Adolescence (12-18 years)

Marital problems have been related to numerous indexes of maladjustment in children.

This study assessed the sleep patterns, sleep disruptions, and sleepiness of school-age children.

Meta-analysis involved 92 studies that compared children living in divorced single-parent families with children living in continuously intact families on measures of well-being.

The primary purposes of the present study were to survey the prevalence of sleep problems in school-aged children and to examine these associations with parental perception of sleep problems, medical history

It has been suggested that the mental health of schoolchildren can be undermined by repeated bullying at school and further exacerbated by having inadequate social support.

Research on the prevention of depressive symptoms in children and adolescents was reviewed and synthesized with meta-analysis.

Elementary school students (n = 330) and their parents (n = 228) participated in a 3-year longitudinal study of the temporal relation between anxiety and depressive symptoms in children.

Reviewed 60 studies of depressive symptoms among children and adolescents with chronic medical problems.

Families, as social systems, can be considered “resilient” in ways that parallel descriptions of individual resilience.

Fathers have been neglected in investigations of the development, prevention, and treatment of anxiety and anxiety disorders in children and adolescents.