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Personality Disorders
Behavioral Factors Affect Injury Risk in Children
June 18th, 2007
Efforts to reduce injury rates in children and teens should address key behavioral and developmental risk factors—including social differences in the way safety messages are presented to boys versus girls, the individual child's temperament and personality, and parenting styles, according to an article in the Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, published by the Society for Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics and by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health. David C. Schwebel, Ph.D., a psychologist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and Joanna Gaines, A.B., review major behavioral risk factors for unintentional injuries...
Source: Mental Health Weekly Digest (2007-06-18)
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