Youth Studies Australia articles from June 2005

Youth Studies Australia archives from June 2005

The voices of young people are heard loud and clear in many of the papers in this issue of Youth Studies Australia.
June 1, 2005... The voices of young people are heard loud and clear in many of the papers in this issue of Youth Studies Australia. We start with a study of young women's views of motherhood, in which they reveal some anxiety about the financial cost of having...

Childhood abused.(Abuse & protection)(Alannah and Madeline Foundation)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... A study called Childhood abused, released in April, says there were 40,416 substantiated reports of child abuse in Australia in the fiscal year 2002-03. The report, which is a joint initiative of the Alannah and Madeline Foundation and La Trobe...

Protecting vulnerable children.(Abuse & protection)
June 1, 2005... On 17 March the Senate's Community Affairs References Committee handed down its second report on children in institutional care. (The first report, Forgotten Australians, was completed in August 2004.) The second report, Protecting...

Commissioner for children and young people.(Abuse & protection)(Human Rights Commission)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... The Australian Capital Territory has created a new position of Commissioner for Children and Young People within a newly formed Human Rights Commission. The commissioner's role will be to protect the rights of children and young people, with a...

National database of child abuse images.(Abuse & protection)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Police will create a national library of child abuse images as a way of rescuing victims and tracking down paedophiles. The library will use facial recognition technology to identify victims of sexual abuse and paedophiles appearing in video...

Educational difficulties in care.(Abuse & protection)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Research into the educational outcomes for children in care paints a bleak picture. Almost 22,000 children and young people were in out-of-home care in 2004, according to a government statistical snapshot, although the Create Foundation (an...

Female teachers at risk.(Bullying & violence)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Women teachers are more than twice as likely as their male colleagues to suffer abuse, attacks and harassment at the hands of students. Researchers at the University of South Australia examined questionnaires completed by government teachers...

School violence learnt at home.(Bullying & violence)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Children who are irrationally and erratically punished at home are more likely to hit out at school, new research has shown. In the largest survey of its kind in Australia the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research questioned 2600 Year 8...

National Safe Schools scheme.(Bullying & violence)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... The Australian Government has launched a National Safe Schools scheme in which 179 schools around Australia have qualified for funding to showcase best-practice anti-bullying and child abuse strategies. The Safe Schools Framework will...

Speak Up Day.(Bullying & violence)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... In New South Wales the state government and the Daily Telegraph ran a month-long anti-bullying campaign in March, culminating in Speak Up Day on 30 March. Three thousand public and private schools took part. During the campaign, students held...

Anti-bullying successes.(bullying & violence)
June 1, 2005... A South Australian primary school, Lockleys North, has developed a successful program of surveying students once a term about bullying levels and other issues that may hamper their social and educational development. Teachers assess the survey...

Peer support vs bullies.(Bullying & violence)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... A three-year study by the University of Western Sydney shows that peer support is helping to dramatically change attitudes to bullying. Participating Year 7 students were found to be more aware of bullying and had become more helpful towards...

Cyber bullies.(Bullying & violence)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Mobile phone companies have launched a guide to help beat increasing student harassment by mobile phone calls, text messages and pictures. The guide warns that offensive messages sent from mobile phones can be traced and that the perpetrators...

The Ropes program.(Crime & justice)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Some Melbourne western suburbs teenagers who commit minor offences can undergo a rope-climbing course with police instead of being convicted. The Ropes Program, a scheme that aims to prevent young people from returning to crime, has been...

Young offenders in Queensland.(Crime & justice)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... In Queensland, young criminals may avoid being sentenced under adult laws until they are 18 under a new state government plan to keep them out of jail. Attorney-General Rod Welford said the proposal was being considered because it would bring...

New national survey.(Drugs)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... The latest national household drug survey from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare shows that the nation's rates of tobacco smoking reached an all-time low last year and were among the lowest in the world. However, there were still...

