Adolescence articles from June 2003

Adolescence archives from June 2003

The social reality of the imaginary audience: a grounded theory approach.(adolescent psychology)
June 22, 2003... INTRODUCTION It has been argued that the traditional understanding of the adolescent experience is outdated (Hendry et al., 1993). A large part of this argument stems from the recognition that traditional research methods have tended to...

"You learn and learn and learn.... and then you are an adult": parental perceptions of adolescence in contemporary Swaziland.
June 22, 2003... The universality of adolescence, as a developmental period apart from childhood and adulthood, has been investigated, debated, and romanticized in the literature both historically and cross-culturally. This paper examines Swaziland, a small...

Impact of exposure to community violence and psychological symptoms on college performance among students of color.
June 22, 2003... This paper is concerned with the longitudinal relationships among exposure to chronic community violence during the high school years, the level of psychological distress manifested during the first semester of college, and academic performance...

Incarcerated adolescent girls: personality, social competence, and delinquency.
June 22, 2003... There are several theories that try to explain juvenile delinquency. The present study confines itself to investigating personality traits and social competence as predictors of delinquency in adolescent girls. Personality Traits as...

The relationship between the living arrangements of university students and their identity development.
June 22, 2003... It has been established that a major developmental task of late adolescence/young adulthood is the formation of a unique adult identity (Erikson, 1968, 1982; Marcia, 1980). One part of this process is leaving the family home and establishing a...

Salient worries of at-risk youth: needs assessment using the things I worry about scale.
June 22, 2003... Worry has been defined as "a chain of negative and relatively uncontrollable thoughts and images" (Borkovec, Robinson, Pruzinsky, & Depree, 1983). Borkovec et al. (1983) go on to say that worry may be engaged in by an individual to serve the...

Dissociative experiences and anger proneness in late adolescent females with different attachment styles.
June 22, 2003... Bowlby's attachment theory (Bowlby, 1969, 1973, 1980) pointed out the evolutionary function of the mother-child relationship, which inspired Ainsworth's research on the "Strange Situation" (Ainsworth et al., 1978)--a structured observational...

Feeling at home in one's school: a first look at a new measure.
June 22, 2003... In light of recent events involving extreme violence in schools, commentators have drawn the conclusion that there is a strong connection between being bullied, social isolation, and lashing out violently towards peers (Nansel, Overpeck, Pilla,...

Coping assessment in adolescents.
June 22, 2003... Lazarus developed the Ways of Coping Checklist (WCC) in the 1970s. It was based on the transactional model of stress, which posited two types of coping: problem-focused and emotional regulation (Lazarus, 1991). This instrument has always had a...

Dream content of schizophrenic, nonschizophrenic mentally ill, and community control adolescents.
June 22, 2003... Psychoanalytic and psychodynamic literature has identified various functions of dream content. Freud (1958) claimed that dreams serve as a medium for the discharge of conflict and impulses in a more subtle, acceptable, and less...

Medical decision-making and minors: issues of consent and assent.
June 22, 2003... In recent years, the physician-patient relationship has transformed from one of paternalism into an egalitarian and participatory partnership in which patients and physicians work together to make healthcare decisions (Committee on Bioethics,...

Expressed attitudes of adolescents toward marriage and family life.
June 22, 2003... Nontraditional behaviors with respect to sex, family, and gender roles have become increasingly widespread and more socially accepted (Barber & Axinn, 1998; Lye & Waldron, 1997; Werner-Wilson, 1998; Wu & Baer, 1994). The traditional, "nuclear"...

Jamaican child-rearing practices: the role of corporal punishment.
June 22, 2003... Parents in all societies grapple with how to raise their children in a way that prepares them for the complexities of life (Yorburg, 2002) and equips them to one day become parents themselves (Hamner & Turner, 2001). In order to accomplish this...

Avery, Christopher, Fairbanks, Andrew, Zeckhauser, Richard. The Early Admissions Game: Joining the Elite.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003. 377pp. $29.95 (h). Each year, hundreds of thousands of high school seniors compete in a game they will play only once, a game whose rules they do not fully understand, yet whose consequences...

Barell, John. Developing More Curious Minds.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2003... Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 2003. 250pp. 25.95 (p). Drawing on anecdotes from educators and his own life, Barell describes practical strategies to spur students' ability and willingness to pose...

