Judith S Brook

..The findings indicated that assessments of and treatments for substance use should focus on the risky sexual behaviors that seem to accompany illicit drug use...

..The findings suggest that earlier environmental stresses, paternal drug abuse, paternal child-rearing practices, and adolescent vulnerable personality attributes are associated with later adolescent aggression...

..These findings may provide a useful guide to a next step that involves translational research...

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..Regarding prevention and treatment, this study suggests the need to consider aspects of familial and non-familial social environments...

..For those adolescents who never had ADHD, our findings suggest that prevention or treatment aimed at reducing CD may be most successful in reducing daily smoking later in adulthood...

..Interventions are necessary from preadolescence through late adolescence to reduce the numbers of early and late smokers and their specific risks for substance dependence...

..The findings have implications for clinical practice and public policy...

..We specifically focused on parent-child bonding in earlier adolescence and internalizing behaviors in later adolescence and their effects on problems related to substance use in the mid-20s and health problems in the mid-30s...

..Effective smoking prevention programs that begin in childhood are imperative to prevent the occurrence of later health problems...

..Interventions to reduce smoking among Puerto Rican adolescents should focus on multiple contexts, including aspects of the ethnic minority experience...

..The authors suggested implications for future research and interventions...

..The findings suggest the use of specific intervention procedures with adolescents to prevent their subsequent violent behavior...

..To be most effective, smoking prevention programs should address peer group and family influences on adolescent smoking...

..The relationships between smoking behavior and problems with alcohol, marijuana and other illicit drug use were particularly strong. Thus, adolescent smoking seems to have a wide range of clinical implications for young adulthood...

..The long-term impact of unconventional behavior, intrapersonal distress, and drug use on developmental trajectories of smoking support the importance of early intervention and prevention...

..Although causal limitations are noted, it may be that a decrease in smoking during pregnancy is associated with a reduction in aggression in the offspring...

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..When examining the causes of nicotine dependence, it is important to investigate an array of biopsychosocial and environmental factors...

..To determine the association of frequency of illegal drug use with five groups of factors: environmental stressors, parental drug use, parental child rearing, peer drug use, and adolescent personal attributes...

..The findings suggested that interventions designed to decrease youths' substance abuse may increase the likelihood that later when they are parents they will form nurturing relationships with their children...

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..Furthermore, these children may be at risk for other problem behaviors, including legal drug use, and would benefit from interventions which address primarily their personality characteristics, but also their school environments...

..Effective prevention and intervention programs should consider the wide range of adverse physiological and psychosocial outcomes associated with marijuana use over time...

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..The objective of the study was to identify personality, familial, peer, and ecological variables associated with violence in Colombian adolescents...

..This study examined the longitudinal predictors of cigarette smoking in a sample of at-risk adolescents whose fathers were drug abusers (N = 296)...

..The implications for research, prevention, and treatment are discussed...

..To investigate the relationship between early adolescent personal characteristics and the developmental trajectories of marijuana use extending from early adolescence to adulthood...

..This 3-generational model adds to the literature on parent-child relationships (G1), smoking from adolescence to early adulthood (G2), and externalizing behavior in the G3 child...

..Treatment programs for marijuana use should also directly address common adverse life-course outcomes users may already be experiencing...

..CONCLUSIONS: Reducing adolescent drug use may also reduce levels of risky sexual behavior and early pregnancy and vice versa. Furthermore, the importance of addressing violence as a risk factor for both problem behaviors is emphasized...

..Clinical implications include the importance of addressing the mother-child relationship in prevention and treatment programs for comorbid cigarette smoking and marijuana use...

..Both peer deviance and partner's illicit drug use had the greatest effects on SUDs. The findings should aid in formulating prevention and treatment programs targeting specific risk factors in adolescents, young adults, and adults...

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..Ecological factors were also mediated by peer influences and directly linked with adolescent aggression...

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..Policy and clinical implications suggest the importance of increasing educational opportunities for all parents by providing substance use treatment and self-esteem workshops...

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..If intervention occurs at a later time point, the emphasis should be on increasing ethnic identity and decreasing antisocial behavior. (Am J Addict 2010;00:1-9)...

..Data from a community-based longitudinal study were used to investigate the association between childhood adversities, interpersonal difficulties during adolescence, and suicide attempts during late adolescence or early adulthood...

..This study examined the relative impact of familial and non-familial smoking on participant smoking and nicotine dependence...

..g., depressive symptoms) as mediated by a healthy lifestyle (engaging in exercise, eating healthful foods, and sleeping enough) and cigarette smoking among a sample of urban Black and Puerto Rican Americans...

