Adolescence articles from September 1993

Adolescence archives from September 1993

The value of the chest x-ray in making the diagnosis of bronchial asthma.
September 22, 1993... INTRODUCTION Although bronchial asthma is one of the most common chronic illnesses of children and young adults (Kaliner, Eggleston, & Mathews, 1987; Proceedings of the Asthma Mortality Task Force, 1987), with a prevalence of 3-5% (Proceedings...

An ecological approach to evaluating a special education program.
September 22, 1993... About fifteen percent of all children show mild behavioral problems, and about seven percent show moderate to severe disorders (Cotler, 1986). However, not enough has been done to treat or prevent these problems (Levine & Perkins, 1987). Even...

Attitudes of Mississippi college students toward David Duke before and after seeing the film 'Who Is David Duke?'
September 22, 1993... David Duke is one of the most interesting social and political phenomenons of recent times. A former head of the Ku Klux Klan and a former Nazi sympathizer, he has denied his racist past, saying it was youthful indiscretion. He is a member of the...

Assessing predictive abilities. (The Ability of Adolescents To Predict Future Outcome, part 1)
September 22, 1993... Journal of Adolescence, 14, 229-244. Seligman, M. E. P. (1975). Helplessness: On depression, development and death. San Francisco: Freeman. Sroufe, L. A. (1979). The coherence of individual development. American Psychologist, 34, 834-841....

Cognitive, psychosocial, and reported sexual behavior differences between pregnant and nonpregnant adolescents.
September 22, 1993... INTRODUCTION The one million annual adolescent pregnancies in the United States pose a variety of potential problems for both the mother and child. The more serious include health risks, dropping-out of school and losing employment...

Level of cultural mistrust as a function of educational and occupational expectations among black students.
September 22, 1993... An area of ongoing concern among minority educators and other professionals is the seeming lack of motivation among black students, especially males, to excel academically and pursue prestigious occupations. In general, black adolescents have...

Transition-marking behaviors of adolescent males at first intercourse.
September 22, 1993... INTRODUCTION Two "transition-marking" (Jessor & Jessor, 1975) behaviors, that is, behaviors that represent milestones in the transition from adolescence to adulthood, have been given considerable attention in the research literature. The onset...

Risk assessment for human immunodeficiency virus among pregnant Hispanic adolescents.
September 22, 1993... INTRODUCTION The number of persons reported with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) in the United States exceeded 200,000 by the end of 1991 (Centers for Disease Control, 1992). Adolescents and young adults 13-24 years of age accounted...

Adolescents and AIDS: knowledge and attitude.
September 22, 1993... Primary prevention of AIDS remains uncoordinated, underfunded, and limited in scope because of public perception that there is no generalized threat of AIDS in the mainstream population (Bowser, 1991). However, as a result of the Magic Johnson...

Correlates of Bulimia nervosa: early family mealtime experiences.
September 22, 1993... Bulimia nervosa, only formally recognized by the American Psychiatric Association in 1980, is a disorder in which an individual rapidly consumes an unusually large amount of food. This "binge" is terminated by vomiting, laxative abuse, abdominal...

Lifestyle values of adolescents: results from Minnesota Heart Health Youth Program.
September 22, 1993... INTRODUCTION A great deal of attention is being paid to primary prevention of noncommunicable disease among children and adolescents. Such programs have a number of advantages over those implemented with adults. The most important may be the...

Suicidal thoughts among adolescents: an intercultural approach.
September 22, 1993... Most studies concerning the "suicide phenomenon" of young people aged 15-19 have analyzed mortality and to a lesser extent morbidity. In France, the suicide rate in 1987 was 14.7 for boys and 4.7 for girls (per 100,000). Concerning attempted...

Cognitive correlates of depressive symptoms in hospitalized adolescents.
September 22, 1993... The literature on depression in adolescence is very limited. While adult depression has been extensively studied, evidence for childhood depression as a distinct syndrome, with similar symptoms as the adult disorder, emerged only slightly over a...

The relationship of psychological adjustment to perceived family functioning among African-American adolescents.
September 22, 1993... INTRODUCTION The family of origin is defined as "the family in which a person has his or her beginnings--psychologically, psychically, and emotionally (Hovestadt, Anderson, Piercy, Cochran, & Fine, 1985). The role of family of origin in the...

Correlates of loneliness among Midwestern adolescents.
September 22, 1993... Loneliness is one of the most pervasive of human experiences, yet it is very difficult to define. Medora and Woodward (1986) defined it as a response to the absence of an adequate positive relationship to persons, places, or things. Peplau and...

Characteristics of adolescent felons in a prison treatment program.
September 22, 1993... For close to two years I worked as Senior Clinical Psychologist in a California state prison treatment program for youthful male offenders. Duties included individual and group therapy and writing parole board reports. The inmates were all felony...

The role of activity in adolescent development: a study of employment.
September 22, 1993... A considerable number of studies have concerned themselves with the issue of adolescent work values. Within the Australian context, O'Brien & Kabanoff (1979) found a significant difference between employed and unemployed groups, including youth...

Metacognitive aspects of moral reasoning and behavior.
September 22, 1993... A central task of moral development theory is to explain the relation between moral judgment and moral behavior. For both Piaget and Kohlberg, judgment is essential to the determination of actions as moral (Colby, Kohlberg, Gibbs, & Lieberman,...

Reflective monitoring in lonely adolescents.
September 22, 1993... INTRODUCTION Loneliness is prevalent among adolescents (Brennan & Anslander, 1979), and is related to a number of affective and cognition problems (Jones, Freeman, & Goswich, 1981). Loneliness is often a product of situational change (such as...

Perceived parental actions and evaluations of the family and its members.
September 22, 1993... Interpersonal familial problems (e.g., negative attitudes toward family members) have often been associated with traumatic events, such as parental divorce or death of a parent (Ambert & Saucier, 1983; Parish & Dostal, 1980; Parish & Kappes,...

Medical Family Therapy: A Biopsychosocial Approach To Families with Health Problems.
September 22, 1993... As medicine has moved from a general practice model based on family-oriented care and house calls to a more technologically sophisticated biomedical model often perceived as impersonal and emotionally sterile, patient care has come to suffer more...

Focal Group Psychotherapy.
September 22, 1993... Among the many varieties of group psychotherapy, there is enormous diversity in terms of format, goals, and the role of the leader. Many authors have comprehensively addressed the conceptual and theoretical aspects of the more traditional group...

Handbook of Psychotherapy Integration.
September 22, 1993... Contemporary psychotherapists have come to realize that, given the complexity of human behavior, no one theory can ever suffice to explain all situations, disorders, and clients. Over the past two decades, the ideological cold war and "dogma eat...

Couples in Treatment: Techniques and Approaches For Effective Practice.
September 22, 1993... The purpose of this book is to present some of the basic techniques, methods, and strategies needed by the couples therapist. Chapter 1 describes the comprehensive treatment of the couple using the Intersystem Model. Chapter 2 discusses...