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Treatment Participation Among Children With Conduct Problems And The Role Of Telephone Reminders, Bruce Watt, Margaret Hoyland, Denisse Best, Mark Dadds
Treatment Participation Among Children With Conduct Problems And The Role Of Telephone Reminders, Bruce Watt, Margaret Hoyland, Denisse Best, Mark Dadds
Bruce Watt
Children with antisocial, aggressive and disruptive behaviour problems are among the most frequent referrals to mental health services. These young people and their families present with a range of adverse contextual factors and can prove challenging to engage. We examined the characteristics of children with conduct problems, treatment participation, and the impact of telephone reminder calls. Consecutive referrals (N=262) to two child and youth mental health services were randomly assigned to either a reminder call condition or service as usual. In comparison to referrals without conduct problems, conduct problem children presented with greater sources of psychosocial adversity, attended fewer initial …
Toward A Conceptual Framework Of Instrumental Antisocial Decision-Making And Behavior In Youth, Reid G. Fontaine
Toward A Conceptual Framework Of Instrumental Antisocial Decision-Making And Behavior In Youth, Reid G. Fontaine
Reid G. Fontaine
This paper reviews and organizes relevant theory and research toward a conceptual framework of instrumental antisocial decision-making and behavior in youth. To date, social cognitive study of the development of youth antisocial functioning has largely focused on response patterns (e.g., cognitive responses to aversive cues). Though instrumental decision making is paid significant attention in research on adult criminality, there exists no framework by which youths' goal-driven behavioral decisions that are made in pursuit of antisocial motives and interests may be understood. This is a problem in that lessons from research on children and adolescents suggest that there are meaningful differences …
Mummy Do I Look Fat In This?, Peta Stapleton, Terri Sheldon
Mummy Do I Look Fat In This?, Peta Stapleton, Terri Sheldon
Peta B. Stapleton
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