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      Evidence-based psychotherapy for children and adolescents: How science becomes practice 

      Constantinou, Marios; Dipli, Christiana; Karekla, Maria (American Psychological Association, 2008)
      Reviews the book, Handbook of evidence-based therapies for children and adolescents: Bridging science and practice edited by Ric G. Steele, T. David Elkin, and Michael C. Roberts (see record rid]2007-13784-000/rid]). The ...
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      Interaction of reward seeking and self-regulation in the prediction of risk taking: A cross-national test of the dual systems model 

      Duell, Natasha; Steinberg, L.; Chein, Jason; Al-Hassan, Suha M.; Bacchini, Dario; Lei, Chang; Chaudhary, N.; Di Giunta, Laura; Dodge, Kenneth A.; Fanti, Kostas A.; Lansford, J. E.; Malone, Patrick S.; Oburu, Paul; Pastorelli, Concetta; Skinner, Ann T.; Sorbring, Emma; Tapanya, Sombat; Tirado, L. M. U.; Alampay, L. P. (American Psychological Association Inc, 2016)
      In the present analysis, we test the dual systems model of adolescent risk taking in a cross-national sample of over 5,200 individuals aged 10 through 30 (M = 17.05 years, SD = 5.91) from 11 countries. We examine whether ...
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      Is there a psychopathic element in adolescent drinking? A longitudinal study 

      Charalampous, K.; Stavrinides, Panayiotis; Georgiou, Stelios N.; Giasemidou, P. (2017)
      While previous studies have examined the relationship between psychopathic traits and alcohol use in adolescents, limited empirical investigations of the longitudinal bidirectional effects of psychopathic traits and alcohol ...
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      Smoking prevalence and tobacco exposure among adolescents in Cyprus 

      Karekla, Maria; Symeou, A.; Tsangari, H.; Kapsou, Margarita; Constantinou, Marios (2009)
      Background: Smoking has been internationally recognized as an epidemic contributing to major health problems. Smoking contributes to most of the preventable deaths worldwide. Although Cyprus is considered among developed ...