Discrepancies among informants' ratings of child psychopathology have important
implications for diagnosis, assessment, and treatment. Typically, parents and children …

This article reports a meta-analysis on social skills training as a measure for preventing
antisocial behavior in children and youth. From 851 documents, 84 reports containing 135 …

Conduct problems in children and adolescents constitute a broad range of “acting-out”
behaviors, ranging from annoying but relatively minor oppositional behaviors (such as …

Exposure to stress is associated with a wide range of internalizing and externalizing
problems in adolescents, including aggressive behavior. Extant research examining …

Studies have consistently shown higher rates of offending for males than for females, and
especially higher rates of violence. Gender differences in the development of social …

The search for ways to prevent juvenile crime in the United States has become a matter of
national urgency, as the incidence of serious offenses continues to rise. Most prevention …

As reflected in the title, the purpose of this book is to guide clinicians in understanding and
treating youth with severe antisocial behavior. Children and adolescents with conduct …

Antisocial behavior in childhood and adolescence is an unquestionably serious problem for
society. Family-based treatments are promising but face the challenging obstacle of …

Many programs designed for children and youth with emotional or behavioral disorders
(EBD) include a social skill training component. Using quantitative methods of meta …

This study evaluates the effects of an indicated preventive intervention and a universal
preventive intervention. Children were identified as being at risk on the basis of 4th-grade …