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Disabilities and Degrees: Identifying Health Impairments That Predict Lower Chances of College Enrollment and Graduation in a Nationally Representative Sample
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Rosenbaum, Janet E. – Community College Review, 2018
Objective: Colleges have increased postsecondary educational access for youth, including individuals with disabilities, but completion rates remain low. This study tests the hypothesis that health conditions that reduce social integration predict lower educational attainment among college students. Method: The sample from the nationally…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Physical Disabilities, Hearing Impairments, Visual Impairments
The "Community Supports for Wraparound Inventory": An Assessment of the Implementation Context for Wraparound
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Walker, Janet S.; Sanders, Becca – Journal of Child and Family Studies, 2011
The wraparound process has emerged as perhaps the most frequently implemented comprehensive approach for planning and providing individualized, community-based care for children and adolescents with serious mental health conditions. Providing comprehensive care through the wraparound process necessarily requires a high level of collaboration…
Descriptors: Integrated Services, Health Conditions, Evaluation, Children
Young Australians: Their Health and Wellbeing 2011
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Milnes, Annette; Pegrum, Karen; Nebe, Brett; Topfer, Alex; Gaal, Lisa; Zhang, Jessica; Hunter, Nicole – Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 2011
This paper is the fourth in a series of national statistical reports on young people aged 12-24 years produced by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW). This report provides the latest available information on how Australia's young people are faring according to national indicators of health and wellbeing. Many young Australians…
Descriptors: Accidents, Social Support Groups, Physical Activities, Mental Disorders
Double Jeopardy in the Interrogation Room for Youths with Mental Illness
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Redlich, Allison D. – American Psychologist, 2007
Comments on the article by J. Owen-Kostelnik, N. D. Reppucci, and J. R. Meyer (see record 2006-05893-002) which reviewed the issues surrounding the police interrogation of minors. This commentary expands on the review by addressing the mental health status of youths who come into contact with police. It stems from two immutable facts: (a) The…
Descriptors: Mental Disorders, Health Conditions, Mental Health, Risk
Determinants of Prescription Drug Use by Adolescents with Intellectual Disabilities in Taiwan
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Yen, Chia-Feng; Lin, Jin-Ding; Loh, Ching-Hui; Shi, Leiyu; Hsu, Shang-Wei – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2009
Direct family caregivers of population-based adolescents with intellectual disabilities in Taiwan were surveyed regarding their perceptions of the use of prescribed medication and its relationship with health-related behaviors, medical care and preventive health utilization of people with intellectual disabilities. Cross-sectional data on 1419…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Drug Therapy, Health Behavior, Prevention
The Social Distribution of Reports of Health-Related Concerns among Adolescents in Sao Paulo, Brazil
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de Moura, S. L. – Health Education Research, 2004
This study investigated the health-related concerns of adolescents living on streets as compared to poor and privileged adolescents living with their families in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The different groups of respondents were similar in terms of individuals' fear of disease and lack of concern about health in old age. AIDS and cancer were feared by…
Descriptors: Health Education, Mental Disorders, Diseases, Demography