Background Depression is common in young people. It has a marked negative impact and is
associated with self‐harm and suicide. Preventing its onset would be an important advance …

This report calls on the nation—its leaders, its mental health research and service provision
agencies, its schools, its primary care medical systems, its community-based organizations …

There is considerable interest in using propensity score (PS) statistical techniques to
address questions of causal inference in psychological research. Many PS techniques exist …

The self-medication hypothesis of addictive disorders derives primarily from clinical
observations of patients with substance use disorders. Individuals discover that the specific …

Background: School readiness, conceptualized as three components including emotional
self‐regulation, social competence, and family/school involvement, as well as absence of …

Detailed and comprehensive, this volume presents authoritative discussions by leading
scholars on issues surrounding serious and violent juvenile offenders. This population is …

Was unterscheidet die psychische Gestaltung der Kinder von jener der Jugendlichen? Was
sind optimale Umwelten für eine produktive Adoleszenz? Wie können Lehrer, Eltern und …

I don't know why they don't like me. I've tried everything I know how to do, but they won't
leave me alone and they won't be my friend. They call me “stinky” and I tell them to stop it …

Humans possess great capacity for behavioral and cultural change, but our ability to
manage change is still limited. This article has two major objectives: first, to sketch a basic …

Epidemiological surveys have provided key information about the prevalence and degree of
seriousness at different ages of a wide array of problem behaviors such as delinquency …