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| Leslie B WhitbeckSummaryAffiliation: University of Nebraska Country: USA Publications
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Perceived discrimination, traditional practices, and depressive symptoms among American Indians in the upper midwestLes B Whitbeck
Department of Sociology, 739 Oldfather Hall, University of Nebraska Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska 68588 0324, USA
J Health Soc Behav 43:400-18. 2002..Moreover, interaction effects between perceived discrimination and traditional practices indicate that engaging in traditional practices buffers the negative effects of discrimination among those who regularly participate in them...- Conceptualizing and measuring historical trauma among American Indian peopleLes B Whitbeck
Department of Sociology, University of Nebraska Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska 68588 0324, USA
Am J Community Psychol 33:119-30. 2004..The results are discussed in terms of future research and theory pertaining to historical trauma among American Indian people... 
Diagnostic prevalence rates from early to mid-adolescence among indigenous adolescents: first results from a longitudinal studyLes B Whitbeck
Department of Sociology, University of Nebraska, 739 Oldfather Hall, Lincoln, NE 68588 0324, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 47:890-900. 2008..Investigate change in prevalence rates for mental and substance abuse disorders between early and mid-adolescence among a cohort of indigenous adolescents...
Substance abuse prevention in American Indian and Alaska Native communitiesLes B Whitbeck
Department of Sociology, University of Nebraska Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, USA
Am J Drug Alcohol Abuse 38:428-35. 2012....- Correlates of homeless episodes among indigenous peopleLes B Whitbeck
Department of Sociology, University of Nebraska Lincoln, 739 Oldfather Hall, Lincoln, NE 68588 0324, USA
Am J Community Psychol 49:156-67. 2012..Family adversity during childhood was also common for women experiencing homelessness during the study... - Perceived discrimination and early substance abuse among American Indian childrenL B Whitbeck
University of Nebraska Lincoln, Department of Sociology, 739 Oldfather Hall, Lincoln, NE 68588 0324, USA
J Health Soc Behav 42:405-24. 2001..The results are discussed in terms of the consequences of perceived discrimination on the development of American Indian early adolescents... - Food insecurity among homeless and runaway adolescentsLes B Whitbeck
University of Nebraska Lincoln, Department of Sociology, 68588 0324, USA
Public Health Nutr 9:47-52. 2006..The purpose of this study was to investigate the prevalence of food insecurity and factors related to it among homeless and runaway adolescents... - Mental disorder, subsistence strategies, and victimization among gay, lesbian, and bisexual homeless and runaway adolescentsLes B Whitbeck
University of Nebraska Lincoln, Department of Sociology, 730 Oldfather Hall, Lincoln, NE 68588 0324, USA
J Sex Res 41:329-42. 2004.... - Discrimination, historical loss and enculturation: culturally specific risk and resiliency factors for alcohol abuse among American IndiansB Les Whitbeck
Department of Sociology, University of Nebraska Lincoln, 739 Oldfather Hall, Lincoln, Nebraska 68588 0324, USA
J Stud Alcohol 65:409-18. 2004..We also hypothesize that enculturation will be negatively associated with 12-month alcohol abuse and mediate or moderate the effects of discrimination... - Mental disorder and comorbidity among runaway and homeless adolescentsLes B Whitbeck
Department of Sociology, University of Nebraska Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
J Adolesc Health 35:132-40. 2004..To investigate prevalence of mental disorder and comorbidity among homeless and runaway adolescents in small to medium sized cities in four Midwestern states... - Suicidal ideation among American Indian youthsKevin A Yoder
Department of Sociology, University of North Texas, Denton, TX 76203 1157, USA
Arch Suicide Res 10:177-90. 2006..It was suggested that suicide prevention programs should draw on the strengths of American Indian culture... - A dimensional model of psychopathology among homeless adolescents: suicidality, internalizing, and externalizing disordersKevin A Yoder
Department of Sociology, University of North Texas, P O Box 311157, Denton, TX 76203 1157, USA
J Abnorm Child Psychol 36:95-104. 2008..The findings illustrate the utility of a dimensional approach that integrates suicidality and psychopathology into one model... - Sexual health of homeless youth: prevalence and correlates of sexually transmissible infectionsKimberly A Tyler
Department of Sociology, University of Nebraska Lincoln, 717 Oldfather Hall, Lincoln, NE 68588 0324, USA
Sex Health 4:57-61. 2007..The study examined risk factors for having ever contracted sexually transmissible infections (STI) among a high-risk sample in midwestern USA... - Impact of family abuse on running away, deviance, and street victimization among homeless rural and urban youthLisa E Thrane
