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Chahar Mahali, Saghar; Beshai, Shadi; Wolfe, Whitney L. – Journal of American College Health, 2021
Objective: Depression and anxiety are major concerns among students. Unfortunately, there are disparities between the mental health of majority culture students (White; Judeo-Christian) and that of Indigenous students. Although mindfulness, self-compassion, and reappraisal are correlated with symptoms of psychopathology among White students, these…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Daily Living Skills, Correlation, American Indian Students
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Batten, Lisa A.; Hernandez, Mariely; Pilowsky, Daniel J.; Stewart, Jonathan W.; Blier, Pierre; Flament, Martine F.; Poh, Ernest; Wickramaratne, Priya; Weissman, Myrna M. – Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 2012
Objective: To estimate the prevalence of current psychiatric disorders among children and adolescents (collectively called children) of mothers entering treatment for depression; to examine maternal predictors of child psychopathology among children of depressed mothers; and to determine consistency of findings with a similar child study ancillary…
Descriptors: Psychopathology, Eligibility, Anxiety Disorders, Depression (Psychology)
Dettweiler, Ulrich – Pathways: The Ontario Journal of Outdoor Education, 2012
Recent empirical research on outdoor education programs describes adjustment symptoms that instructors suffer from after the programs have come to an end. Post-course effects are also documented for students, but those are normally scientifically coded in measured changes in "skills" or "learning effects." In this paper, the…
Descriptors: Adventure Education, Emotional Adjustment, Outdoor Education, Symptoms (Individual Disorders)
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Welsh, Jennifer L.; Schmidt, Fred; McKinnon, Lauren; Chattha, H. K.; Meyers, Joanna R. – Assessment, 2008
Promising new adolescent risk assessment tools are being incorporated into clinical practice but currently possess limited evidence of predictive validity regarding their individual and/or combined use in risk assessments. The current study compares three structured adolescent risk instruments, Youth Level of Service/Case Management Inventory…
Descriptors: Recidivism, Predictive Validity, Risk, Program Effectiveness
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Schachar, Russell; Logan, Gordon D. – Developmental Psychology, 1990
Investigated the development and pathology of inhibitory control in children by means of the stop-signal paradigm, which measures the mechanism of inhibition. Findings confirm the predictions of the model of inhibitory control on which the stop-signal paradigm is based and reflect the utility of the paradigm as a measure of inhibitory control. (RH)
Descriptors: Children, Comparative Analysis, Conceptual Tempo, Foreign Countries
Sakinofsky, Isaac – 1988
Few follow-up studies of parasuicides in the literature focus on changes in underlying psychopathology. This study compared a group of parasuicides who mastered their presenting problems within 3 months after the key episode with a group who had not and examined some of the underlying psychopathology and its relationship to repetition of suicidal…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Behavior Patterns, Comparative Analysis, Followup Studies
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Hare, Robert D.; And Others – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1988
Examined criminal histories of male psychopaths and nonpsychopaths, exploring time in prison and conviction rates for five-year periods between ages of 16 and 45. Criminal activities of nonpsychopaths were relatively constant over years; activities of psychopaths remained high until around age 40, then declined dramatically. Results are consistent…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Burnout, Comparative Analysis, Crime