Tuesday, July 3, 2012

As I was saying

Impulse Control Problems.

Study: One in Four Texas Teens 'Sexting'
More than a quarter of teens at seven Texas high schools reported having sent a "sext" -- a naked picture of themselves by text or email, researchers found... Such sexting behavior was associated with an increased likelihood of dating or having sex for both boys and girls, and with risky sexual behaviors for girls, the researchers reported online in Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine.
Nearly 1 in 12 teens has anger disorder
While most teens have a violent, angry outburst at some point during their adolescence, nearly 8 percent have regular violent outbursts that would fall into the category of a mental health disorder. That’s according to a Harvard Medical School finding published online Monday in the Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the first studies to measure the prevalence of the disorder in teens.