Focus on Children With Behavior Problems

Sleep Problems and Aggressive Behavior in Children with ADHD

Objective: Aggression is a disruptive behavior that limits children’s ability for a better adjustment. As commonly reported, sleep problems is associated with the presentation of aggression in ADHD children. In this study, we aimed to investigate the association between sleep problems and aggressive behavior in children with ADHD.  Methods: The study method is correlational and cross-section...

Children with Sexual Behavior Problems:

Children and adolescents with sexual behavior problems.

Youth with substantial sexual behavior problems (n = 166) were compared with youth from the same sample with few sexual behavior problems (n = 413) and with no sexual behavior problems (n = 943). It was hypothesized that youth with significant sexual behavior problems would be characterized by higher rates of sexual and physical abuse and higher rates of internalizing problems relative to youth...

sleep problems and aggressive behavior in children with adhd

objective: aggression is a disruptive behavior that limits children’s ability for a better adjustment. as commonly reported, sleep problems is associated with the presentation of aggression in adhd children. in this study, we aimed to investigate the association between sleep problems and aggressive behavior in children with adhd.  methods: the study method is correlational and cross-sectional....

Behavior problems in children with diabetes: disentangling possible scoring confounds on the Child Behavior Checklist.

OBJECTIVE The Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL; T. M. Achenbach, 1991), when used to assess the behavior of children with diabetes, may contain confounds because some behavioral items can have a physiologic etiology, and may skew reports of behavioral disturbance. METHODS Two techniques were used to disentangle possible scoring confounds in the behavioral ratings of children with and without di...