OBJECTIVE The purpose of the current study was to evaluate the frequency of co-occurring attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms in a well-defined cohort of children with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) and to examine the relationship between ADHD symptoms and both adaptive functioning and health-related quality of life as reported by parents or other primary caregivers. MET...

OBJECTIVE This study examined the reliability and validity of the Korean version of the Child Sexual Behavior Inventory (CSBI) in Korean children aged from 6 to 12 years old and the suitability of and potential for clinical application of the CSBI in Korean population. METHODS The participants consisted of 158 typically growing children and 122 sexually abused children. The subjects were eval...

In this article, the authors investigated the effect of maternal smoking during pregnancy on behavioral problems, which were not mediated by lower birth weight, in offspring at 3 y of age. The authors used the Child Behavior Checklist for ages 2-3 y (CBCL/2-3; Achenbach, Edelbrock and Howell) to assess behavioral problems in 1,377 2- to 3-y-old healthy twin pairs. Soon after the birth of twins,...

The main goal of this commentary is to provide a brief checklist proposal for a possible second meeting with the patient, particularly when prescriptions and therapeutic indications provided in the first meeting were not totally or partially followed. In the second meeting please ask yourself the following question: “Where was my behavior lacking in the first meeting? In the “relationship,” “co...

The purpose of the present study was to identify the mediating effects of emotion regulation on the association between cumulative childhood trauma and behavior problems in sexually abused children in Korea, using structural equation modeling (SEM). Data were collected on 171 children (ages 6-13 years) referred to a public counseling center for sexual abuse in Seoul, Korea. Cumulative childhood...

BACKGROUND The behaviours of non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) and deliberate self-harm (DSH) are prevalent among adolescents, and an increase of rates in recent years has been postulated. There is a lack of studies to support this postulation, and comparing prevalence across studies and nations is complicated due to substantial differences in the methodology and nomenclature of existing research...

BACKGROUND Family therapy and family-based treatment has been commonly applied in children and adolescents in mental health care and has been proven to be effective. There is an increased interest in economic evaluations of these, often expensive, interventions. The aim of this systematic review is to summarize and evaluate the evidence on cost-effectiveness of family/family-based therapy for e...

BEHAVIORAL SAFETY has many advocates and many critics.Advocates have seen or experienced the effects of a well-designed process on incident rates (Cooper, 2003; Lyon, 2001; Veazie, 1999). Conversely, critics do not believe it truly involves workers in the overall safety process (Howe, 1998) and believe the concept has run its course (Naso, 2002). The promotion of operant theory (Skinner, 1953) ...

OBJECTIVES: The objective of this study was to document the psychological adjustment of adolescents who were conceived through donor insemination by lesbian mothers who enrolled before these offspring were born in the largest, longest running, prospective, longitudinal study of same-sex–parented families. METHODS: Between 1986 and 1992, 154 prospective lesbian mothers volunteered for a study th...

BACKGROUND Research needs to be reported transparently so readers can critically assess the strengths and weaknesses of the design, conduct, and analysis of studies. Reporting guidelines have been developed to inform reporting for a variety of study designs. The objective of this study was to identify whether there is a need to develop a reporting guideline for survey research. METHODS AND FI...