This document examines the supports communities provide to adolescents and the contributions adolescents in turn make to communities. In the first section of the document, the capacities adolescents need to function in adult roles are discussed and the supports for developing these capacities available from public policy are described. The…

Art education research is examined to indicate the importance of having an adequate research base to make informed educational decisions. To examine the ways in which research proceeds from sociopolitical assumptions and, in turn, shapes perceptions of the field and guides actions, the following are discussed: (1) art education research trends;…

This brief essay, presented in parallel English and French versions, highlights the process by which day care practice and day care research have begun to overlap. First, the development of day care research in North America is presented in a "generational" model. It is argued that a shift has occurred from general child care…

Topics addressed in this report were suggested at a meeting of staff from the National Center for Health Services Research and Health Care Technology Assessment (NCHSR) and other Public Health Service representatives held in 1988 to update the Public Health Service's plan for the prevention and control of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).…

This paper briefly outlines current problems associated with chronic diseases in children and youth and provides indications for the types of future research and analysis needed to facilitate the development of solutions. In general, these problems are associated with the following: malignancies, hereditary anemias, cystic fibrosis, other chronic…

In the area of industrial/organizational (I/O) psychology and physiological psychology, issues of gender have only begun to be addressed. An examination of the recent literatures in I/O and physiological psychology was undertaken to document the extent to which women are used as research subjects, to determine whether or not research relevant to…

This article reviews counseling analogue research methods used in the Journal of Counseling Psychology. Emerging analogue research models are identified and related methodological issues and boundary condition characteristics are discussed. Analogue methodological features in need of further consideration are noted. (Author)

This volume presents a collection of papers and research reports by young black psychologists. These papers were presented at the Third Conference on Empirical Research in Black Psychology, whose purpose was to promote a research orientation in the field of black psychology. The papers deal with issues such as the following: race and social…

The priority recommendations selected from the 1974 annual report of the National Advisory Committee on the Handicapped are briefly discussed. (Author)

The status of the literature pertaining to Chicano politics is discussed. The articles contained in this issue of "AZTLAN" are briefly reviewed. (NQ)

Paper presented at the Merrill-Palmer Institute on Research and Training of Infant Development (Detroit, Mich., Feb. 15-17, 1968).

Recent research indicates that low income adults and infants in the United States are more likely to be overweight than undernourished. Very possibly, the assumptions upon which food supplement programs are based are ill-founded. While many of the currently operating broadly conceived supplemental food programs achieve desirable collateral…

At the beginning of this paper what is known about the effects of maltreatment on children is described. From that discussion, a general impression of the nature and quality of current knowledge emerges, with a focus on theoretical and methodological implications. It is concluded that reports on the physical, social, emotional, and…

There has been little valid and reliable research of the motion picture audience. Specific reasons for the movie industry's own inattention to audience research include the early popularity of films and the fact that since the industry does not sell advertising it does not need to account for its audience size and preferences. Some researchers…