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Walker, Kay – Journal of Navajo Education, 1996
Maslow's theory of a hierarchy of needs is used to analyze Navajo youths' struggles for identity, fulfillment, and self-esteem. Answers to the challenges of substance abuse, violence, and gang membership are offered based upon George Bearden's eight-step plan, which stresses the importance of understanding human needs to perceive and transform…
Descriptors: Counseling Techniques, Elementary Secondary Education, High Risk Students, Juvenile Gangs
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Kidd, Scott T.; Meyer, Cheryl L. – Journal of Rural Community Psychology, 2002
A study examined characteristics common among young offenders from rural communities who were involved in multiple-fatality school shootings. Data on six cases involving eight offenders revealed six common offender characteristics: verbal threats, peer rejection, interest in violent media, previous violent behavior, suicidal ideation, and violent…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Case Studies, High Schools, Homicide
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Garrison, Carol Z.; And Others – American Journal of Public Health, 1993
Analyzes the frequency and correlates of suicidal behaviors among 1,093 male and 1,250 female white and 609 male and 812 female African-American South Carolina public high school students. Suicidal behaviors are not infrequent among adolescents (75% reported no suicidal behaviors); they often coexist with other high-risk behaviors. (SLD)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Aggression, Behavior Disorders, Black Students
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Isaacs, Madelyn L; Stone, Carolyn – Professional School Counseling, 1999
Counselors who work with children regularly face the ethical dilemma of confidentiality for which there are few definitive answers. Confidentiality and Minors Questionnaire about managing student's confidential information was distributed to district guidance supervisors. It appears that counselors' judgment of what breaches confidentiality is…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Civil Liberties, Confidentiality, Counselor Client Relationship
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McCarthy, Martha M.; Webb, L. Dean – NASSP Bulletin, 2000
School administrators are challenged to maintain the delicate balance between protecting individuals' rights and ensuring the general welfare by maintaining a safe, secure learning environment. Legal principles and precedents governing restrictions on student appearance, privacy and procedural rights, harassment and hate crimes, and suicide are…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Civil Liberties, Court Litigation, Due Process
Pack, Robert P.; Browne, Dorothy; Wallander, Jan L. – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 1998
Health risk behaviors (substance use, violence, suicide, and car safety) of 194 African American urban adolescents with mild mental retardation were measured using either a confidential individual interview or an anonymous group survey. The survey methodology resulted in disclosure of more risk behaviors than the interview methodology. Elevated…
Descriptors: Adolescents, At Risk Persons, Behavior Patterns, Black Youth
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Gjerde, Per F.; Westenberg, P. Michiel – Journal of Research on Adolescence, 1998
Evaluated the longitudinal implications of age-18 dysphoric mood in 23-year olds using a multidata, multi informant design. Findings indicated that adolescent dysphoric mood was an important predictor of psychological distress in young adults, especially in young adult women, for whom the prospective correlations of adolescent dysphoria were more…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Anxiety, Depression (Psychology)
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Muehrer, Peter – Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 1995
Research on the hypothesized relationship between sexual orientation and suicide is limited. National or statewide data on frequency and causes of completed suicide in gay and lesbian people do not exist. Methodological limitations in research literature include lack of consensus on definition of key terms, nonrepresentative samples, and lack of…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Death, Definitions, Depression (Psychology)
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Lester, David; Whipple, Melissa – Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 1996
In a sample of students (n=93), preference for country and western music was not associated with depression or suicidal preoccupation as has been suggested by Stack and Gundlach. However, preference for heavy metal music was associated with prior suicidal ideation. Stronger associations were found between music preferences and measures of…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, At Risk Persons, Behavior Disorders, Counseling
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Rosen, Julia – Voice of Youth Advocates, 1998
Presents the viewpoints of a tenth grader on novels for young adults that portray troubled teens dealing with alcoholism, drugs, depression, suicide, sexual abuse, and violence. Suggests that contrary to adult opinions that these novels are not always age-appropriate, they in fact broaden teens' outlooks and prepare them for the real world. (LRW)
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Behavior, Adolescent Literature, Adolescents
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Scherff, Andrew R.; Eckert, Tanya L.; Miller, David N. – Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 2005
From a random sample of members of the 2000-2001 membership directory of the American Association of School Administrators (AASA), public school administrators' acceptability ratings of three school-based programs for the prevention of adolescent suicide were examined. A total of 210 (46%) respondents examined a description of a suicide prevention…
Descriptors: Superintendents, Screening Tests, School Psychologists, Public Schools
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Yoder, Kevin A.; Hoyt, Dan R. – Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 2005
This study used a sample of 501 families from the Mississippi Delta region to examine the feasibility of the Family Stress Model for understanding adolescent suicidal ideation. The results indicated that family economic pressure was related to parental depressive symptoms, which, in turn, was related to parental hostile behavior and physical…
Descriptors: Depression (Psychology), Suicide, Adolescents, Anxiety
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Burrows, Stephanie; Laflamme, Lucie – Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 2005
In this study the importance of living area circumstances for suicide mortality was explored. Suicide mortality was assessed across race and sex groups in a South African city and the influence of area-based compositional and sociophysical characteristics on suicide risk was considered. Suicide mortality rates are highest among Whites, in…
Descriptors: Suicide, Mortality Rate, Death, Ecology
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Fergusson, David M.; Horwood, L. John; Ridder, Elizabeth M. – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2005
Background: There has been ongoing interest in the role of intelligence in longer-term educational and occupational achievement and social adjustment. The aims of this study were to examine the extent to which IQ in middle childhood (8-9 years) was prognostic of future outcomes when due allowance was made for confounding personal and social…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Crime, Income, Family Characteristics
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Ruskin, R.; Sakinofsky, I.; Bagby, R. M.; Dickens, S.; Sousa, G. – Academic Psychiatry, 2004
Objective: The authors investigated the impact of patient suicides on trainees and psychiatrists and their utilization of supports. Methods: Graduates in practice and trainees of the residency program of the University of Toronto from 1980-1995 (N = 495) were surveyed, retrospectively, with 239/495 responding (48%). Demographic and educational…
Descriptors: Social Integration, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Suicide, Peer Groups
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