Department of Sociology, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS, USA
Child Abuse Negl 30:1117-28. 2006..CONCLUSIONS: Rural youth who have been subjected to elevated levels of familial abuse are at greater risk of deviant subsistence strategies, which increase the likelihood of street victimization... - Depressive symptoms, gender, and growth in cigarette smoking among indigenous adolescentsLes B Whitbeck
Department of Sociology, University of Nebraska Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68588 0324, United States
Addict Behav 34:421-6. 2009..The growth curve results indicated that smoking increased for both adolescent boys and girls across time. Depressive symptoms were associated with an increase in cigarette smoking for girls but not boys... - Gestational risks and psychiatric disorders among indigenous adolescentsLes B Whitbeck
Department of Sociology, University of Nebraska Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68588 0324, USA
Community Ment Health J 45:62-72. 2009.... - Depressed affect and historical loss among North American Indigenous adolescentsLes B Whitbeck
University of Nebraska Lincoln, Department of Sociology, Lincoln, NE 68588 0324, USA
Am Indian Alsk Native Ment Health Res 16:16-41. 2009..The construct of historical loss is discussed in terms of Indigenous ethnic cleansing and life course theory... - Victimization and posttraumatic stress disorder among runaway and homeless adolescentsLes B Whitbeck
Department of Sociology, University of Nebraska Lincoln 68588 0324, USA
Violence Vict 22:721-34. 2007..At very high levels of early sexual abuse, the probability of meeting criteria for PTSD converges with that for sexual assault victims... 
Mental health and substance abuse services preferences among American Indian people of the northern MidwestMelissa L Walls
Department of Sociology, University of Nebraska Lincoln, 711 Oldfather Hall, Lincoln, NE 68588 0324, USA
Community Ment Health J 42:521-35. 2006..To better serve the mental health and substance abuse treatment needs of American Indians, traditional informal services should be incorporated into the current medical model...- Prevalence and comorbidity of mental disorders among American Indian children in the Northern MidwestLes B Whitbeck
Department of Sociology, University of Nebraska at Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska 68588 0324, USA
J Adolesc Health 39:427-34. 2006..To investigate the prevalence of mental disorder and comorbidity among American Indian children aged 10-12 years from four U.S. reservations and five Canadian reserves in the Northern Midwest... - Traditional practices, traditional spirituality, and alcohol cessation among American IndiansRosalie A Torres Stone
Department of Sociology, University of Nebraska Lincoln, 703 Oldfather Hall, Lincoln, Nebraska 68588 0324, USA
J Stud Alcohol 67:236-44. 2006.... - Risk factors for sexual victimization among male and female homeless and runaway youthKimberly A Tyler
University of Nebraska Lincoln, Department of Sociology, Lincoln, NE 68588 0324, USA
J Interpers Violence 19:503-20. 2004..For males, survival sex and grooming predicted stranger sexual victimization, whereas sexual orientation was associated with sexual victimization by a friend/acquaintance. Overall, 35% of the sample had been sexually victimized... - Predictors of first mental health service utilization among homeless and runaway adolescentsTerceira A Berdahl
Department of Sociology, University of Nebraska Lincoln, Nebraska 68588 0324, USA
J Adolesc Health 37:145-54. 2005..To describe and explain variations in first mental health service utilization before and after running away from home for homeless adolescents... - Predictors of social network composition among homeless and runaway adolescentsKurt D Johnson
Department of Sociology, University of Nebraska Lincoln, 739 Oldfather Hall, Lincoln, NE 68588 0324, USA
J Adolesc 28:231-48. 2005..Further, the composition of these networks is related to adolescent characteristics and experiences including sexual identity, abuse history, and street experience... - Mental disorders among parents/caretakers of American Indian early adolescents in the Northern MidwestLes B Whitbeck
Department of Sociology, University of Nebraska Lincoln, 739 Oldfather Hall, Lincoln, NE 68588 0324, USA
Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 41:632-40. 2006..Lifetime prevalence rates were compared to adults in the National Comorbidity Survey (NCS) and Southwest and Northern Plains cultures from the AI-SUPERPFP study... - Cultural considerations in adolescent suicide prevention and psychosocial treatmentDavid B Goldston
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC 27101, USA
Am Psychol 63:14-31. 2008..The needs for culturally sensitive and community- based interventions are discussed, along with future opportunities for research in intervention development and evaluation... - Sequential progression of substance use among homeless youth: an empirical investigation of the gateway theoryJoshua Aaron Ginzler
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
Subst Use Misuse 38:725-58. 2003....