Baris, Mitchell A., Coates, Christine A., Duvall, Betsy B., Garrity, Carla B., Johnson, Elaine T., & Lacrosse, E. Robert. Working with High-Conflict Families of Divorce: A Guide for Professionals.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2003... Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson, 2001. 320pp. $45 (h). Families engaged in contentious, highly adversarial, and prolonged conflict before and during divorce often remain embattled afterward as well. As professionals are increasingly being...

Baxter, Grant, & Stuart, Wendy. Death and the Adolescent: a Resource Handbook for Bereavement Support Groups in Schools.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2003... Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999. 120pp. $30(h), $19.95(p) The death of a loved one can create special challenges for adolescents. This manual provides information, guidelines, and suggestions for parents, teachers, and other...

Berman, Jeffrey. Risky Writing: Self-Disclosure and Self-Transformation in the Classroom.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2003... Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2001. 320pp. $60.00 (h), $19.95 (p). This is the final volume in a trilogy of works that examine the impact of writing and reading about traumatic subjects. Diaries to an English Professor...

Bertolino, Bob, & Schultheis, Gary. The Therapist's Notebook for Families: Solution-Oriented Exercises for Working with Parents, Children, and Adolescents.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... New York: Haworth Clinical Practice Press, 2002. 266pp. $39.95 (p). The Therapist's Notebook for Families: Solution-Oriented Exercises for Working with Parents, Children, and Adolescents empowers mental health professionals with clear,...

Bornstein, Marc H., Davidson, Lucy, Keyes, Corey L., Moore, Kristin, A., & The Center for Child Well-Being (Eds.). Well-Being: Positive Development Across the Life Course.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2003... Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2003. 616pp. $65.00 (h). This volume derived from original presentations given at a conference in Atlanta, Georgia, under the auspices of the Center for Child Well-Being. Scholars, practitioners,...

Boss, Pauline (Ed.), with Mulligan, Carol. Family Stress: Classic and Contemporary Readings.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2003... Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 2003. 360pp. $39.95 (p). Why do some families rebound from stress with seeming ease while others seem to struggle? This anthology, comprised of 23 major articles from the family stress literature, addresses...

Brabender, Virginia. Introduction to Group Therapy.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2003... New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2002. 552pp. $80.95 (h). In this up-to-date text, Brabender provides balanced coverage of the major treatment approaches and provides a solid background of both why and how effective group therapy is practiced....

Branch, Curtis W. (Ed.). Adolescent Gangs: Old Issues, New Approaches.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2003... Philadelphia: Brunner/Mazel, 1999. 230pp. $34.95 (p). The issue of youth violence is of growing concern in America's communities. In many settings, the violence perpetrated and experienced by young people is the result of the behavior of...

Bruce, Elizabeth J., & Schultz, Cynthia L. Nonfinite Loss and Grief: a Psychoeducational Approach.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2003... Baltimore, MD: Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co., 2001. 280pp. $29 95 (p). "My son has made great strides over the years. Yet I often wonder what he would have been like if he didn't have autism, what our lives as parents would have been...

Childress, Herb. Landscapes of Betrayal, Landscapes of Joy: Curtisville in the Lives of Its Teenagers.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2003... Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000. 351pp. $18.50 (h), $17.95 (p). Landscapes of Betrayal, Landscapes of Joy provides a rare glimpse into the world of teenagers, from beach parties to bedrooms, from the math class to the...

Ciarrocchi, Joseph W. Counseling Problem Gamblers: a Self-Regulation Manual for Individual and Family Therapy.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2003... San Diego: Academic Press, 2002. 340pp. $44.95 (p). Problem gambling is on the increase, with devastating effects on family finances and relationships. Counseling Problem Gamblers pulls together clinical wisdom and research findings into a...

Cote, James E., & Levine, Charles G. Identity Formation, Agency, and Culture: A Social Psychological Synthesis.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2003... Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2002. 247pp. $59.95 (h), $27.50 (p). Forming and sustaining a sense of identity is more problematic today in many societies for a variety of reasons. As a result, we are witnessing a proliferation...

