Publications by authors named "China R Bolden"
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- ADHD impacts about 5% of youth worldwide and leads to various negative life effects and economic burdens; initial treatments were mainly medication-based.
- Recent research highlights non-pharmacological treatments, showing that while some, like multicomponent cognitive behavioral therapy and polyunsaturated fatty acids, have modest benefits, none consistently outperform medication for ADHD symptoms.
- Non-pharmacological treatments are generally safe and can be tolerated by clinicians, but families should be informed about their limitations, such as costs and lack of strong proven efficacy compared to pharmacological options.
The effects of stress and parenting on 1-year trajectories of physiological emotion regulation capacity among adolescents were examined. Consistent with the vulnerability-stress and allostatic load models, stress (chronic family and marital) was hypothesized to be associated with less favorable trajectories of basal respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) over 1 year. This relationship was further hypothesized to be moderated by parenting practices (warmth, neglect, and rejection) and adolescent sex.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDistress Tolerance as a Mechanism Linking Violence Exposure to Problematic Alcohol use in Adolescence.
Res Child Adolesc Psychopathol
September 2021
Adolescents exposed to violence are at elevated risk of developing most forms of psychopathology, including depression, anxiety, and alcohol abuse. Prior research has identified emotional reactivity and difficulties with emotion regulation as core mechanisms linking violence exposure with psychopathology. Scant research has examined behavioral responses to distress as a mechanism in this association.
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