National Year 12 exam.(Education & training)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... The Australian Department of Education, Science and Training sought tenders from consultants to prepare proposals for an Australian Certificate of Education which might supplant the state-based qualifications given to students who...

Values.(Education & training)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... The nine values that Australian schools will study from this year were a collection of 'apple pie' words that would not help students analyse current and emerging issues, a British expert in values education has said. Dr Peter Vardy, of the...

Homework.(Education & training)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... In a feature article about homework, the Melbourne writer Margaret Simons noted that 'studies from all over the world confirm that parents from all backgrounds like their children to have homework. They believe that homework teaches their...

University as level playing field.(Education & training)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Public-school students who leave Year 12 with lower marks than their private-school rivals overtake them academically once they hit the 'level playing field' of university. A study of 12,500 first-year students from Monash University found that...

Learn a trade and be better off.(Employment)(labor market in Australia)
June 1, 2005... In response to the nation's growing shortage of skilled workers, Prime Minister John Howard has urged young people to consider quitting school in Year 10 to pursue careers in traditional trades. He said the nation had developed a deep-seated...

Reality check.(Employment)(jobs for youth)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... What do students think of work? Are they on the right page? is the title of a report on research undertaken for The Smith Family by the Australian Council for Educational Research. The research, which was based on a survey of 3721 financially...

Full-time jobs: the broad picture.(Employment)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... The entire growth in full-time jobs over the past 15 years has gone to workers aged 45 and over, while workers aged 15 to 44 have fewer full-time jobs now than in 1989. Australian Bureau of Statistics data shows that Australia has added almost...

Resilient children.(Families)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Children of divorced or separated parents are as well-adjusted, well-behaved and academically proficient at age 18 as children whose parents are together, according to The Australian Temperament Project. This project began in 1983 and set out...

Children's access to divorced fathers.(Families)
June 1, 2005... A new study shows that divorced fathers are more involved in their children's lives than conventional wisdom would have it. Bruce Smyth, research fellow at the Australian Institute of Family Studies, has published (in the Institute's journal...

Parents wanting advice.(Families)
June 1, 2005... The majority of parents taking part in a recent survey lacked confidence in themselves as parents, and nearly half felt that parenting did not come naturally. A quarter of them were afraid to get help to be a better parent for fear of being...

Some ACT statistics.(Gambling)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Adolescent gambling in the ACT, a report by the Australian National University's Centre for Gambling Research, revealed that more than 70% of Canberra's young people gambled at least annually, and 10% gambled weekly. These rates of gambling...

Vaccinations.(Health & safety)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... The federal government announced a $143-million expansion of child vaccinations. Babies and at-risk teenagers will be eligible for free chicken-pox vaccinations from November, three years after the government's expert committee recommended the...

Chlamydia.(Health & safety)
June 1, 2005... In an interview with The Age, Dr Henrietta Williams, senior medical officer of Family Planning Victoria, said it is tragic that young people have become casual or unheeding about chlamydia, which is Australia's number 1 notifiable sexually...

Preschool obesity in SA.(Health & safety)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... What is said to be South Australia's first major study of preschool obesity, based on kindergarten screenings of 114,000 children aged 4-5, showed that across the state 20% of the children in that age range were obese or overweight. The study...

Teenagers, weight, and serious illness.(Health & safety)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Dr Michael Booth, a director at the University of Sydney's Centre for Overweight and Obesity, said teenagers were showing signs of serious illness caused by their weight. He said he and his colleagues had collected blood samples from 500...

Mixed news on temperaments.(Health & safety)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Depression, anxiety and alcohol use are afflicting a significant number of young Australians, darkening an otherwise positive report on today's emerging adults. New data from the long-running Australian Temperament Project, based this time on...

Relieving asthma symptoms.(Health & safety)(Woolcock Institute of Medical Research)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Simple chest exercises and breathing techniques allow patients to slash the use of medication to relieve asthma symptoms by up to 86%, according to an Australian research team. The effectiveness of remedies once condemned as quackery by...