Davidson, Richard J., Scherer, Klaus R., & Goldsmith, H. Hill. (Eds.). Handbook of Affective Sciences.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2003... New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. 1230pp. $165.00 (h). This volume is a comprehensive roadmap to the burgeoning area of affective sciences, which now spans several disciplines. It brings together, for the first time, the various...

De Rios, Marlene D. Brief Psychotherapy with the Latino Immigrant Client.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2003... New York: The Haworth Press, 2001. 192pp. $49.95 (h), $24.95 (p). Brief Psychotherapy with the Latino Immigrant Client is a manual for the practicing psychotherapist or student, with tips on the assessment process and suggested...

Douglas, Tom. Basic Groupwork (Second Edition).(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... New York: Routledge, 2000. 168pp. $95.00 (h), $29.95 (p). Basic Groupwork is a simple, practical guide to the processes of groupwork. This new edition has been extensively updated and revised to reflect the changes which have taken place in...

Du Bois-Reymond, Manuela, Sunker, Heinz, & Kruger, Heinz-Hermann (Eds.). Childhood in Europe: Approaches-Trends-Findings.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2003... New York: Peter Lang, 2001. 344pp. $29.95 (p). For a long time, scientific knowledge on children and childhood was almost exclusively produced by educationalists and developmental psychologists. In recent years, however, a new approach...

Elium, Jeanne, & Elium, Don. Raising a Daughter: Parents and the Awakening of a Healthy Woman (Revised Ed.).(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Berkeley: Celestial Arts, 2003. 420pp. $14.95 (p). Society's confusing and often contradictory messages to girls and women make raising a daughter an especially daunting responsibility for any parent. Girls are born believing that they can...

Fisherkeller, JoEllen. Growing Up with Television: Everyday Learning Among Young Adolescents.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2003... Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2002. $69.50 (h), $19.95 (p). Why talk with young people about TV? This is the question from which Fisherkeller begins her insightful examination into the uses and power of TV in youth cultures....

Gold, Muriel. Therapy Through Drama: the Fictional Family.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2003... Springfield, IL: Charles C Thomas, 2000. 188pp. $44.95 (h), 27.95 (p). In Therapy Through Drama, the therapeutic applications of the fictional family technique are demonstrated. It describes its use with specific populations--family...

Goldberg, Carl. The Evil We Do: the Psychoanalysis of Destructive.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... People. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2000. 260pp. $25.00 (h). Based on his four decades of clinical experience, humanistic psychoanalyst Carl Goldberg uses case studies of apparently irredeemable and dangerous people from all walks of...

Hall, Philip S., & Hall, Nancy D. Educating Oppositional and Defiant Children.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2003... Alexandria: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 2003. 206pp. $25.95 (p). Using stories based on actual classroom cases, Hall and Hall illustrate the key concepts and techniques needed to successfully teach oppositional...

Hirigoyen, Marie-France (translated by Helen Marx). Stalking the Soul: Emotional Abuse and the Erosion of Identity.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2003... New York: Helen Marx Books, 2000. 211pp. $22.00 (h). It is possible to destroy someone simply with words, looks and innuendoes: it is called emotional abuse or moral harassment. In this study, the author analyzes, with numerous examples,...

Horowitz, Tamar, Kotik-Friedgut, Bella, & Hoffman, Stefani (Eds.). From Pacesetters to Dropouts: Post-Soviet Youth in Comparative Perspective.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2003... Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2003. 330pp. $64.00 (p). This book is a combined effort of scholars who participated in a conference on Post-Soviet Youth: A Comparative Study. The book focuses on the post-perestroika period, a time...

Hsiung, Robert C (Ed.). e-Therapy: Case Studies, Guiding Principles, and the Clinical Potential of the Internet.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2003... New York: W. W. Norton, 2002. 250pp. $25.00 (p). In a world of information that tends toward randomness, therapists and clinicians often need guidance regarding how best to use new technologies and yet not allow the chaos of new media to...

Irving, Howard H., & Benjamin, Michael. Therapeutic Family Mediation: Helping Families Resolve Conflict.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2003... Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2002. 424pp. $39.95 (p). Therapeutic Family Mediation is a practice-based text grounded in a therapeutic family mediation (TFM) model created by the authors. This is the first comprehensive treatment of...

