Depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) significantly contribute to the global disease burden, adversely affecting health, medical costs and economic productivity. The SMART-DAPPER project in western Kenya approached this challenge by ...

A Developmental Science Perspective on Anxiety, Depression, and Loneliness in Adolescence: Leveraging Windows of Opportunity for Positive Impact Ronald Dahl, PhD • Distinguished Professor • Founding Director, Center for the Developing Adolescent • UC Berkeley School of Public Health Learning objectives: Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to: Identify three developmental processes that occur in adolescence relevant to behavioral and emotional healthDescribe how these processes can contribute to risk for disorders are more likely to emerge in adolescenceIdentify...

The prevalence of alcohol use disorder (AUD) and alcohol-associated liver disease (ALD) is rising. The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism organised a multistakeholder workshop focused on reducing the burden of ALD. Decreasing ALD morbidity and mortality requires a multipronged approa …

Outpatient follow-up care for traumatic brain injury (TBI) is inconsistent. The Action Collaborative on TBI Care, convened under the auspices of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, aimed to standardize management with a clinical practice guideline. The guideline is intende …

Caregivers of detained adolescents often face significant stress and barriers to accessing resources needed to support their adolescents during community re-entry. This mixed-methods study used a participatory co-design approach to develop and pilot test a mobile health intervention aimed at reducin …

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Psychiatric, cardiometabolic, and immune disorders are highly comorbid, and are precipitated by psychological stress. To explain why these conditions …

We pose the question of whether life has become unlivable for the young in America amidst the current political climate, which has systematically deregulated our social structures that safeguard against oppressive and unjust practices. What leads the young to become demoralized to the point of wanting to end their lives? Drawing on several established psychosocial models for suicide, including those of Durkheim, Joiner, and Butler, we highlight how groups of youth as disparate as youth of color, LGBTQ+ youth, and young men experience unique sociopolitical stressors that contribute to...

Yoga is associated with improvements in factors that protect against the development of eating disorders (EDs), such as mindfulness, self-compassion, and body appreciation. Additionally, yoga is associated with lower body dissatisfaction (BD) and disordered eating. However, research on how yoga redu …

This review synthesizes and critiques research on early life adversity and stress effects on multidomain health outcomes in child samples to fill a gap in the literature that has largely focused on adults. Prioritizing evidence from meta-analytic and systematic reviews as well as findings from (quas …