Children sleeping on the streets.(Housing & homelessness)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Mission Australia and the Salvation Army have warned of a crisis in youth homelessness. In Victoria, more than 5000 young people under 20 are homeless and fending for themselves. About 600 of these each year are former state wards aged between...

Compulsory student unionism.(Incomes & expenditures)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Dr Brendan Nelson, the federal Minister for Education, led the government's push to abolish compulsory student union membership, saying the only reward for the fees was grumpy service and overpriced sausage rolls. When the government gains...

Financial 'literacy'.(Incomes & expenditures)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Research for the Commonwealth Bank, involving a national telephone survey of 5000 people, investigated levels of 'financial literacy'--a term that was defined as the ability to make informed judgements and to make effective and responsible...

New plan for school drop-outs.(Indigenous youth)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Faced with a high-school dropout rate of up to 67% among Indigenous students (or about 26,000 teenagers a year), the Australian government plans to increase pressure on these teenagers to enter TAFE courses rather than staying in...

Mental health.(Indigenous youth)
June 1, 2005... Almost one in four young Indigenous people are at high risk of suffering from a mental illness, and those born to parents of the stolen generation are at even greater risk. These findings are in the second report of the biggest survey of...

Teenage pregnancies.(Rural and isolated)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Teenage girls in rural Australia are 1.5 times more likely to get pregnant than teenagers who live in a city. In New South Wales in 2002 there were 35.4 teenage pregnancies for every 1000 teenage girls in rural areas, but 22.7 per 1000 among...

Calls for help.(Services)(help line service for children and youth)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Kids Help Line reports that in 2004 it had 70,000 callers who required immediate and urgent counselling. There was a 50% increase in the proportion of calls about mental illness (mostly anxiety and depression). Kids Help Line's general manager,...

Young carers struggling.(Services)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... The Youth Coalition in the ACT has released two reports on the experiences of children and young people who help to care for family members affected by an illness, disability, unstable mental health, or alcohol or other drugs. The Youth...

Teenagers and sex.(Sexuality)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... An Australian survey of nearly 20,000 people revealed that teenagers have less sex and suffer more anxiety and embarrassment about it than people in their 20s and 30s. The survey findings are quoted in a book by Dr Juliet Richters and Dr Chris...

Victorian health report.(Sexuality)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... A new report on sexual health issues facing young people says that Victoria has one of the lowest rates of teenage pregnancy in Australia but a high rate of infection from sexually transmitted diseases. Focusing on young women aged 15-17 and...

Postinar-2.(Sexuality)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... According to Curtin University academic Con Berbatis, Australia's abortion rate is likely to halve in the next decade as the morning-after pill, Postinor-2, becomes more widely available. Sales of the drug, formerly available only on...

Tasmanian choices.(Sexuality)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... A new research report called Making choices says Tasmania can halve its teenage pregnancy rate in four years with the right approach. The state's teenage birth rate is one of the highest in Australia--second only to that of the Northern...

Undervalued, expensive & difficult: young women talk about motherhood.(Peer reviewed)
June 1, 2005... There has been considerable public debate in Australia around falling fertility rates; however, the voices of young women have not been prominent in these debates. JaneMaree Maher presents 16 young women's views of motherhood. Their positive...

In Youth Studies Australia, v.20, n.3, 2001, we published a paper titled 'Hopes and fears: The life choices, aspirations and well-being of young rural women' by Penny Warner-Smith and Christina Lee (pp.32-37).(Xtra)
June 1, 2005... In Youth Studies Australia, v.20, n.3, 2001, we published a paper titled 'Hopes and fears: The life choices, aspirations and well-being of young rural women' by Penny Warner-Smith and Christina Lee (pp.32-37). If you are interested in comparing...

