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Objective: There are few well-evaluated uncomplicated community-based interventions for childhood aggression. The authors assess the impact of a community-based anger management group on child aggressive behaviors, using a randomized, controlled trial (RCT).Method: Families with children 7 to 11 years old were recruited through advertisements and randomized (N = 123). Inclusion required parent concern about anger/aggressive behavior, RCT agreement, and a telephone behavior screen. Intervention participants were offered three parent education/skill-building group sessions, 10 weekly child group sessions, and three in-home family practice sessions. Nine groups ran from August 2002 to August 2004. Interviewers naïve to randomization collected data on all participants pre- and postgroup. Outcomes included child-rated anger and parent-rated child aggressive behavior, externalizing behavior and hostility, parent-child relationship, and parenting stress. Intent-to-treat analyses were done.Results: Pre/postoutcome comparisons indicated no significant differences between intervention versus control, with small effect sizes for most outcomes (0.27-0.29). Although not significant, the magnitude of improvement favored intervention families on all parent-rated measures.Conclusions: Overall, there was no differential impact of participating in a community-based anger management group versus control on child aggressive behaviors and other associated measures. The impact of regression to the mean, effect, and sample size estimates; child comorbidity; and programmatic and methodological issues are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: To obtain preliminary evidence of the feasibility and effectiveness of adjunctive family psychoeducation in adolescent major depressive disorder. Method: Participants were from outpatient clinics in Hamilton and London, Ontario. Over 24 months, 41 adolescents ages 13 through 18 years meeting major depressive disorder criteria were recruited (31 in Hamilton, 10 in London). Participants were randomized to usual treatment or usual treatment plus family psychoeducation. Outcome measures were readministered at 2 weeks, mid-treatment, posttreatment, and 3-month follow-up. Intent-to-treat analyses used χ² and t tests and growth curve analysis. Standardized effects based on growth curve estimates were calculated for continuous outcomes. Results: The London site was withdrawn because of poor participant retention. In Hamilton, no participant missed more than one assessment and there was good family psychoeducation adherence. Compared to controls, participants in the experimental group showed greater improvement in social functioning and adolescent-parent relationships (with medium standardized effect size >0.5), and parents reported greater satisfaction with treatment. Conclusions: There were positive treatment effects on family and social functioning processes postulated to mediate the clinical course of major depressive disorder. The study provides support for further evaluation of family psychoeducation in this clinical population. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Presents information on a study that examined the strength of association between single-mother family status and child outcome. Methodology of the study; Results and discussion on the study.

Examines the reliability and validity of the age-of-onset subtyping of conduct disorder. Definition of reliability; Requirement for categories to be phenomenologically discrete; Absence of predictive validity in the age-of-onset subtyping method.

Presents the findings of a study which sought to determine whether measurement reliability was linked to risk factors and childhood psychiatric disorder. Orign of data ussed to conduct the study; Regression of selected risk factors on parental assessments of childhood oppositional defiant disorder and overanxious disorders.

Presents information on a study conducted on disorders in children. Purpose of the study; Methodology used to conduct the study; Results of the study.

The article presents a study which explores the associations between young adult functioning and being born to a teen mother at the time of birth and being born to a teen mother later in her life. Data from the Ontario Child Health Study (OCHS), a community survey of the determinants of child health among Ontario children, were analyzed. Findings of the study revealed that being born to a teen mother is associated with poorer educational achievement, personal income, and life satisfaction.

The article investigates the psychiatric trajectories of physical aggression (PA) and indirect aggression (IA) in young adulthood, particularly noting its prediction of delinquency, depressive symptoms, and emotional intelligence in emerging adulthood. It comments on the psychiatric aspects of adult maladjustment through the use of the National Longitudinal Study of Children and Youth.

An abstract of the article "The Association Between Cyberbullying Victimization and Adolescent Mental health: A Comparative Study Between Traditional Types of Bullying Versus Cyberbullying" by Soyeon Kim and colleagues is presented.