Recommended reading

Addiction Professional, July, 2004 by Lewis P. Lipsitt

From Dahl

(1) Tanner, JM: Foetus into Man, Second Edition, Castlemead Publications; 1989.

(2) Herman-Giddens ME, Slora EJ, Wasserman RC, et al.: Secondary sexual characteristics and menses in young girls seen in office practice: a study from the Pediatric Research in Office Settings Network. Pediatrics, 99(4): 505-512; 1997.

From Goldston

Costello EJ, Matheson W: Great Smoky Mountains Study, 1992-2003; Duke University and the North Carolina State Division of Developmental Disabilities, Mental Health. http://www.duke.edu/deptdir/Great_Smoky_Mountains_Study.html

Youth Risk Behavior Survey, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Adolescent and School Health. http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dash/yrbs/

Walrath CM, Mandell DS, Liao Q, et al.: Suicide attempts in the "comprehensive community mental health services for children and their families" program. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 2001; 40(10): 1197-1205.

From Lewis

The Alcohol Cost Calculator, from the George Washington University Medical Center. http://www.alcoholcostcalculator.org/

Physicians and Lawyers for National Drug Policy, www.plndp.org

From Limber

Olweus D: Bullying at school: Basic facts and effects of a school based intervention program. Journal of Child Psychological Psychiatry, 1994; 35(7): 1171-90.

Rigby K: Consequences of bullying in schools. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 2003; 48(9): 583-590.

Nansel TR, Overpeck MD, Haynie DL, et al.: Relationships between bullying and violence among US youth. Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, 2003;157(4): 348-53.

Anderson M, Kaufman J, Simon TR, et al.: School-associated violent deaths in the United States, 1994-1999. Journal of the American Medical Association, 2001; 286(21): 2695-702

From Lorion:

Putnam, Robert D: Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community. Touchstone Books, 2001; Paperback, 544 pages. ISBN: 0743203046.

Putnam RD, Feldstein L: Better Together: Restoring the American Community. Simon & Schuster, 2003; Hardcover, 336 pages. ISBN: 0743235460.

Scales PC, Benson PL, Mannes M: Other People's Kids: Social Expectations and American Adults' Involvement with Children and Adolescents, 2003; Plenum Publishing Co. Hardcover, 290 pages. ISBN: 0306477343.

Search Institute: 40 Developmental Assets, www.search-institute.org

Lewis P. Lipsitt, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus of Psychology, Medical Science and Human Development at Brown University. He was the founder and director of the Child Study Center at Brown and was founding editor of The Brown University Child and Adolescent Behavior Letter.

Dr. Lipsitt served as Executive Director for Science at the American Psychological Association (APA), and will be honored at the association's 2004 annual meeting for lifetime achievement in the field of child development research.

Upon his retirement, Dr. Lipsitt and his wife Edna Duchin Lipsitt established the Lipsitt-Duchin Lectures in Child and Adolescent Development and Behavior.

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