Suicide is the second leading cause of death worldwide for adolescents. Despite decades of
research on correlates and risk factors for adolescent suicide, we know little about why …

Adolescents who experience social anxiety concerns often display symptoms and
impairments when interacting with unfamiliar peers. For adolescent clients, reducing …

Researchers strategically assess youth mental health by soliciting reports from multiple
informants. Typically, these informants (eg, parents, teachers, youth themselves) vary in the …

The current study examined the experience of friendship dissolution among early
adolescents, including the number of friendship dissolutions, the reasons for the dissolution …

Emotional characteristics and processes are robust predictors of the development and
course of major medical illnesses and premature mortality, as are a variety of indicators of …

Social skills and social competence are key transdiagnostic processes in developmental
psychopathology and are the focus of an array of clinical interventions. In this Evidence …

Two studies examine the convergence between measures of friendship and measures of
liking in the assessment of friendship and peer acceptance. In the first study, 551 (301 boys …

Background Herein, we consider the hypothesis that mothers harm peer relations when they
respond to child conduct problems by expressing disapproval of friends, which exacerbates …

This chapter examines how social skills in the behavioral, social-cognitive, and emotional
domains are associated with indicators of social competence during the preschool years …

Winner of th 2023 American Board and Academy of Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic
Psychology (ABAPPP) Annual Award! This book aims to integrate different psychoanalytic …