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Buskirk-Cohen, Allison – Forum on Public Policy Online, 2012
As children move into adolescence, two important and contradictory changes regarding peer groups and psychopathology occur. While friendships become characterized more by emotional support than they did in earlier years (especially so for girls), rates for internalizing disorders, particularly depression, increase (again, especially so for…
Descriptors: Psychopathology, Females, Depression (Psychology), Males
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Gries, Leonard T.; Goh, David S.; Andrews, Mary Beth; Gilbert, Jeri; Praver, Frances; Stelzer, Dalia Naierman – Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 2000
Investigates factors associated with improvement in the behavioral-emotional functioning of sexually abused children, from 6 to 18 years of age. Findings show that children in an actively disclosing stage exhibited significantly less externalizing behavior problems. Children receiving full support from foster parents showed significantly lower…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Child Abuse, Children, Emotional Adjustment