Adolescence articles from June 1994

Adolescence archives from June 1994

The role of the black church in working with black adolescents.
June 22, 1994... The Black Church Family Project is a study of family-oriented community outreach programs provided by black churches. The survey data discussed in this paper reflects programming for youth development as reported in the two northern regions of...

An adolescent health and lifestyle guidance system.
June 22, 1994... Background Blum (1987) documented the growing problem of adolescent mortality and morbidity related to life style and risk-taking behavior. The death toll for teenagers from motor vehicle accidents, suicide, drug overdose, and AIDS has been...

Pride and prejudice in high school gang members.
June 22, 1994... This study evaluated self-esteem and racial attitudes of high school gang members compared to their uninvolved (nongang) peers. While previous research has documented linkages between ethnicity and self-esteem in adolescents, none have examined...

Social skills training to reduce depression in adolescents.
June 22, 1994... INTRODUCTION Depression and depressive disorders remain a pervasive problem in Western society (Albert & Beck, 1975; Schulterbrandt & Raskin, 1977; Rehm, 1981). The extent to which this problem affects adolescents has recently generated...

Sex, drugs, relationships, contraception, and fears of disease on a college campus over 17 years.
June 22, 1994... In 1974 a study of sexual behavior and its correlates was undertaken at a small northeastern liberal arts college (Murstein & Holden, 1979). The correlates included the use of drugs, religious background, self-perceived attractiveness, sexual...

Urban youth, fear of crime, and resulting defensive actions.
June 22, 1994... INTRODUCTION Fear of crime in the United States has become a significant social problem in the past twenty years (Lewis & Salem, 1986), resulting in considerable social, psychological, and economic costs to individuals and society. A problem...

Psychosocial stressors among depressed adolescent mothers.
June 22, 1994... Depression is a major problem for adolescent mothers. In a recent study on postpartum depression, mother's age was necessarily covaried as a result of the disproportionate number of adolescent mothers in a sample of randomly recruited depressed...

The relationship of self-esteem to selected personal and environmental resources of adolescents.
June 22, 1994... Theoretically, self-esteem can be conceptualized as a component of the overall self-concept (McCandless, 1970). Self-concept refers to the complex of beliefs about one's self; self-esteem refers to the value or sense of worth one perceives about...

Determinants of adolescent identity development: a cross-sequential study of boarding school boys.
June 22, 1994... This study sought to identify social and cognitive characteristics of adolescents associated with identity status. In brief, ego identity formation is the synthesis of external and internal forces by the individual who either enters into or...

Self-reported depressive symptoms in inner-city adolescents seeking routine health care.
June 22, 1994... Adolescence is a time of transition with a focus on becoming independent from parents and forming supportive links with peers and other adults. Stress-related problems may become more common and an increase in depression, suicidal ideation, and...

Postformal reasoning during adolescence and young adulthood: the influence of problem relevancy.
June 22, 1994... In an effort to more adequately conceptualize the nature of cognitive development following childhood and adolescence, several theorists (e.g., Arlin, 1984; Baltes, Dittmann-Kohli, & Dixon, 1985; Basseches, 1984; Labouvie-Vief, 1982; Kramer,...

Variance in substance use between rural black and white Mississippi high school students.
June 22, 1994... Alcohol and other drug use usually begins between the ages of 12 and 20 (DuPont, 1991). Patterns of use, which are established in youth, often persist into adulthood and contribute substantially to chronic disease (e.g., lung cancer, heart...

Family system characteristics and parental behaviors as predictors of adolescent substance use.
June 22, 1994... In recent years the role of family factors in adolescent substance use has received increased attention (Barnes, 1990). Much of this concern emphasizes the relationship between parental and adolescent substance use (Levine, 1985). Recent studies...

Using literature to help adolescents cope with problems. (bibliotherapy)
June 22, 1994... The use of literature to helping children cope with changes in their lives is referred to as bibliotherapy (a commonly accepted definition (Pardeck & Pardeck, 1993). A more detailed definition by Baker (1987) offers the various ways bibliotherapy...

Relationship between Jamaican adolescents' drinking partners and self-image: a cross-cultural perspective.
June 22, 1994... Research on alcohol use among adolescents has proliferated over the past decade. However, to date most of the relevant research has been conducted in cultures like the United States where even minimal alcohol use among children and adolescents is...

