Preparation of socially maladjusted youth located in youth educational centres for self-sufficient living

Mental Health and Self-Worth in Socially Transitioned Transgender Youth.

OBJECTIVE Social transitions are increasingly common for transgender children. A social transition involves a child presenting to other people as a member of the "opposite" gender in all contexts (e.g., wearing clothes and using pronouns of that gender). Little is known about the well-being of socially transitioned transgender children. This study examined self-reported depression, anxiety, and...

Completed suicides in a youth centres population.

OBJECTIVE From 1995 to 2000, 422 youths, aged 18 years and under, died as a result of suicide in Quebec. More than one-third had received services from youth centres (YCs) at some point. This study sought to characterize a sample of those youths to improve services for this at-risk population. METHOD From a retrospective study of YCs and coroner's office files, we investigated the clinical fe...

Presentation of the Development Pattern for Cultural Centers Studied on Youth Educational Centers in Mazandaran Province

The purpose of this study was to determine the constitution of the development model for cultural centers studied in Mazandaran Province. The basic elements of the eight developmental patterns for youth cultural centers in Mazandaran province which include religion, employment, national education, research, health, technology and communication show that the fundamental components of eight devel...

Self Portrait of Youth

Treatment outcome for street-living, homeless youth.

Comprehensive intervention for homeless, street living youth that addresses substance use, social stability, physical and mental health issues has received very little attention. In this study, street living youth aged 14-22 were recruited from a drop-in center and randomly assigned to the Community Reinforcement Approach (CRA) or treatment as usual (TAU) through a drop-in center. Findings show...