Parent-child sexual health communication has been shown to protect against adolescent sexual risk-taking behavior. Parent knowledge of adolescent sexual experience can inform timing and content of conversations; however, little is known about factors associated with such knowledge. To investigate this question, parent-child dyads (N = 942) from a U.S. nationally-representative internet panel we...

Part 1 of this two-part consideration of child and adolescent psychopharmacology focused on attention–deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), depression and bipolar disorder (Coghill, 2003). This second paper concentrates on current pharmacological approaches to the treatment of anxiety disorders, obsessive–compulsive disorders, autism, Tourette syndrome and schizophrenia. The aim is to describe...

1 Cardiovascular Research Center, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom, 2 Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, United Kingdom, 3 ErasmusMC-Sophia, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry/Psychology, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 4 Research Institute of Child Development and Education, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 5 Department Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Academic...

this study is aimed at comparing life expectancy, resilience and differentiation between adolescents of single-child and multi-child families living in khorramabad, iran. this is a causal-comparative study and the statistical population consisted of all the male and female adolescent students in the middle and high schools of khorramabad in the academic year 2015-2016. the sample included 150 s...

Jaqueline Wendland, Psychopathology and Health Processes Laboratory, Paris Descartes University; Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Piti e-Salpêtri ere Hospital Julie Brisson and Melania Medeiros, Psychopathology and Health Processes Laboratory, Paris Descartes University Laurence Camon-S en echal, Elisabeth Aidane, and Mich ele David, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, ...

1 Neuroimaging Laboratory, Santa Lucia Foundation, Rome, Italy, 2 Stress Physiology Lab, Department of Chemistry, Life Sciences and Environmental Sustainability, University of Parma, Parma, Italy, 3 Section for Translational Psychobiology in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Centre for Psychosocial Medicine, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Ger...