Karp, David A. The Burden of Sympathy: How Families Cope with Mental Illness.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2003... New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. 340pp. $15.95 (p). Karp chronicles the experiences of the family members of the mentally ill, and how they draw "boundaries of sympathy" to avoid being engulfed by the day-to-day suffering of a loved...

Kramer-Moore, Daniela, & Moore, Michael. Life Imitates Art: Encounters Between Family Therapy and Literature.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2003... New York: The Solomon Press, 2002. 278pp. $29.95 (p). Both family therapy and literature deal with interpersonal conflict. Kramer-Moore and Moore make use of this common ground through a careful selection of literary excerpts to accompany...

Krestan, Jo-Ann (Ed.). Bridges to Recovery: Addiction, Family Therapy, and Multicultural Treatment.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2003... New York: The Free Press, 2000. 336pp. $34.95 (h). Bridges to Recovery brings together experts from three major fields within psychotherapy--family therapy, addiction counseling, and multicultural treatment--to provide a practical and...

Lantz, Jim. Meaning-Centered Marital and Family Therapy: Learning to Bear the Beams of Love.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2003... Springfield, IL: Charles C Thomas, Publisher, 2000. 166pp. $38.95 (h), $24.95 (p). The purpose of this book is to present a meaning-centered approach to psychotherapy with couples and families that is based upon an understanding of the...

Mayers, Marjorie. Street Kids & Streetscapes: Panhandling, Politics, & Prophecies.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... New York: Peter Lang, 2001. 192pp. $29.95 (p). Street Kids & Streetscapes explores the experience of kids living on the street. It is an original, insightful, and provocative hermeneutic examination of street kids' participation in panhandling...

McHale, James P., & Grolnick, Wendy S. (Eds.). Retrospect and Prospect in the Psychological Study of Families.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2003... Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2002. 378pp. $36.00 (h). What do we know about families? And how can this information be used to inform clinical intervention and public policy? Social science theory and research weigh in on these...

Morrissette, Patrick J. Self-Supervision: a Primer for Counselors and Helping Professionals.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2003... New York: Brunner-Routledge, 2001. 166pp. $19.95 (p). As any clinician will attest, the process of clinical supervision provides mental health professionals with the support and feedback necessary for effective treatment and continued...

Nowicki, Stephen, Jr., & Duke, Marshall. Will I Ever Fit In? The Breakthrough Program for Conquering Adult Dyssemia.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2003... New York: The Free Press, 2002. 256pp. $24.00 (h). People who have some form of dyssemia--a group reported to include as many as 25 million Americans--cannot readily understand nonverbal messages, much as dyslexics do not readily process...

O'Hanlon, Bill. A Guide to Inclusive Therapy: 26 Methods of Respectful, Resistance-Dissolving Therapy.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2003. 142pp. $13.00 (p). In this practical yet light-hearted guide, O'Hanlon synthesizes his experience in marriage and family therapy, counseling, hypnosis, and solution-focused therapies to form...

Reichman, Henry. Censorship and Selection: Issues and Answers for Schools.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2003... (Third Edition). Chicago: American Library Association, 2001. 232pp. $35.00 (p). Censorship--the word itself sparks debate, especially when the context is the public school. Since the publication of the second edition of this book in 1993,...

Reiss, Ira L., & Ellis, Albert. At the Dawn of the Sexual Revolution: Reflections on a Dialogue.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2003... Walnut Creek, CA: Altamira Press, 2002. 224pp. $70.00 (h), $29.95 (p). Long before the sexual revolution, Albert Ellis and Ira L. Reiss had been writing about sexuality in America. In the 1950s, the two social scientists began to exchange...

Reiss, Steven. Who Am I? The 16 Basic Desires that Motivate Our Actions and Define Our Personalities.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2003... New York: Berkley Books, 2000. 280pp. $13.95 (p). What do we want? What makes us tick? From acceptance to vengeance to curiosity, this book explains the 16 basic and universal desires that shape our behavior--and shows how the ways we...

Riley, Shirley. Group Process Made Visible: Group Art Therapy.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2003... Philadelphia, PA: Brunner-Routledge, 2001. 272pp. $29.95 (h). Group Process Made Visible demonstrates the usefulness of the language of art in enabling group therapists and their clients to understand group members' perceptions of...

