55 Brian J. Sherman, M.A., is a doctoral candidate in clinical psychology at the Department of Counseling and Clinical Psychology, Teachers College, Columbia University. He has conducted research in developmental psychopathology from a risk and resilience framework among at-risk populations in the United States and Brazil. Cristiane S. Duarte, Ph.D., M.P.H., is an assistant professor of clinical psychology in psychiatry at the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York. She has contributed to influential innovative large-scale studies of youth mental health in Brazil, the United States, Puerto Rico, and other countries. Helen Verdeli, Ph.D., is an assistant professor at the Department of Counseling and Clinical Psychology, Teachers College, Columbia University, and an adjunct assistant professor of psychology at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York. Her research focuses on treatment and prevention of mood disorders. Dr. Verdeli is involved in adapting and testing psychotherapy for depressed people in developing countries, and she has collaborated with academic and humanitarian groups in the United States and International Journal of Mental Health, vol. 40, no. 3, Fall 2011, pp. 55–76. © 2011 M.E. Sharpe, Inc. All rights reserved. ISSN 0020–7411/2011 $9.50 + 0.00. DOI 10.2753/IMH0020-7411400304 BRIAN J. SHERMAN, CRISTIANE S. DUARTE, AND HELEN VERDELI Internalizing and Externalizing Problems in Adolescents from Bahia, Brazil Sociodemographic Correlates and Family Environment in Boys and Girls ABSTRACT: This study examines the associations between sociodemographic and family environment factors, and adolescent internalizing and externalizing problems in a socioeconomically disadvantaged community in the northeast- ern state of Bahia, Brazil. Three-hundred and forty-four adolescents, age 11 to 18 (mean age = 13.6 years) responded to a school-based survey that assessed sociodemographic indicators of risk (e.g., race, parental marital status, parental education, parental employment), intrinsic religiosity, family