The Washington State Office of Public Instruction conducted a project of venereal disease prevention through education during the 1974-75 school year to make training more accessible to educators. (MM)

Discusses four strategies for preventing school violence based on analysis of over 150 research studies: Do not tolerate student-to-student harassment in the school and classroom, promote a culture of tolerance and acceptance, reach out to students who are a little different, and provide opportunities for students to get to know each other. (PKP)

Current child sexual abuse prevention programs assume that, by targeting potential victims, they can reduce the prevalence of child sexual abuse. This article presents findings that suggest this assumption is flawed. Suggests instead that potential offenders are more appropriate targets of prevention programs. (Contains 39 references.)

This paper focuses on suicide reduction and prevention. It considers what the United Kingdom government associated bodies could do and are considering doing to prevent suicide in Britain. UK suicide statistics for the period of 1971 and 1997 are compared and the Highland Health Board suicide prevention strategy for the 1990s is considered.…

A wellness paradigm is presented and explored as a promising approach to preventing as well as treating delinquent behaviors among adolescent females. This approach is demonstrated using a case example from an inpatient adolescent treatment program. (Contains 55 references.) (GCP)

Describes five components of a comprehensive school-safety program: prevention measures, intervention strategies, academic excellence, partnerships, and crises response. (PKP)

In the present study, the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory- III (MCMI-III) was administered to 210 female inmates in a jail-based substance abuse prevention program. Analyses resulted in the following three cluster profiles: "normal" (no significant elevations), narcissistic, and antisocial. Hypotheses regarding the personality…

Describes a quick, simple tie-through suture technique (in which a collodion packing is secured to the auricle with two buttons) for preventing cauliflower ear following external ear trauma in wrestlers and boxers. The technique ensures constant compression; multiple treatments for fluid reaccumulation are rarely necessary. (SM)

Surveyed high school administrators (N=176) after they received substance abuse prevention/intervention training in Project Impact, based on social learning/community intervention model. Findings indicated that Impact was perceived as 5 to over 20 times as effective as any other prior strategies for combating substance abuse. (Author/NB)

Examined self-reported suicide ideation and suicide attempts among 2,393 Mexican-Americans and non-Hispanic whites. exican-Americans born in Mexico reported significantly lower age- and gender-adjusted lifetime rates of suicide thoughts than Mexican-Americans born in the United States, who reported significantly lower rates than non-Hispanic…

Broadly outlines scope of the problem of teenage pregnancy, some of its more obvious causes, and some of the long-term implications of not truly understanding the nature of the problem. Concludes with theoretical critique of social disorganizational, social definitional, and social organizational approaches to the problem of teenage pregnancy.…

Examines truancy characteristics, effective attendance policies, and workable attendance enforcement and remediation programs. One school district threatens habitual truants' parents with court action leading to fines and jail sentences. A worthy goal is encouraging both students and parents to take compulsory education statutes seriously. (MLH)

Responds to Albert Ellis' 1986 article which proposed to use rational-emotive therapy (RET) to save the world from religious and psychological fanatics and nuclear war. Attempts to provide a more balanced view of religion, RET, non-RET therapies, and the role of psychology in averting nuclear war. (Author/ABL)

Replies to Ken Wilber's critique of Albert Ellis'"Fanaticism that May Lead to a Nuclear Holocaust," which outlines some of the dangers of transpersonal psychology and psychotherapy. (Author)

The study interviewed 20 adult sexual offenders in treatment about the process whereby they selected, recruited, and maintained children in a sexual abuse situation. Implications for prevention of sexual abuse are highlighted. (Author/DB)