aim and background: anxiety is a common psychiatric problem among adolescents. the present study was carried out to examine the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral group therapy (cbgt) based on kendall’s coping cat model on reducing anxiety among female adolescent students of khorram abad. methods and materials: this was an experimental study with a one-month follow-up period. it used simple ...

It is imperative that appropriate care of hospitalizd adolescents be included in the planning of health care services at local, regional, and national levels. The Society for Adolescent Medicine advocates the continuation and establishment of adolescent medicine inpatient units in both pediatric and general hospitals as an optimal approach to the delivery of developmentally appropriate health c...

Adolescent transsexuals were compared with adolescent psychiatric outpatients and first-year university students to determine the extent to which other psychopathology is a necessary condition for the development of transsexualism. Three areas of psychological functioning associated with fundamental psychological disturbances--perceptual inaccuracy, disorders of thought and negative self-image-...

The present study examined the relationship among acculturation, familismo, and HIV-related adolescent sexual risk behavior. Data were collected from Latino mother-adolescent dyads to permit parent and adolescent analyses of familismo for predicting oral, vaginal, and anal sexual behaviors. A random sample of 702 Latino eighth-grade students and their mothers was recruited from New York City. T...

Purpose – The study investigated dimensions related to the gender role and identity perceptions of adolescent girls in Hong Kong. A typology based on the dimensions was developed and its ability to predict brand relationship variables was examined. Design/methodology/approach – A convenience sample of 355 Hong Kong female secondary school students aged 12 to 19 were asked to answer questions ab...

AIM In this experimental study, we made an attempt to explore the approach and method to improve the legal cognition and family legal education level for adolescent parents. METHODS 10 parents of students of grade two in a middle school of Chongqing in China were provided with group consulting and training. We adopted action research method to make overall assessment on the needs, execution a...

objective: assessment of social skills is a necessary requirement to develop and evaluate the effectiveness of cognitive and behavioral interventions. this paper reports the cultural adaptation and psychometric properties of the farsi version of the social skills rating system-secondary students form (ssrs-ss) questionnaire (gresham and elliot, 1990), in a normative sample of secondary school s...

This study examined differences between deaf and hearing students' perceptions of their social emotional adjustment as they transition to college. The 16PF-Adolescent Personality Questionnaire Life Difficulties Scale was completed by 205 deaf students and 185 hearing students. A multivariate analyses of variance and subsequent univariate tests found that deaf students rated themselves as experi...

Recent research has highlighted the presence of Young's Early Maladaptive Schemas (EMSs) in individuals with an eating disorder (ED). This study assessed the EMSs reported by adolescent females with Anorexia Nervosa (AN) compared with a community group. Thirty-six adolescent females diagnosed with AN or subthreshold AN and 111 female secondary school students completed a questionnaire that incl...