Relates the experiences of a tenth grader as she has grown up keeping a journal and what purposes the journal has served. (SRT)

Relates resistance in adolescents to individual developmental issues and social context. Suggests viewing resistance as having a positive and protective function and working with the resistance rather than in opposition to it. A continuum of types of adolescent resistance is proposed with several specific interventional strategies for deactivating…

Discusses implications for career counseling of men and women in nontraditional occupations. Reviews two studies on occupational innovators which suggested that nontraditional employees described themselves as less sex typed than others. Discusses implications for career counseling with adolescents. (JAC)

Investigated differences between male and female offender and nonoffender youths (N=117) in social perspective-taking. Subjects completed the Defining Issues Test three times--as self, teacher, and police officer. Results indicated 14- and 15-year-old offenders and nonoffenders do not differ in perspective-taking ability across three social roles.…

Americans can learn from the British the vital importance of having a positive developmental approach to working with adolescents. (Author/MLF)

Psychosocial crises may inhibit the ability of adolescent students to meet the demands of nursing curriculum and to develop the skills of reflective practice. Educational and clinical support for young nursing students is recommended. (SK)

This study investigated hypothesized relationships among identity process, content, and structure with youth in the United States, Finland, and the Czech Republic. Findings indicated that youth who used an informational identity processing style had well-structured identities rooted in personal self-elements. Youth using a normative processing…

Examined the concept of ethnic identity through the experience of Canada's satellite children (children of ethnically Chinese immigrants to North America who have returned to their country of origin after immigration). Interviews with 68 adolescent satellite children highlighted multiple ways of ethnic negotiation, ranging from an essentialist…

This article offers a medical and psychosocial perspective of adolescent sexual development. Sub-types of sexual development are discussed as well as treatment implications for allied health providers. (Contains 38 references.) (Author)

Examined sexuality of 18-year-old adolescents (n=916) within context of life-course developmental model. Found adolescents who began dating early and developed steady relations early were more likely to be sexually experienced, to have had sexual relations with more partners, to have been more sexually active during late teenage years, and to have…

A review of the literature was conducted on two aspects of adolescent egocentrism: the imaginary audience and the personal fable. Results of the review yielded contradictory findings in most areas of the research. Reasons for these contradictions are explored, and suggestions for future research are presented. (Author)

Based on semistructured interviews with five adolescent females, all recent immigrants from Latin America, discusses active role immigrant adolescents can take in balancing the influences of old and new cultures in formation of healthy bicultural identity, and special problems females face in adapting to new sex role culture. (Author/NB)

Explains how previewing may be applied to help adolescents adjust to developmental vicissitudes. Notes that previewing is innovative strategy derived from early life caregiver-infant interaction that encourages adolescent to represent and predict interpersonal outcomes of her behaviors. Discusses application of previewing to case involving…

Places concept of developmental tasks within cultural context, discussing role of "cultural-developmental" tasks in development and modification of adolescent's social-cognitive functioning and the respective roles of both individual and contextual-environmental factors in production of competencies. Outlines theory including individual's activity…

Individuals low in interpersonal trust have been found to be less confident, less popular with others, and more lonely--indicating need for attitudinal and behavioral change. Student who has sufficient discomfort to seek therapeutic assistance can be aided in increasing trust in others through specific tasks cooperatively established by the…