4200.0 Emotional Distress, Behavior and Violence Among Adolescents

Tuesday, November 9, 2010: 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Oral
This session explores several factors influencing adolescent mental health. Topics include adolescent stress, parental financial hardship, parental immigrant status, conduct disorders, and youth violence among Asian and Pacific Islander groups.
Session Objectives: Explain the effectiveness of the Brief Evaluation of Perceived Stress Instrument (BEPSI) in measuring stress among adolescents. Assess the impact of parental characteristics (i.e., financial hardship, immigrant status) on adolescent well-being. Name at least one reason to disaggregate the normally collapsed “Asian/Pacific Islander” ethnicity category.
Organizer:
Lauren Radano, MA
Moderator:
Michele A. Kelley, ScD, MSW, MA

12:30pm
Association of adolescent stress with health risk behaviors, and mental health and physical health outcomes among middle school and high school students
Scott Frank, MD, MS
     
12:45pm
Parental Debt Hardship and Socio-Emotional Well-being of Children and Youth
Yumiko Aratani, PhD, Michelle Chau and Janice L. Cooper
1:00pm
Mental health problems and parental immigrant status among adolescents: Effect of race/ethnicity
Arnold Nutifafa Degboe, MB ChB , MBA, Rhonda Belue, PhD and Marianne M. Hillemeier, PhD, MPH
     
1:15pm
Conduct disorders and food insecurity in adolescence: The mediating effect of parental distress
Christelle Roustit, MD PhD, Judith Martin, MSc, Francesca Grillo, PhD and Pierre Chauvin, MD PhD
1:30pm
Prevalence of Youth Violence among Asian and Pacific Islander Youth: National Data from 1999 to 2007
Jeanelle Sugimoto-Matsuda, MSFS, Earl S. Hishinuma, PhD and Janice Chang, PsyD
        

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: Maternal and Child Health
Endorsed by: Family Violence Prevention Forum, APHA-Committee on Women's Rights, Mental Health, Social Work

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH)

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