Subsequent criminal participation among young people first admitted to psychiatric inpatient care during early and middle adolescence

Transitions in gambling participation during late adolescence and young adulthood.

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to examine transitions in gambling participation from late adolescence into emerging adulthood and to identify factors (i.e., gender, race, intervention status, lunch status, conduct disorder, parental monitoring, neighborhood environment, and substance use) that might influence these transitions. METHODS Markov modeling was used to describe the movement ...

Private inpatient psychiatric care.

A recent leading article on Private In-patient Psychi atric Care by Isaac Marks & Graham Thornicroft ( 1990)generated a flurry of indignant responses from colleagues working in the private sector (White et al, 1990). So far as I could tell, the leader contained neither factual errors nor rash statements yet such discussions always generate an emotive response. I am committed to the concept of a...

Relationship between early diet and subsequent cognitive performance during adolescence.

The possibility that a nutritional stimulus or insult at a critical period of development could have a long-term influence on health, function or achievement is one of uncertainty but one of major importance. A number of investigators have examined the relationship between breastfeeding and childhood cognitive development [ 1-81 and have indicated that breastfed infants may be advantaged in the...

Middle Childhood and Early Adolescence

Promoting the participation of children and young people in care.

OBJECTIVE There are particular reasons why it is important for children and young people in care to have some say in the decisions that are made about their lives. The aim of this paper is to outline these and to review the developments and the research concerning the participation of children in care in processes and decisions that affect them. METHOD This paper reviews the research literatu...