Roberts, Stacey L. When the Breast Fairy Comes: Understanding and Communicating with Your Daughter During Adolescence.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2003... Berkeley: Celestial Arts, 2002. 200pp. $12.95 (p). Raging hormones, rolling eyes, screaming matches, and endless phone calls--the realities of daily life with an adolescent girl. As a parent, you expect the teen years to be tough, but they...

Sadowski, Michael (Ed.). Adolescents at School: Perspectives on Youth, Identity, and Education.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2003... Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press, 2003. 200pp. $49.95 (h), $24.95 (p). As any teacher or parent knows, adolescence is a time when youth grapple with the question, "Who am I?" The answers do not always come easily. Issues of race,...

Smoll, Frank L., & Smith, Ronald E. Children and Youth in Sport: a Biopsychosocial Perspective.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2003... (Second Edition). Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co., 2002. 640pp. $65.95 (p). Children and Youth in Sport offers a comprehensive, multidisciplinary view of issues of concern to youth sport educators, researchers, and program...

Starkey, Pat. Families and Social Workers: the Work of Family Service Units 1940-1985.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2003... United Kingdom: Liverpool University Press, 2000 (dist. by International Specialized Book Services). 279pp. $54.95 (h). Families and Social Workers examines the origins, development, and impact of Family Service Units, a voluntary social...

Steinmetz, Suzanne K., & Peterson, Gary W. (Eds.). Pioneering Paths in the Study of Families: the Lives and Careers of Family Scholars.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2003... New York: The Haworth Press, 2002. 906pp. $89.95 (p), $149.95 (h). In Pioneering Paths in the Study of Families: The Lives and Careers of Family Scholars, you will find forty autobiographies written by leading scholars in sociology, family...

Stewart, William. An A-Z of Counselling Theory and Practice (Third Edition).(Book Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2003... United Kingdom: Nelson Thornes, 2001 (distributed by International Specialized Book Services). 471pp. $34.50 (p). Using the successful A-Z format, the author gives a detailed yet comprehensible overview of both common and less-known...

Walsh, Froma. Strengthening Family Resilience.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2003... New York: The Guilford Press, 1998. 338pp. $35.00 (h). How do some families successfully weather crisis situations and adversity, while others weaken or even break apart? Focusing on what we can learn from resilient individuals and...

Walter, Virginia A., & Meyers, Elaine. Teens & Libraries: Getting It Right.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Chicago: American Library Association, 2003. 168pp. $32.00 (p). Libraries have opportunities to make a positive difference in the lives of teenage customers and become a primary support for teens in the communities they serve. Truly...

Weeks, Gerald R., & Gambescia, Nancy. Hypoactive Sexual Desire: Integrating Sex and Couple Therapy.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2003... New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2002. 252pp. $30.00 (h). The lack of sexual desire, known clinically as hypoactive sexual desire (HSD), is generally recognized as the most common sexual problem in America. Over 50% of couples presenting...

Wehrly, Bea, Kenney, Kelley R., & Kenney, Mark E. Counseling Multiracial Families.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2003... Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1999. 190pp. $97.95 (h), $37.95 (p). Multiracial families--families in which one member of the family has a different racial heritage than the other member(s) of the family--comprise a rapidly growing...

Williams, Patrick, & Davis, Deborah C. Therapist as Life Coach: Transforming Your Practice.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2003... New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2002. 216pp. $32.00 (h). Therapist as Life Coach explores life coaching as a profession, examines the relationship between life coaching and therapy, and details the variety of options for professionals...

Willie, Charles Vert, & Reddick, Richard J. A New Look at Black Families.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2003... (Fifth Edition). Walnut Creek, CA: Altamira Press, 2003. 192pp. $70.00 (h), $24.95 (p). Charles Willie's A New Look at Black Families has introduced thousands of students to the intricacies of the Black family in American society since its...

Zeitlin, Steve, & Harlow, Ilana. Giving a Voice to Sorrow: Personal Responses to Death and Mourning.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2003... New York: Perigee, 2001. 240pp. $13.95 (p). There are no rules for mourning. There is no time frame for grieving. At this intensely personal, deeply emotional time, each of us must find our own path to enduring loss. An intimate grief...