In 2004, The Australian Institute of Family Studies released the Research report no. 11 2004 titled 'It's not for lack of wanting kids...' A report on the Fertility Decision Making Project by Ruth Weston, Lixia Qu, Robyn Parker and Michael Alexander.(Xtra)
June 1, 2005... In 2004, The Australian Institute of Family Studies released the Research report no. 11 2004 titled 'It's not for lack of wanting kids...' A report on the Fertility Decision Making Project by Ruth Weston, Lixia Qu, Robyn Parker and Michael...

For information on fertility rates of young Australian women, see the 'Pregnancy and Parenthood' section of our Australian Youth Facts & Stats web site at: <http://www.youthfacts.com.au/>.(Xtra)
June 1, 2005... For information on fertility rates of young Australian women, see the 'Pregnancy and Parenthood' section of our Australian Youth Facts & Stats web site at: . This is another ACYS free service!

In Western Australia, the SEMYA youth service (South East Metropolitan Youth Action) has four pamphlets for young people on the topics of: contraception; being a teenager and a parent; teenagers as parents; and budgeting.(Xtra)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... In Western Australia, the SEMYA youth service (South East Metropolitan Youth Action) has four pamphlets for young people on the topics of: contraception; being a teenager and a parent; teenagers as parents; and budgeting. The first three...

In Victoria, Orana Family Services provide courses for young parents and those who are pregnant which will give participants the opportunity to learn about their children and to meet other young parents.(Xtra)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... In Victoria, Orana Family Services provide courses for young parents and those who are pregnant which will give participants the opportunity to learn about their children and to meet other young parents. See: .

In South Australia, there is a useful service called the Centre for Parenting, Child and Youth Health.(Xtra)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... In South Australia, there is a useful service called the Centre for Parenting, Child and Youth Health, 295 South Tce, Adelaide SA 5000; ph: (08) 83031581;

In Queensland, Young Mothers for Young Women recently organised a campaign called 'Please don't forget young women care too' in order to put pressure on the Queensland Government to increase its support for young parents.(Xtra)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... In Queensland, Young Mothers for Young Women recently organised a campaign called 'Please don't forget young women care too' in order to put pressure on the Queensland Government to increase its support for young parents. The campaign called...

Time magazine recently focused on the twentysomething generation in their cover story 24 January 2005 (pp.38-47).(Xtra)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Time magazine recently focused on the twenty something generation in their cover story 24 January 2005 (pp.38-47). The article, 'Grow up? Not so fast' describes the lengthening transition period to young adulthood, which has a major impact on...

Drawing on the Life-Patterns Research Project, a longitudinal panel study conducted by the Australian Youth Centre at the University of Melbourne, Johanna Wyn wrote on 'Becoming adult in the 2000s: New transitions and new careers' in Family Matters, n.68, pp.6-12.(Xtra)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Drawing on the Life-Patterns Research Project, a longitudinal panel study conducted by the Australian Youth Centre at the University of Melbourne, Johanna Wyn wrote on 'Becoming adult in the 2000s: New transitions and new careers' in Family...

In June 2005, a USA research conference will look at the issue of difficult transitions for young adults.(Xtra)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... In June 2005, a USA research conference will look at the issue of difficult transitions for young adults. 'Trauma, stress and difficult life transitions: Crossing borders, crossing boundaries' is the title of the Family Research Consortium...

Keep up with the latest month-by-month news in the youth field by subscribing to our free electronic newsletter.(Xtra)
June 1, 2005... Keep up with the latest month-by-month news in the youth field by subscribing to our free electronic newsletter. Just send a blank email message from your current email address to: yfx-on@mail-list.com

Youth, hope & cultural creatives: possible conceptual connections.(Peer reviewed)
June 1, 2005... Young people today face a number of significant challenges to their physical, emotional, social, psychological and cultural integrity. This qualitative study explores the phenomenon of hope in 10 young people, with the aim of establishing...

Australian adolescents' perceptions of their parents: an analysis of parenting styles, communication & feelings towards parents.(Peer reviewed)
June 1, 2005... Researchers have begun to acknowledge the importance of asking young people about their experience of parenting, yet critical gaps still exist in this area of knowledge. The current study compared styles of parenting with how Australian...

