Adolescence articles from March 1993

Adolescence archives from March 1993

Parental consent: factors influencing adolescent disclosure regarding abortion.
March 22, 1993... INTRODUCTION Little information exists about the decision-making processes of pregnant adolescents. In the present legal climate where some states are mandating parental permission prior to teenage abortions, little is known about the nature...

Case study training for seeing school through adolescents' eyes.
March 22, 1993... INTRODUCTION This paper describes the first of two years of training in case study activities, adapted from the program originally developed by Fritz Redl, Daniel A. Prescott, and others at the Universities of Chicago and Maryland in the 1940s...

Indicators of commitment to the church: a longitudinal study of church-affiliated youth.
March 22, 1993... INTRODUCTION According to Wieting (1975), "A recurrent focus of social philosophy since Plato's Republic has been the threat posed by the possibility that the young might not adopt the essential wisdom and values of that society. . . . If a...

The relationship of family structure and family conflict to adjustment in young adult college students.
March 22, 1993... The relationship between family structure and child adjustment has been widely studied. The literature on divorce of the past 50 years contains dozens of studies of the relationship between family structure and various measures of child...

Predictors of depression in street youth.
March 22, 1993... The past few years have seen an increased interest in studies of mental illness among homeless populations. Some mental illness may be attributed to homelessness (Morrissey & Dennis, 1986), and the deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill has...

Gender differences in identity development: an examination of longitudinal data.
March 22, 1993... Identity development, as theorized by Erikson (1968) over twenty years ago, is the focus of psychosocial development during the adolescent years. Of the "eight stages of man," the fifth stage, identity achievement versus role confusion, involves...

Premarital sexuality: a five-year follow-up study of attitudes and behavior by dating stage.
March 22, 1993... The primary purpose of this study was to examine the state of premarital sexual attitudes and behavior among college students during the 1980s. Respondents surveyed in 1988 were compared to those studied in 1983. Data from both studies permit us...

Female adolescent contraceptive decision making and risk taking.
March 22, 1993... Although research on the antecedents of adolescent contraceptive usage has focused on a wide variety of areas (e.g., personality and motivation, demography), the present research concerns the adolescent's ability to make decisions pertaining to...

Personal adjustment during pregnancy and adolescent parenting.
March 22, 1993... This study examined "naturally occurring differences" in personal adjustment (social competence, behavior problems, and problem-solving skills) among representative groups of pregnant and nonpregnant adolescents and pregnant adults. Differences...

Sexual abuse in male children and adolescents: indicators, effects, and treatments.
March 22, 1993... INTRODUCTION Matthew was a frail, shy child who had difficulty relating with peers, boys and girls alike. He was especially fearful of adults, having been raised in a strict and puritanical home. His interpersonal difficulties led to his being...

Under pressure program: using live theatre to investigate adolescents' attitudes and behavior related to drug and alcohol abuse education and prevention.
March 22, 1993... INTRODUCTION Alcohol and other drugs have drastically permeated our society. Throughout adolescents' school careers, and indeed their lives, most will be faced with many drug-related decisions, that is, whether to abstain or to use alcohol and...

The prevalence of depression in a high school population.
March 22, 1993... An increasing number of articles, books, and conferences attest to the growing attention being paid to depression in children and adolescents. While few authors question its existence (Chartier & Ranieri, 1984), there is a general lack of...

Variables related to romanticism and self-esteem in pregnant teenagers.
March 22, 1993... Adolescence is considered a time of identity versus role confusion (Erikson, 1968). According to Grotevant and Cooper (1986), adolescence is characterized by the process of individuation and separation. It is a time of identity development...

Parricide rates and criminal street violence in the United States: is there a correlation?
March 22, 1993... Megargee (1982) has suggested that family violence is fundamentally different from general violence and should be examined separately. Street criminals use violence in a deliberate, hedonistic way to gain material goods, status, and other social...

Identity choices in immigrant adolescent females.
March 22, 1993... Ego identity, according to Erikson's (1968) theory of psychosocial development, is the "more or less actually attained but forever to be revised sense of the self within social reality", and the development of a sense of identity is the key...

Perceived actions of parents and attitudes of youth.
March 22, 1993... In 1988, Parish reported that perceived loving actions by parents were significantly correlated with college students' self-concepts, but not their evaluations of parents. In that study, parents' actions toward one another were surveyed on the...

Dressing in costume and the use of alcohol, marijuana, and other drugs by college students.
March 22, 1993... INTRODUCTION Halloween is a major social event on many college campuses, one often celebrated by dressing in costume. Hill and Relethford (1979) found that approximately 75% of the students on two northeastern campuses participated in...

Student responsibility for learning.
March 22, 1993... Many teachers complain about the problem of getting students to be responsible for their own learning. If word of mouth is an indicator, this problem is serious and becoming more so. This paper presents the results of a study utilizing Morris's...

The effects of traditional family values on the coming out process of gay male adolescents.
March 22, 1993... Adolescence is a time of self-discovery (Cates, 1987; Mercier & Berger, 1989; Newman & Newman, 1984; Schickedanz, Hansen, & Forsyth, 1990). Adolescents continue to individuate as they integrate accumulated and newly discovered roles, role...