..This is a longitudinal study of the precursors of sexual risk behavior among a cohort of adolescent children of HIV-positive and HIV-negative drug-abusing or drug-dependent fathers...

..Similarities among the ecological predictors of adolescents' marijuana use in three samples, across time and place, allow a more universal approach to the prevention of substance use...

..To investigate the association of television viewing with educational and intellectual outcomes during adolescence and early adulthood...

..Preventive implications stem from the importance of studying a range of psychiatric disorders in the context of substance use assessed over a wide age range...

..Moreover, if a father is a drug abuser, it is important to help him establish a close bond with his child in order to help attenuate the influence of his drug use on the child's marijuana use...

..This association remained significant after previous aggressive behavior, childhood neglect, family income, neighborhood violence, parental education, and psychiatric disorders were controlled statistically...

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..The results point to several clinical implications for treatment of both cigarette smoking and depressive symptoms among both adolescents and young adults...

..To investigate the association of dissociative disorder (DD) with impaired functioning and co-occurring Axis I and personality disorders among adults in the community...

..Maladaptive parental behavior appears to be an important mediator of the association between parental and offspring psychiatric symptoms...

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..Although research has suggested that extensive television viewing may be associated with sleep problems, the direction of this association has not yet been determined...

..Findings suggest that parents' and adolescents' alcohol use should be a focus in interventions designed to prevent or treat psychological symptoms in late adolescence and young adulthood. ..

..Data from a community-based longitudinal investigation were used to investigate whether adolescents with eating disorders are at an elevated risk for physical and mental disorders during early adulthood...

..Unlike other self-report scales, the CIC-SR did not appear to overestimate diagnoses when compared with SCID-II clinical diagnoses...

..Implications for the prevention of insecure and dependent behavior in toddlers are discussed...

..The current article investigates the association of personality disorder (PD) with the subsequent development of eating and weight problems...

..Treatment programs to prevent antisocial behavior across the life course should include a component to address earlier and concurrent marijuana use...

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..The findings also suggest that prevention programs designed specifically to target ecological or cultural factors may have the most profound influence for reducing marijuana use in late adolescence...

..Clinical implications suggest the importance of providing appropriate prevention and intervention for people with internalizing behaviors, impulsivity, and greater than recommended Body Mass Index...

..There was also a direct effect of peer influences on adolescent drinking. Findings extend the literature on the specific mechanisms which link parental substance use with adolescent alcohol use in a high-risk population...

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..Findings of this study suggest that some types of PD traits that become evident by early adulthood may contribute to increased risk for the development of anxiety disorders by middle adulthood...

..The findings of this study suggest that some types of PD traits that become evident by early adulthood may contribute to an increased risk for the development or recurrence of unipolar depressive disorders by middle adulthood...

..This study identifies several points in the biopsychosocial pathways in adolescence leading to later health problems in young adulthood...

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..Moreover, analysis using a risk factor index indicated an exponential increase in adolescent maladaptive coping with each additional psychosocial risk. Implications for policy and intervention are also discussed...

..These findings bear out the disparate dimensions of nicotine dependence each measure taps. Research and clinical implications of the findings are discussed, and the study's limitations are noted...

..A community-based prospective longitudinal study was conducted to investigate the association between childhood adversities and problems with eating or weight during adolescence and early adulthood...

..Similar findings have been shown in previous research with U.S. adolescents. The findings suggest that early adolescent marijuana use is associated with an increase in problem behavior during later adolescence...

..To examine the extent to which personality and peer factors mediate the relationship between early cigarette use and later illicit drug use, as well as associated drug use problems, in a population of Colombian adolescents...

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..We examined the pathways to smoking cessation between late adolescence and young adulthood...

..The goal of this study is to determine the association between panic attacks in adolescence and the risk of personality disorders during young adulthood...

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..The most powerful predictor of offspring smoking in adulthood was smoking in late adolescence. Findings imply areas that may be targeted by intervention programs to decrease offspring tobacco use...

..However, this association with generalized anxiety disorder was limited to females. CONCLUSIONS: Life events in adolescence predict risk for major depression during early adulthood...

..Victimisation prevention programmes in South Africa should be comprehensive and target adolescents' drug use as well as their other psychosocial risk factors...

..In psychiatric nosology, a distinction is made between chronic and episodic irritability. This study examines the validity of this distinction...

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..Findings will help physicians, educators, and policy makers provide healthy environments. ..