Child and adolescent patients may display mental health concerns within some contexts and
not others (eg, home vs. school). Thus, understanding the specific contexts in which patients …

Background: Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and its possible causes still
attract controversy. Genes, pre and perinatal risks, psychosocial factors and environmental …

Whether spanking is helpful or harmful to children continues to be the source of
considerable debate among both researchers and the public. This article addresses 2 …

Context Although childhood adversities (CAs) are known to be highly co-occurring, most
research examines their associations with psychiatric disorders one at a time. However …

Although various theories describe mechanisms leading to differential parenting of boys and
girls, there is no consensus about the extent to which parents do treat their sons and …

Background: It is a universal finding that there is huge heterogeneity in people's responses
to all kinds of stress and adversity. Resilience is an interactive phenomenon that is inferred …

Our comprehensive meta-analysis combined prevalence figures of child physical abuse
reported in 111 studies, including 168 independent samples with a total of 9,698,801 …

How does parenting affect relational aggression in children? The goal of the present series
of meta-analyses based on 48 studies (28,097 children) was to analyze and integrate the …

There is increasing interest in discovering mechanisms that mediate the effects of childhood
stress on late-life disease morbidity and mortality. Previous studies have suggested one …

This chapter presents 10 years of research into a developmental taxonomy of antisocial
behavior that proposed two primary hypothetical prototypes: life-course-persistent versus …