Adolescence articles from December 1993

Adolescence archives from December 1993

Therapeutic enhancement of predictive skills. (The Ability of Adolescents to Predict Future Outcome, part 2)
December 22, 1993... INTRODUCTION Many adolescent mothers have difficulty envisioning their future relationship with their infants as developmental skills consolidate because the adolescent is simultaneously in the process of negotiating her own developmental...

Adolescent affective aggression: an intervention model.
December 22, 1993... Although we see, hear, and read about the aggressive nature of our society on a daily basis, the alarming statistics on aggressive behavior by our nation's youth bring the problem into focus. Over 41 million aggressive crimes were reported in the...

Death as portrayed to adolescents through top 40 rock and roll music.
December 22, 1993... INTRODUCTION The influence of popular media in American culture has been widely studied (e.g., Wartella & Reeves, 1985). In particular, rock and roll music is one of the many elements of popular media to be analyzed as an integral part of...

Occupational identity development, school performance, and social support in adolescence: findings of a Dutch study.
December 22, 1993... INTRODUCTION According to Erikson (1968), the most important developmental task in adolescence is the formation of an identity. Marcia's (1966) identity status model is held to be the major elaboration of Erikson's views on identity formation...

Correlates of suicidal ideation in French-Canadian adolescents: personal variables, stress, and social support.
December 22, 1993... Following an alarming rise in suicide rates during the past few decades, it now ranks among the major causes of death in the Province of Quebec (Charron, 1981). Rates for adolescents in particular have increased (National Task Force on Suicide in...

Risk factors associated with completed suicide in Latino adolescents.
December 22, 1993... Since 1960 the adolescent suicide rate has more than tripled, making suicide now the second leading cause of death among teenagers, after automobile accidents. Specifically, between 1960 and 1988, the suicide rate for teenagers 15 to 19 years of...

Risk factors for adolescent suicidal behavior: loss, insufficient familial support, and hopelessness.
December 22, 1993... The precipitous increase in the adolescent suicide rate over the past three decades has been well documented (Berger & Thompson, 1991; Den Houter, 1981). This rapid rise has led to much research aimed at determining high-risk groups and...

Adolescent runaways and family strife: a conflict-induced differentiation framework.
December 22, 1993... Each year hundreds of thousands of American youth run away from home, leaving their families for life on the streets. While running away may temporarily fulfill a desire by some for adventure, life on the streets often brings exploitation and...

Spanning the gender gap: gender differences in delinquency among inner-city adolescents.
December 22, 1993... Currently, there is considerably controversy over the adequacy of current theories about female deviance (Smith & Paternoster, 1987). Most theories of deviance were developed and tested exclusively with males. Consequently, some scholars have...

Adoption as an option for unmarried pregnant teens.
December 22, 1993... INTRODUCTION In the United States, adolescent pregnancy and child rearing is recognized as a contemporary health and social problem because of its sustained high rate compared to other developed nations, and its association with other social...

Gender differences in the expression of depressive symptoms in middle adolescents: an extension of earlier findings.
December 22, 1993... Epidemiological studies in Western culture consistently report a higher rate of unipolar depression for females than males (e.g., Baron & Perron, 1986; Nolen-Hoeksema, 1987). Based on research demonstrating that expression of depressive...

Toward a new understanding of early menarche: the role of environmental stress in pubertal timing.
December 22, 1993... The transition into adolescence is considered to be a significant developmental period as this life stage brings with it numerous biological, cognitive, and social changes (Conger, 1984). Typically, the onset of puberty has been viewed as a...

Psychosocial correlates of adolescent drug involvement.
December 22, 1993... INTRODUCTION Substance abuse has the identifying characteristics of other major diseases: it is primary, chronic, treatable, and can be fatal if not treated. Treatment of substance abuse also parallels treatment strategies of other major...

Father's unemployment and adolescent's self-concept.
December 22, 1993... Many studies have focused on the impact of unemployment on workers as individuals (e.g., Brenner 1973; Dooley & Catalano 1978), but few have assessed the impact of unemployment on family members or on their relationships. Recent studies of the...

Middle adolescents' views of war and American military involvement in the Persian Gulf.
December 22, 1993... On January 16, 1991, the United States, with the concurrence of the United Nations and the support of several allies, began armed hostilities against the Iraqi army of Saddam Hussein. The justification for the U.S.-led action was that it was in...

Perceptions of parental control and the development of indecision among late adolescent females.
December 22, 1993... Research indicates that parental authority may have an impact on the academic performance of children (Dornbusch, Ritter, Leiderman, Roberts, & Froleigh, (1987), adolescent development of autonomy (Pardeck & Pardeck, 1990), and prosocial values...

Student-faculty informal interaction and the effect on college student outcomes: a review of the literature.
December 22, 1993... An underlying assumption for many in American higher education is that there is a relationship between student and faculty that extends beyond formal interaction. Educationally, the notion seems sound. The value of college transcends the...

The Reconstruction of Family Policy.
December 22, 1993... During the past decade, the appropriate role of government in society has been subjected to a sweeping reevaluation throughout the world. An important element in this ongoing debate has been a reappraisal of the form and magnitude of public...

Healing the Incest Wound: Adult Survivors in Therapy.
December 22, 1993... Increasing numbers of women who were abused incestuously as children are now seeking therapy for problems related to their abuse. This book provides the special knowledge and clinical guidelines that therapists need to help these women....

Exiles from Eden: Psychotherapy from an Evolutionary Perspective.
December 22, 1993... This book brings us face to face with a dilemma. Humans have genes that evolved to help us overcome the challenges of the wild, but those genes are not necessarily helpful in today's complex environment. Bringing together findings from...

Women and Power: Perspectives for Family Therapy.
December 22, 1993... Recognizing power as a central organizing principle in families, the contributors address many thorny questions, highlighting the different cultural messages for women and men concerning not only access to power, but also desirability of power,...

The Empathic Imagination.
December 22, 1993... How does one begin to approximate the inner experience of another? This enigmatic goal, empathy, is at the heart of the workaday world of the therapist, and is a pursuit that streams paradox in its wake. And though empathy has been much explored...