Article history: Received 18 July 2011 Available online 6 March 2012 Applying a multiple-mediator model, we examine the mediating effect of three types of career-specific parenting behaviors: lack of engagement, support, and interference, on the relationship between paternal job insecurity and youths' career self-efficacy. Data were collected from a sample of undergraduate students and their fa...

Gatekeeper training is a core strategy of the Garrett Lee Smith Memorial Suicide Prevention Act of 2004. Using data gathered from school-based gatekeeper trainings implemented by GLS grantees, this analysis examines training and gatekeeper factors associated with (1) identification and referral patterns and (2) services at-risk youths receive. Time spent interacting with youths was positively c...

A commitment to physical activity is necessary for personal health, and is a primary goal of physical activity practitioners. Effective practitioners rely on theory and research as a guide to best practices. Thus, sound theory, which is both practical and parsimonious, is a key to effective practice. The purpose of this paper is to review the literature in search of such a theory - one that app...

OBJECTIVE The national shortage of child and adolescent psychiatrists has prompted efforts to improve recruitment. It is uncertain whether these efforts will be sufficient to address this shortage and its impact on youth mental health services. METHOD Data were compared from 1990 to 2001 by state, county characteristics, number of youths, and percentage of youths living in poverty to determin...

AIM To determine how youths obtain tobacco in communities with strong enforcement of tobacco sales laws. SETTING Ten communities in Massachusetts with merchant compliance rates at or above 90%. METHODS Paper surveys and focus group discussions with 68 adolescent smokers. RESULTS Parents and friends are the primary sources of tobacco for new smokers. When stealing from parents can no longe...

Concussion from sport is increasingly recognized as a public health priority. In response, all states and the District of Columbia have enacted youth concussion legislation. This paper first examines key developments in concussion-related policy and legislation and then uses the findings from recent scientific studies to highlight the need to incorporate evolving scientific evidence into concus...

OBJECTIVE To further validate the Child and Adolescent Scale of Environment (CASE). METHODS Baseline data (n = 430) were analyzed from a longitudinal study on quality of life for youth with chronic conditions ages 11-17 in Ontario, Canada. Internal consistency and structure, and convergent and discriminant validity were examined via Cronbach's alpha (α), exploratory factor analyses, correlati...

The acculturation gap-distress model purports that immigrant children acculturate faster than do their parents, resulting in an acculturation gap that leads to family and youth maladjustment. However, empirical support for the acculturation gap-distress model has been inconclusive. In the current study, 428 Mexican-American adolescents (50.2 % female) and their primary caregivers independently ...

OBJECTIVES This article reports the initial findings from a randomized trial to enhance treatment foster care (TFC) in "usual care" agencies. The intervention, Together Facing the Challenge, was built on a combination of practice-based elements from a prior descriptive study of TFC and selected elements from Chamberlain's evidence-based model (multidimensional treatment foster care) to fill con...

PURPOSE This study investigated the feasibility of integrating three diverse methods for studying disabled youth's experiences of activity settings: standardized questionnaires, qualitative methods and physiological measures. The article describes a case study of data collection in a real-life setting to outline the opportunities, challenges and lessons learned for future research. METHODS Th...