This study assesses the acceptability and efficacy of a school - based universal mindfulness
intervention for youth aged 12 - 16.
Not exact matches
Therapeutic Behavioral Services (TBS) is an intensive individualized, one - on - one, short - term
intervention for youth up to
age 21 who experience serious emotional / behavioral challenges.
We then go in - depth on
interventions that promote social belonging
for youth of all
ages.
Until child and
youth care recognizes that it has a unique configuration of knowledge and skills to meet the developmental needs
for caregiving and
intervention of human beings of all
ages, it will not be a profession.
Yet, in an
age when parenting is less available, when marriage has almost become a thing of the past, and when children are being turned into commodity machines, it may make sense to reflect, as Plotz (1999) pointed out, that America is obsessed with
youth because corporations are obsessed with
youth: early
intervention means netting an eager consumer audience
for life.
Several studies have examined the efficacy of
interventions for conduct disorder and delinquency in children and adolescents.1 The systematic review by Woolfenden et al is timely as it is the first quantitative synthesis of preventive
interventions targeted at
youths aged 10 — 17 years.
Treatment needs to be targeted at major modifiable risk factors and its outcome measured objectively.26 It should preferably be at an early
age as conduct disorder can be reliably detected early, 5 has high continuity, 27 is amenable to treatment at a young
age, 4 and is very hard to eradicate in older children.28 In this section I discuss
interventions for general aggressiveness only in children under 12;
interventions targeting
youth crime have been excellently reviewed by Farrington.29
Brief Strategic Family Therapy ® (BSFT ®) is a culturally - competent family therapy
intervention for children and adolescents
ages 6 to 18 years, who exhibit behavior problems including but not exclusive to substance abuse, associations with antisocial peers, bullying, truancy, and other recognized
youth risk factors.
It evaluates how parental anxiety predicted change in pediatric anxiety symptoms across four different
interventions: Coping Cat [now called C.A.T. Project
for youth aged 12 - 18], medication (sertraline; SRT), their combination (COMB), and pill placebo (PBO).
METHODS: Participants were 186 minority
youth at risk
for behavior problems who enrolled in long - term follow - up studies after random assignment to family
intervention or control condition at
age 4.
The Aboriginal Child,
Youth and Family Strategy is a population based prevention and early
intervention strategy
for Aboriginal children
aged 0 — 5 years and their families.