Youth homelessness: four policy proposals.(Peer reviewed)
June 1, 2005... Using data from four sources, Chris Chamberlain and David MacKenzie argue for the need for policies to build on existing 'good practice' in regard to early intervention for youth homelessness. The policies proposed involve the expansion of the...

On Track to what? A Foucauldian (1) analysis of a recent Victorian postcompulsory education policy initiative.(Peer reviewed)
June 1, 2005... Drawing on research findings, this article attempts an 'eventalisation' of the implementation of On Track, a recent initiative in Victorian postcompulsory education policy. Annelies Kamp argues that On Track can be understood as an act of...

Social change and youth partnership accountability work.(Programs & Practice)
June 1, 2005... Social change is challenging to achieve in community and youth sector contexts and may be supported or obstructed by agendas, agency and discourse, among other things. As a specific form of youth participation, youth partnership accountability...

Kathleen Stacey is the Managing Director and Principal Consultant at beyond ... (Kathleen Stacey & Associates) Pty Ltd.(Xtra)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Kathleen Stacey is the Managing Director and Principal Consultant at beyond...(Kathleen Stacey & Associates) Pty Ltd. She is also a Research Associate with the Australian Youth Research Centre, and currently is working on the 'Schools, VET and...

For a synopsis of the AMIGOS project, including participant feedback, see the University of Adelaide Library web site.(Xtra)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... For a synopsis of the AMIGOS project, including participant feedback, see the University of Adelaide Library web site at: .

Copies of papers by Owen (1996); Phillips, Stacey and Milner (2001) and Stacey et al. (2002).(Xtra)
June 1, 2005... Copies of papers by Owen (1996); Phillips, Stacey and Milner (2001) and Stacey et al. (2002), which are listed in the references, may be obtained for a cost of $6.60 each (including postage and handling) from ACYS, University of Tasmania,...

A new resource to involve children and young people in research was launched in May 2005.(Xtra)
June 1, 2005... A new resource to involve children and young people in research was launched in May 2005. 'Count me in!' is a practical resource developed by the NSW Commission for Children and Young People in collaboration with the Social Justice and Social...

Photovoice: promising practice in engaging young people who are homeless: Matt Dixon and Morgan Hadjialexiou present a creative approach to engaging young people who are homeless in health promotion activities and planning. They share their findings from a pilot project in Melbourne involving young people taking photographs as a means of communication and self expression.(Programs & practice)
June 1, 2005... Successful health promotion with young people who are homeless calls for creative approaches and committed workers who are prepared to learn from mistakes. It also requires the resources that allow for long lead-in times so that comprehensive...

Girl making: A cross-cultural ethnography on the processes of growing up female.(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Title: Girl making: A cross-cultural ethnography on the processes of growing up female Author: Gerry Bloustien Publisher: Berghahn Books Year of publication: 2003 ISBN: 1571814264 Pb Price: $42.95 Girl making by Gerry Bloustien is a...

Juvenile justice: Redeeming our children.(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Title: Juvenile justice: Redeeming our children Author: Barry Krisberg Publisher: Sage Publications Year of publication: 2005 ISBN: 0761925015 Pb Price: $63.00 This impressive book provides a brilliant and powerful snapshot of American...

JPET: helping young people get back on track.(Job Placement, Employment and Training)
June 1, 2005... The JPET (Job Placement, Employment and Training) programme is valued for the services it provides to homeless young people, to help this marginalised group change their situation for the better. JPET assists disadvantaged and disconnected...

What do children learn from being smacked? Messages from social science theory and research.(Abuse, child abuse)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... A.B. Smith, Childrenz Issues, v.8, n.2, 2004, pp.7-15. This volume of Childrenz Issues has the theme of 'Perspectives on Physical Punishment'. The first paper is a review of around 500 research articles on family discipline. The author...

