Adolescent Psychology
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Saturday, November 07, 2009

Alcohol expectancies among high school students in Inner Mongolia, China.

29 Sep 2009 OBJECTIVE: This study examines differences in Chinese high school students' alcohol expectancies by drinking status (nondrinker, occasional drinker, regular drinker) and gender (male, female). METHOD: The authors administered the Chinese Adolescent ... Read more...

Long-term risk preference and suboptimal decision making following adolescent alcohol use.

19 Sep 2009 Individuals who abused alcohol at an early age show decision-making impairments. However, the question of whether maladaptive choice constitutes a predisposing factor to, or a consequence resulting from, alcohol exposure remains open. To examine ... Read more...

Adolescent coping across time: implications for psychiatric mental health nurses.

30 Aug 2009 This article compares rural adolescents' coping responses before and after the behavioral intervention Teaching Kids to Cope with Anger (TKC-A). A quasi-experimental design was used, that included 94 (intervention) and 85 (control) students who were ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Adolescent Psychology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• [Adolescents from here versus from other places] 29 Sep 2009
• [Setting limits without producing violence in adolescents] 29 Sep 2009
• Alcohol expectancies among high school students in Inner Mongolia, China. 29 Sep 2009
• Long-term risk preference and suboptimal decision making following adolescent alcohol use. 19 Sep 2009
• Adolescent coping across time: implications for psychiatric mental health nurses. 30 Aug 2009
• Depression screening in adolescents. 30 Aug 2009
• Cumulative risk and AIDS-orphanhood: interactions of stigma, bullying and poverty on child mental health in South Africa. 23 Aug 2009
• [Family treatment in schizophrenic adolescents - correlation between symptom state and relationship quality] 15 Aug 2009
• Online social networks and wellbeing. 13 Aug 2009
• Parental mediation, online activities, and cyberbullying. 30 Jul 2009
• Balance across contexts: importance of balanced need satisfaction across various life domains. 30 Jul 2009
• [Adapting communication to the hospitalized child or adolescent] 30 Jul 2009
• Adolescents and dating violence. 30 Jul 2009
• Motives for nonmedical use of prescription opioids among high school seniors in the United States: self-treatment and beyond. 30 Jul 2009
• A school-based program to prevent adolescent dating violence: a cluster randomized trial. 30 Jul 2009
• Body image of children and adolescents with cancer: A systematic review. 23 Jul 2009
• Resilience and marginalized youth: making a case for personal and collective meaning-making as part of resilience research in public health. 8 Jul 2009
• The health and well being of adolescents in the United States, 2009. 29 Jun 2009
• Food that makes you different: the stigma experienced by adolescents with celiac disease. 29 Jun 2009
• Transition for adolescents with long-term conditions: event to process. 29 Jun 2009

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Technical information about 'Adolescent Psychology'

Definition: Field of psychology concerned with the normal and abnormal behavior of adolescents. It includes mental processes as well as observable responses.

Descriptor UI: D000297

Alternative terms: Adolescent Psychology; Psychology, Adolescent;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; education; history; instrumentation; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; methods; organization & administration; standards; trends; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: F04.096.628.065;

History Note: 67

Technical Notes: SPEC but also the way a normal adolescent thinks & acts; when SPEC, SPEC qualif; Manual 27.11; DF: ADOLESCENT PSYCHOL