The religiosity of mothers and their offspring as related to the offspring's sex and sexual orientation.
March 22, 1993... Many attitudes have been found to correlate positively across generations (Payne, Summers, & Stewart, 1973; Tolor, 1976; Newport, 1979), including attitudes surrounding religion (Barclay & Sharp, 1982). However, a study by Hodge and Treiman...

Self-concept and academic performance in gifted and academically weak students.
March 22, 1993... A number of studies have supported the contention that positive self-concept and academic achievement are closely interwoven (Beck, 1984; Purkey, 1970). Fitts (1972) has suggested that persons with optimal self-concept are apt to use their...

Family, Self, and Society: Toward a New Agenda for Family Research.
March 22, 1993... The goal of this book is to make more explicit how family scholars think about families in order to study them and understand them. To illustrate the need for diversity in family studies, examples from new and old families, majority and minority...

The Role of Parents in the Development of Child's Peer Acceptance.
March 22, 1993... One of the most important tasks of childhood is to develop and maintain socially competent relationships with peers. There are dramatic differences in the experiences children have with their peers; some are easily accepted and liked by peers,...

Divided Families: What Happens to Children When Parents Part.
March 22, 1993... What are the effects of divorce on children and their parents? The question is familiar; the answers are numerous, bewildering, and mostly gloomy. In this book, two leading experts on the family draw a decidedly more hopeful picture of the...

Out of Our Minds: How to Cope with the Everyday Problems of the Mentally Ill-A Guide for Patients and Their Families.
March 22, 1993... More and more kinds of behavior are being defined as psychotic in nature. For parents whose children suffer from mental illness, the question of what is really "crazy" takes on great import. They know that something is terribly wrong with their...

Women, Girls and Psychotherapy: Reframing Resistance.
March 22, 1993... What are the unique problems facing adolescent girls? How do they "make it through" the teenage years? What special strengths do these girls show during their growing-up years? How do their experiences as teenagers affect their adulthood? These...

Shyness and Love: Causes, Consequences, and Treatment.
March 22, 1993... Love-shyness is a degree of social inhibition regarding the opposite sex that is sufficiently severe as to prevent participation in courtship, marriage, and family roles. This book reviews the sociological, psychological, neurological, and...

Adolescent Sexuality.
March 22, 1993... This volume provides scholars, practitioners, and students with an overview of adolescent sexuality. Chapters include: historical and theoretical perspectives on adolescent sexuality; anatomy, physiology, and gender issues in adolescence; sexual...

Finding Herself: Pathways to Identity Development in Women.
March 22, 1993... This book examines how women go about the task of finding their individual identities. Going beyond other research on female psychology, which is often limited to the study of women psychotherapy patients, Josselson chooses ordinary women as...

Fundamental Approaches to Single Subject Design and Analysis.
March 22, 1993... Single subject research is needed to answer questions about the effects of specific treatments on individuals over time. Information from single subject studies helps to document how individuals change. With single subject methodology there is no...

Why People Kill Themselves: A 1990s Summary of Research Findings on Suicidal Behavior.
March 22, 1993... This volume reviews theory and research published on suicide in the 1980s. Chapters include: the inheritance of suicidal inclinations, physiological factors in suicide, sex differences, childhood experiences, sociological theories, the...

Stepfamilies in Therapy: Understanding Systems, Assessment, and Intervention.
March 22, 1993... With high rates of divorce and remarriage in the United States, the stepfamily is becoming increasingly prevalent in American society. Yet human service professionals faced with helping stepfamilies have received little professional training on...

Law for the Psychotherapist.
March 22, 1993... For practicing psychotherapists this book may be seen as a survival guide to the legal system. It provides general guidance on the major legal issues affecting psychotherapists, specific recommendations on such topics as giving testimony or...

Antisocial Boys.
March 22, 1993... This text describes the models of antisocial behavior and delinquency that have been developed by Patterson and his colleagues based on the findings from their ongoing longitudinal study. Relevant studies by other investigators also are carefully...

Act for Health: Using Theater to Teach Tough Teen Topics.
March 22, 1993... Drug and alcohol abuse, HIV/AIDS, suicide, and sexual abuse are just a few of the issues that young adults may be reluctant to address in a traditional classroom lesson. Writing their own drama, music, and poetry enables students to examine and...

Social Bonds and Teen Pregnancy.
March 22, 1993... Nearly eight out of ten homeless and runaway young girls between the ages of thirteen and twenty have given birth to at least one child. This volume reports on a recent study of pregnant and parenting runaway and homeless girls found on American...

Peer Mediation: Conflict Resolution in Schools.
March 22, 1993... This comprehensive training program provides all the information needed to organize and implement a successful peer mediation program with students in grades 6 through 12. Peer mediation is a nonadversarial process in which student mediators help...

The Silent Twins.
March 22, 1993... Wallace presents the true story of identical twin girls who from early childhood refused to speak to any adult. Instead, they developed an elaborate fantasy life that was based on dolls (representations of themselves that they ritually loved and...