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Liace, Lisa K.; Nunez, Jessica B.; Luckner, Amy E. – Communique, 2011
Teenage sexual activity has arguably received more attention in the national media as of late than ever before. One is inundated with information concerning everything from alarming rises in the incidence and prevalence rates of sexually transmitted infections in adolescents and young adults to the latest round of suspensions (or even arrests)…
Descriptors: Incidence, School Psychologists, Pregnancy, Adolescents
Wadsworth, Martha E.; Raviv, Tali; Reinhard, Christine; Wolff, Brian; Santiago, Catherine DeCarlo; Einhorn, Lindsey – Journal of Loss and Trauma, 2008
The authors tested a theoretical model positing that poverty has an indirect effect on child and adolescent functioning through children's poverty-related stress. Path analyses with a multiethnic sample of 164 children aged 6 to 18 revealed that the stress associated with poverty, such as economic strain, family conflict, violence/trauma, and…
Descriptors: Legal Problems, Substance Abuse, Poverty, Dropouts