Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review

Research Hotspot & Journal Scope - Youth

Drawing on recent work establishing the interpersonal consequences of youth victimization, we examined the effect of violent victimization on adolescents’ timing of sexual debut and involvement in additional sexual risk behaviors (multiple sexual partnering and inconsistent contraceptive use).

The present article looks into the psychometric properties of the Revised Youth Purpose Survey (RYPS) in the case of a group of Romanian students emerging adults (N = 500).

As a first step in developing such a tool, we used a large-scale dataset from the National Health and Nutritional Examination Survey (NHANES), to examine the performance of a well-known adult diabetes risk self-assessment screener and published pediatric clinical screening guidelines in identifying youth with pre-diabetes/diabetes (pre-DM/DM) based on American Diabetes Association diagnostic biomarkers.

(2018) conducted a case study design to map the participation of disabled youth in sport and other free-time activities.

Instigated by 16-year-old Thunberg’s outrage and deep sadness at inaction on climate change, protests have ignited youth across the world to express their fears about a changing climate and fury with the lack of political response.