Well-Being and Suicidal Ideation of Secondary School Students From Military Families | Journal of Adolescent Health
Julie A Cederbaum, Tamika D Gilreath, Rami Benbenishty, Ron A Astor, Diana Pineda, Kris T DePedro, Monica C Esqueda, Hazel Atuel
2014 The mental health of children is a primary public health concern; adolescents of military personnel may be at increased risk of experiencing poorer well-being overall and depressive symptoms specifically. These adolescents experience individual and intrafamilial stressors of parental deployment and reintegration, which are directly and indirectly associated with internalizing behaviors.The present study sought to better understand the influence of parental military connectedness and parental deployment on adolescent mental health...
Prevalence and correlates of victimization and weapon carrying among military- and nonmilitary-connected youth in Southern California | Preventive medicine
Tamika D Gilreath, Ron A Astor, Julie A Cederbaum, Hazel Atuel, Rami Benbenishty
2014 Objectives The present analysis sought to explore the normative rates and correlates of school victimization and weapon carrying among military-connected and nonmilitary-connected youth in public schools in Southern California. Methods Data are from a sub-sample of the 2011 California Healthy Kids Survey (N = 14,512). Items to assess victimization and weapon carrying were separated into three categories: physical acts (e.g., being pushed or shoved), nonphysical acts (e.g., having rumors spread about them) and weapon carrying. Results The bivariate results indicate that youth with a military-connected parent had higher rates of physical victimization (56.8%), nonphysical victimization (68.1%), and weapon carrying (14.4%) compared to those with siblings serving (55.2%, 65.2%, and 11.4%, respectively) and nonmilitary-connected (50.3%, 61.6%, and 8.9%, respectively) youth...
A cross-sectional examination of birth rates among adolescent girls in foster care | Children and Youth Services Review
Bryn King, Emily Putnam-Hornstein, Julie A Cederbaum, Barbara Needell
2014 Although research has suggested that girls in foster care are at high risk of teen birth, limited data have been available from which rates could be calculated and characterized. This California study was based on a dataset constructed by probabilistically matching foster care records to statewide birth records. Using these linked data, we computed cross-sectional birth rate estimates for 15- to 17-year-old girls who were in foster care during each year from 2006 to 2010, characterizing the placement-related experiences and timing of births...