background drug abuse in juveniles is one of the most serious problems which lead to different physical, social and educational damages and outcomes. objectives the aim of the present study is to predict the addiction potential in youths by their early maladaptive schemas. materials and methods the research sample included students of the university of sistan and baluchistan, zahedan, iran, wit...

Problems to be addressed: Every year approximately 100,000 youths under the age of 18 are admitted to adult jails across the country. These youths are in extreme danger. Many children are placed in solitary confinement which can cause anxiety, paranoia, and exacerbate existing mental disorders putting youths at increased risk of suicide. Youths housed in adult jails are 36 times more likely to ...

The study compared the attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) related clinical symptoms and a wide-ranging attention performance in 216 youths with autistic disorder (autism), 138 youths with Asperger’s disorder (AD) and 255 typically-developing youths. The diagnosis of autism and AD were made based on the clinical assessments according to the DSM-IV criteria and confirmed by the Autis...

Moral deviation and delinquency in the youth life do not appear in one form and have different and diverse meanings and concepts. Not only criminal or guilty youth are the ones who propel the society to continuous thinking and planning and trying for their readjustment to the society, but also there are many youths who have not done any guilt but are exposed to the danger of moral deviation. S...

OBJECTIVE This study was undertaken to evaluate the efficacy of a skills-based CD-ROM intervention, with and without a parent component, to reduce alcohol use among urban youth at 6-year follow-up. METHOD At recruitment, 513 youths with a mean age of 10.8 years were randomly assigned to one of three study arms: youth CD-ROM intervention plus parent component, youth CD-ROM intervention only, o...

conclusions as the results of this study show, different factors contribute to different driving behaviors and accidents. the broad scope of these factors links accidents to other social issues and damages. results the findings indicated that in the psychosocial model of driving behavior (including lapses, mistakes, and intentional violations) and accidents, psychological factors, depression (p...

Most mentoring programs target at-risk youth, but programs for those already adjudicated in the juvenile justice system have been less extensively studied. We examined the referral process, rates of program completion and recidivism for 97 mentored and 287 non-mentored youth on probation in a large, urban, Hispanicdominated county. Youth who were referred to mentoring were already showing a pat...