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Edwards, Oliver W. – Contemporary School Psychology, 2016
Empirical research investigating the growing population of children raised by grandparents remains sparse. Much of the research examines the grandparents' functioning and suggests that they experience heightened psychosocial distress. Although the children are reported to manifest psychosocial and behavioral difficulty, a dearth of empirical…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Bullying, Child Rearing, Health Behavior
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Giannotta, Fabrizia; Ortega, Enrique; Stattin, Hakan – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2013
Background: In spite of the proven effectiveness of parenting based programs to prevent adolescent risk behaviors, such programs are rarely implemented in Mediterranean countries. Objective: This pilot study was aimed at assessing the feasibility and the effects of a parenting based universal prevention program (Connect) in Italy. Methods: Our…
Descriptors: Intervention, Adolescents, Drinking, Foreign Countries
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Rodgers, Kathleen Boyce; McGuire, Jenifer K. – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2012
In this study we estimated the combined effects of violence experiences, parenting processes, and community poverty on sexual onset, alcohol or other drug (AOD) use at last sex, multiple sex partners, and prior pregnancy in a sample of 7th-, 9th-, and 11th-grade adolescents (n = 7,891), and the subsample of sexually experienced adolescents (n =…
Descriptors: Pregnancy, Prevention, Adolescents, Child Rearing