The ritual abuse of children: a critical perspective.(Abuse, child abuse)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... K. McLeod & C. Goddard, Children Australia, v.30, n.1, 2005, pp.27-34. The first section of this paper investigates the 'discovery' of organised ritual abuse in the 1980s and reviews the literature, especially in relation to 'the...

Theory development and evaluation of Project WIN: a violence reduction program for early adolescents.(Bullying & violence)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... L. Roberts, G. White & P. Yoemans, Journal of Early Adolescence, v.24, n.4, 2004, pp.460-83. Integrative negotiation strategies have been developed which help adolescents to resolve potentially violent conflicts; however, these strategies...

Breaking into schools: Establishing high quality human services in educational contexts.(Care & protection)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... G. Winkworth & M. McArthur, Children Australia, v.30, n.1, 2005, pp.19-26. In 2001, the ACT Government launched a program called Schools as Communities, which contained two subprograms. The first subprogram involved basing community...

What makes a good life? A broad view of the health benefits of education.(Education)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... R. Eckersley, Healthy minds, healthy bodies, healthy nation: Connecting education and health, College Year Book 2004, pp.63-72. Although studies have typically reported correlations between per capita income and indicators of quality of...

Gender and class in the lives of young hairdressers: from serious to spectacular.(Gender)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... J. Lindsay, Journal of Youth Studies, v.7, n.3, 2004, pp.259-77. Using data from a focus group study of 31 apprentice hairdressers, average age 19, in Melbourne, the author found that subjects negotiated a continuum from security ('the...

Social connectedness of young people: converging agenda in health and education.(Health)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... S. Glover & G. Patton, Healthy minds, healthy bodies, healthy nation: Connecting education and health, College Year Book 2004, pp.20-29. Today, educational outcomes predict not only employment but also health, well-being and civic...

Untreated recovery from eating disorders.(Health)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... S. Woods, Adolescence, v.39, n.154, 2004, pp.61-71. Eighteen students aged 18 to 21 who had recovered from an eating disorder without treatment completed an email survey advertised on an American university campus. All were competitive high...

Access to health care among Australian adolescents: Young people's perspectives and their socio-demographic distribution.(Health)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... M.L. Booth, D. Bernard, S. Quine, M.S. Kang, T. Usherwood, G. Alperstein & D. Bennett, Journal of Adolescent Health, v.34, n.1, 2004, pp.97-103. A qualitative study involving 81 focus groups each containing 10 boys or girls looked at...

Growing 'Couch potatoes': Television, computers and childhood obesity--a response to Gard.(Health)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... B. Hancox, Childrenz Issues, v.9, n.1, 2005, pp.32-36. In an earlier article in Childrenz Issues (v.8, n.1), Michael Gard argued that the 'coach potato' explanation of childhood obesity is based on ideological stance rather than scientific...

A reply to Hancox: the problem with medical and scientific thinking about obesity.(Health)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... M. Gard, Childrenz Issues, v.9, n.1, 2005, pp.37-39. Michael Gard replies to the paper summarised in the previous abstract. He and Jan Wright from the University of Wollongong have surveyed research into children, television and obesity....

Including our homeless kids: Education, mobility and homelessness.(Homelessness)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... L. Gibson, Parity, v.18, n.1, 2005, pp.37-3B. In 2002-2003, 53,800 children accompanied a guardian to a homeless service, while a further 11,000 children under the age of 15 accessed homeless services unaccompanied. In 2001, only 41% of the...

They don't take young people with mental health issues because they find it too challenging: Findings from Making a Place to Belong.(Homelessness)
June 1, 2005... D. Keys, Parity, v.18, n.1, 2005, pp.43-45. A qualitative study involving interviews and focus groups with managers, workers and young people in a non-representative sample looked at the reasons why young people are either excluded from or...

Adolescent loneliness assessment.(Mental health)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... M.C. Richaud de Minzi & C. Sacchi, Adolescence, v.39, n.156, 2004, pp.701-09. Loneliness has been attributed to both emotional isolation, the absence of close emotional attachment, and to social isolation--the absence of an engaging social...