Absenteeism from school is a serious public health issue for mental health professionals,
physicians, and educators. The prevalence of unexcused absences from school exceeds …

Problematic school absenteeism in youth has long been a complex and vexatious issue for
psychologists, educators, and researchers from other disciplines. An examination of …

Background: School absenteeism is a complex problem that includes risk factors associated
with individual traits, socio‐economic conditions, family structure, the school and society …

Objective. To examine the specificity of risk for alcohol or drug abuse or dependence
(substance use disorders [SUDs]) in offspring exposed to particular subtypes of parental …

In some American schools, about a fifth of the fathers have spent time in prison during their
child's primary education. We examine how variation across schools in the aggregation and …

Frequent absences in the primary grades are associated with school disengagement,
academic failure, and eventual dropout. The Early Truancy Prevention Project (ETPP) was …

Relations between maternal and paternal problem drinking symptoms and destructive
marital conflict, parenting problems, and children's internalizing and externalizing problems …

Parental substance use, that is alcohol and illicit drugs, can have a deleterious impact on
child health and wellbeing. An area that can be affected by parental substance use is the …

Understanding what children of alcoholics and other substance users experience has
dominated the scientific literature and popular press for the past several decades. To date …

School absenteeism and dropout can have long-term detrimental consequences for young
people. It is empirically established that children exposed to positive family processes (PFP) …