5023.0 Adolescent Mental Health

Wednesday, November 7, 2007: 8:30 AM
Poster
This session features posters on adolescent mental health. It features presentations on risk factors for suicide; behavioral and psychological antecedents of sexually agressive behaviors; and social and cultural factors contributing to depression among adolescents.
Session Objectives: Discuss relationship between mental health and sexually agressive behavior. List risk factors for adolescent suicide, in particular among African Americans. List risk factors for depression among adolescents.
Organizer:
Lacy M. Fehrenbach, MPH

Board 1
Is there an association between disordered eating behaviors and suicide ideation among female adolescents sampled in The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health Wave II?
Mei Ling Ellis, MSW, MPH, Jane M. Rees, PhD, MS, RD, Elaine A. Thompson, PhD, RN and Lewayne D. Gilchrist, PhD, MSW, MA
Board 2
Social Integration, Depressed Mood and Physical Activity: A Study Among Adolescent Boys and Girls
Inga Dóra Sigfúsdóttir, PhD, Álfgeir Logi Kristjánsson, MSc and John Allegrante, PhD
Board 3
Health Lifestyle Patterns of California Adolescents: Racial/Ethnic Disparities and the Role of Mental Health
Ritesh Mistry, PhD, MPH, William McCarthy, PhD, Antronette Yancey, MD, MPH and Roshan Bastani, PhD
Board 4
Fluctuating Risk Factors of Suicide Among Adolescent African-Americans
Leigh A. Willis, PhD, MPH, David W. Coombs, PhD, MPH, John Bolland, PhD, Ann Elizabeth Montgomery, MPA, MSSW and Anna Hines-Capron
Board 5
Behavioral and Psychological Antecedents of Sexually Aggressive Behaviors among High Risk Adolescents
Alexis Magdalene Inabinet, MA, John Bolland, PhD, Maja Altarac, MD, MPH, PHD and T. Mark Beasley, PhD
Board 6
Trajectory of sexual aggressiveness as a function of hopelessness among high risk adolescents
Alexis Magdalene Inabinet, MA, John Bolland, PhD and T. Mark Beasley, PhD
Board 7
Family economic hardship and depressive symptomatology in adolescents
M. Janice Gilliland, MSPH, PhD, Sylvie Mrug, PhD and Michael Windle, PhD
  
Board 8
Validity and reliability in diverse samples of a questionnaire to assess adolescent attachment patterns
Adrienne E. Keller, PhD and Elizabeth Lloyd McGarvey, EdD

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Organized by: Maternal and Child Health
Endorsed by: Epidemiology

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