Adolescence articles from March 1995

Adolescence archives from March 1995

New directions for research in prevention and treatment of delinquency: a review and proposal.
March 22, 1995... INTRODUCTION The literature describing various approaches to the prevention, control, and treatment of delinquency can be differentiated according to the theories of causation which shaped them; that is, the focus of intervention differs...

Talking with juvenile offenders about gay males and lesbians: implications for combating homophobia.
March 22, 1995... Homophobia(1) or anti-homosexual prejudice, has received much publicity in popular media as well as academic literature. This follows an increase in violence against gays and lesbians that, in the Australian context alone but not uniquely...

Change in maternal depressive mood: unique contributions to adolescent functioning over time.
March 22, 1995... There is substantial literature on the relationship between maternal depression and child adjustment (e.g., Downey & Coyne, 1990). Mothers diagnosed with major depressive disorder have been found to have children with higher rates of psychiatric...

Epidemiology and criminology.(Movie Portrayals of Juvenile Delinquency, part 1)
March 22, 1995... INTRODUCTION The motion picture industry began depicting delinquent youth in the 1930s, and the practice continues to the present day. Since the 1950s, youth between the ages of 12 and 20 have comprised about 40% of all admissions to American...

Reproductive and contraceptive knowledge, contraceptive self-efficacy, and contraceptive behavior among teenage women.
March 22, 1995... The relationship between reproductive and contraceptive knowledge (RCK) and contraceptive behavior has been studied extensively in an effort to address coitally active teenagers' ineffective patterns of contraceptive use. Educators have explored...

A case of family dysfunction and teenage suicide attempt: applicability of a family systems paradigm.
March 22, 1995... Family systems models have often been invoked in order to understand a variety of adjustment problems (Bowen, 1960; Minuchin, 1974), such as anorexia (Minuchin, Rosman, & Baker, 1978), and adolescent substance abuse (e.g., Pardeck, 1991). A...

Differences in adolescent self-concept as a function of race, geographic location, and pregnancy.
March 22, 1995... Extent of the Problem Adolescent pregnancy is widely recognized in our society as one of the most complex and serious health problems. Each year over 600,000 adolescent girls become parents (National Research Council, 1987). Part of the reason...

The changing paradigm of community health: the role of school-based health centers.
March 22, 1995... INTRODUCTION Providing health services in public schools is not a recent occurrence. In the 1890s health programs were launched in response to the large number of immigrant children who arrived in the United States and its "gateway" cities...

Effects of economic hardship on adolescent self-esteem: a family mediation model.
March 22, 1995... A Family Mediation Model In the past decade, many farm and nonfarm families in the midwestern United States experienced economic hardship due to the agricultural crisis in the farm belt (Jolly, 1986). The crisis started in the early 1980s and...

Adolescents' intimacy with parents and friends.
March 22, 1995... Separate literatures support the importance of intimate relationships of adolescents with parents and peers. In studies on adolescents' relationships with parents, the majority of adolescents have been noted to feel close to and get along with...

Assessing adolescents' prosocial behavior: the family helping inventory.
March 22, 1995... In the literature on helping behavior, there has been little emphasis on systematic investigation of helping within the family. Nevertheless, a great deal of helping and support does apparently occur within the family context. Generalizing about...

Family environments of adolescent sex offenders and other juvenile delinquents.
March 22, 1995... Prior to the 1980s, adolescent sex offenses were not taken seriously; typically they were explained as normal experimentation or developmental curiosity. The problem was either minimized or denied. Although research has mushroomed in the last...

Eating behavior in junior high school females.
March 22, 1995... Prevalence studies of bulimia strongly suggest that a significant number of adolescents binge eat and use radical means, such as vomiting and strict dieting, to control their weight (Herzog, 1982; Maceyko & Nagleberg, 1985). Several investigators...

Relationships of parents' perceived actions toward their children.
March 22, 1995... Research in the area of parent-child relationships has generally supported the notion that parents' actions affect children in various ways (Amaro, 1986; Baumrind, 1968). This view is in accordance with the parenting model proposed by Becker...

Young adult reactions to death in literature and in life.
March 22, 1995... Adolescence is characterized by contradictions. Although teenagers want to be heard and understood, they are often reluctant to express themselves. Although they have questions about acceptable ways to show grief, they may not want to be told how...

The relative effectiveness of a peer-led and adult-led smoking intervention program.
March 22, 1995... Most individuals who choose to smoke begin this behavior during adolescence, and peer influence is a known factor in the initiation of smoking behavior (Chassin, Presson, Sherman, & Edwards, 1990; Dusenbury, Botvin, & James-Ortiz, 1990; Flay,...

A teen hot line. (Carihi Secondary School's student volunteer-manned self-help telephone counseling service for teenagers in Campbell River, British Columbia, Canada)
March 22, 1995... The Teen Hot Line in Campbell River was developed in response to the large apparent need for teens to talk with their peers about important issues (Tindall & Gray, 1989). In order to reach out to as many youths as possible, a regularly scheduled...

Risk factors leading to adolescent substance abuse.
March 22, 1995... INTRODUCTION Adolescence is a time of change on biological, cognitive, and social levels. Adolescents are faced with new situations, one of which is the abuse of alcohol and other drugs. They may turn to alcohol and illicit drugs to alleviate...

Violent behaviors among African-American adolescents.
March 22, 1995... OVERVIEW Violent behaviors among African-American adolescents, has been an ongoing phenomenon for the past three decades. For example, a newspaper article entitled "Neighborhood Mourns Feud's Mistaken Victim," portrayed a fourteen-year-old...

There's a first time for everything: understanding adolescence.
March 22, 1995... Much has been written about the phenomenon of adolescence. Erikson developed the idea of the "identify crisis" (1963); Kohlberg (1971) discussed moral development, and Sullivan (1953) examined the place of the "chum" and peer relations in...

The role of socioeconomic status in adolescent literature.
March 22, 1995... An important theme in adolescent literature is how the socioeconomic status (SES) of a character or characters acts to reinforce the author's moral purpose in writing the novel. Central to this idea is the presumption that SES plays an important...

A study of underlying variables affecting aspirations of rural adolescents.
March 22, 1995... INTRODUCTION Student aspirations cannot be simply defined as individual dreams or ambitions (Quaglia, 1989). They are derived from a combination of personal and familial educational goals, vocational endeavors, and self-concept as it relates...