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    Journeys in Youth Development Podcast, Episode 4

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    NIOST director Georgia Hall, Ph.D., talks to Terrance Cauley, Senior Director in the Department of Youth, Family & Clinical Services at Better Family Life, Inc. in St. Louis, Missouri. Terrance highlights the importance of offering historically marginalized Black youth opportunities for self-definition, and discusses how he does this through his work in out-of-school time programming.

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    The Wage Gap: The Motherhood Penalty and the Fatherhood Premium

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Lunchtime Seminar April 5, 2012 (57:52 min.)

Tracy GladstoneProject CATCH-IT is a combined primary care/internet-based preventive intervention that aims to reduce the risk of depression in adolescents with depressive symptoms.  It is designed to teach teens strategies to prevent depression.

Tracy GladstoneTracy Gladstone, Ph.D.: Preventing Depression in Teens: The CATCH-IT Intervention Program

Lunchtime Seminar April 5, 2012 (57:52 min.)

Project CATCH-IT is a combined primary care/internet-based preventive intervention that aims to reduce the risk of depression in adolescents with depressive symptoms.  It is designed to teach teens strategies to prevent depression.  In this presentation, Tracy Gladstone, Ph.D., Director of the Stone Primary Prevention Initiatives at the Wellesley Centers for Women, describes the CATCH-IT intervention and presents pilot data suggesting that teens who participate in this intervention exhibit reductions in depressive symptoms and fewer episodes of depressive disorders over time.  She also describes the efficacy trial of this intervention that is currently underway at WCW.

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