Psychosexual characteristics of female university students in Brazil.
June 22, 1994... INTRODUCTION To a great extent, the cultural context determines the manifestations of adolescence, although one cannot deny the importance of the psychological substratum which confers universal characteristics to this phase of development. A...

Clinical assessment of adolescents involved in Satanism.
June 22, 1994... An adolescent who practices Satanism recently said to the author, "I was a throwaway kid. Nobody wanted me and I needed a place to belong. I had a lust for power, and I needed to find a place where my violence was acceptable." This teenager is...

Height as a basis for interpersonal attraction.
June 22, 1994... American society appears to operate on the basis of a series of unstated yet pervasive social rules in date/mate selection. Not the least of these implicit criteria is the male-taller bias. The unwritten law of social interaction seems to be that...

The relationship between family variables and adolescent substance abuse: a literature review.
June 22, 1994... Substance abuse is a major problem confronting adolescents today. One out of every six teenagers suffers from chemical dependency (Thorne & DeBlassie, 1985). Adolescent drug addiction crosses a broad range of backgrounds (Thorne & DeBlassie,...

Suicide Prevention in the Schools: Guidelines for Middle and High School Settings.(Brief Article)
June 22, 1994... This book provides guidelines for faculty and staff in middle and high school settings who have been trained in appropriate use of the materials. These guidelines were formulated on the following assumptions: that persons working with young...

Structured Adolescent Psychotherapy Groups.(Brief Article)
June 22, 1994... This book is a distillation of the author's research and clinical work with adolescent psychotherapy groups, spanning twenty-eight years, in such settings as state mental hospitals, juvenile courts, mental health centers, group homes, outpatient...

Adolescent Storm and Stress: An Evaluation of the Mead-Freeman Controversy.(Brief Article)
June 22, 1994... In 1928, Margaret Mead published her first book, Coming of Age in Samoa, in which she described to the Western world an exotic culture where people passed through adolescence with a minimum of difficulties. In 1983, Derek Freeman, an Australian...

Talented Teenagers: The Roots of Success and Failure.(Brief Article)
June 22, 1994... Csikszentmihalyi and his colleagues studied 200 high school students over four years, observing their ongoing experiences to see how well they developed their talents. They sought to get a better idea about what happens in the minds of talented...

Independent Living Services for Youths in Out-of-Home Care.(Brief Article)
June 22, 1994... Youths in out-of-home care have special vulnerabilities and may need help and support that extend beyond that typically provided to youths cared for by parents or kin. Youths leaving out-of-home care may have histories of abuse, neglect, or...

Helping Transfer Students: Strategies for Educational and Social Readjustment.(Brief Article)
June 22, 1994... This book provides a comprehensive look at one of the most stressful and frequently occurring life events for children, and it offers educators, researchers, mental health professionals, and parents practical strategies for easing school...

It Isn't Fair! Siblings of Children with Disabilities.(Brief Article)
June 22, 1994... Selected and compiled from two decades of The Exceptional Parent magazine, this book reveals firsthand the myriad feelings of "normal" brothers and sisters at all stages as they grapple with caretaking, frustration, powerlessness, jealousy,...

Handbook of Child and Adolescent Treatment Manuals.(Brief Article)
June 22, 1994... This handbook provides practitioners, researchers, and students with specific methods and procedures used in practice with children and adolescents. Each chapter is a specific treatment guide that has been tested and refined through use,...

Better Understanding Learning Disabilities: New Views from Research and Their Implications for Education and Public Policies.(Brief Article)
June 22, 1994... The learning disabilities field is plagued by much controversy and confusion--confusion that stems from disagreements about definition, assessment, etiology, and the efficacy of interventions. Emanating from a National Institute of Child Health...

At-Risk Youth: A Comprehensive Response.(Brief Article)
June 22, 1994... At-risk behaviors are the biggest single problem of youth today, a topic of growing importance in the fields of psychology, counseling, and education. Whether the term "at-risk" connotes a local school district's problems with youth suicide and...

Promoting the Health of Adolescents: New Directions for the Twenty-First Century.(Brief Article)
June 22, 1994... Chronic diseases and premature death can often be linked to social, environmental, and behavioral factors that are subject to modification, especially during adolescence when many habits--good and bad--are formed. In order to effectively...