The mother of a five-year-old with partial growth hormone deficiency recounts how she and her son attempted to deal with the physical pain and emotional upheaval caused by the regular injections of human growth hormones she had to administer to the child. (CB)

Compared ego identity in adolescents identified as having behavioral problems with those reported not to have behavior problems. Found ego identity achievement, including trust, initiative, and identity, but not autonomy and industry, significantly greater in those without behavior problems. Adolescents who had achieved a higher degree of identity…

Measured family stress, resources, parental coping, and family types in families who had a child with myelomeningocele. Determined the relationships between the family characteristics, the child's health status, and number of active health problems based on level of impairment. Demonstrated an increasing level of family system involvement…

Describes a support group for women with relationship dependency focusing on friendship, decision making, and feelings. Issues discussed include loneliness, coping with loss, anger, and self-esteem. Guidelines for counselors are provided. (Author)

Presents ways female therapists may manifest co-dependent patterns in their work. Defines co-dependency as a pattern of beliefs, learned behaviors, and habitual feelings that make people more dependent on things outside themselves than they have to be. Offers suggestions for changing these behaviors. (Author/KS)

A program was designed to provide gifted preadolescent students with a better resistance to stress. Based on the stress inoculation procedure, the program's six sessions gradually exposed students to stressful situations through imagery techniques and role-playing, while helping them apply newly learned coping skills. (JDD)

Reviews current resource materials available to help educators, counselors, and others who work with rural families in an effort to support them in crisis, to facilitate their decision making and long-range planning, and to foster their problem-solving efforts. (Author)

Explored the experience of unemployment. Concludes that interventions which alleviate the negative factors (job rejections, financial pressures, nonproductive contacts with government agencies, ineffective job search activities, and the length of the job search process) are not sufficient to energize unemployed people for sustained job searches.…

Assessed relationship between adolescents' problem drinking and their perceptions of stressful relationships with people or situations. Results from survey of 1,684 secondary school students suggest that perceived stress may have role in etiology of adolescent problem drinking and should signal program planners in alcohol education to include…

Explored sensitizing effects of pretreatment assessment on posttreatment chemotherapy nausea and vomiting and interactive effects of personal dispositions for information seeking. Oncology patients rated side effects experienced previously (experimental condition), or parking conditions (control). Posttreatment, nausea of experimentals was…

Examines the coping strategies adopted by 50 infertile men and women. All interviewed had sought medical help, and many became knowledgeable about reproduction and infertility. Redefining the problem and managing negative concepts about infertility were other coping strategies. Seeking social support, positive identities, and other ways of meeting…

Describes the interpersonal cognitive problem solving (ICPS) skills approach for remediating peer relationship difficulties in children and adolescents. ICPS training studies are also reviewed. ICPS training seems effective as a remediation and primary prevention strategy with maladjusted youngsters and as a secondary prevention strategy with…

Proposes a precrisis curriculum for nursery and elementary schools to prepare healthy young children for hospitalization as an alternative to current preadmission preparation programs. Key elements include such stress-immunization techniques as systematic desensitization, modeling, and rehearsal. (AS)

Recognizes problems of resettlement for Australian migrant families, including the following: unemployment, inability to speak English, loss of the extended family, problems of maintaining an ethnic identity, role conflict, conflicting child rearing patterns with the host society, and locating resources and services. Ideas for helping families…

Examines the problems and needs of the estimated seven million children who are growing up in alcoholic home environments--and the implications for professionals involved with young children. (HOD)