Study investigated the relationships between dissociative experiences, anger proneness, and attachment styles in a nonclinical sample of late adolescent females. Found a connection between anger proneness and dissociation. Insecurely attached females showed more anger proneness. Results confirm the importance of psychological intervention for…

Presents an overview of the challenges to offering group counseling to early adolescents with emotional handicaps. Describes a set of methods of selecting students for group counseling and presents group leadership and goals. Outlines series of useful therapeutic activities. (Author/NB)

Defines both hyperactivity and hyperkinesis, how students suffering from those conditions behave, and the use of drug therapy for reducing such behavior in classrooms. (RK)

Compared the effectiveness of the High School Personality Questionnaire and the Jesness Inventory in predicting treatment outcomes of emotionally disturbed adolescent females (N=15). Results indicated girls who did not complete treatment were less stable, insecure, anxious, and more likely to experience interpersonal conflicts. (JAC)

Compared 12 adolescent inpatients who were an "only child" in single-parent families to control group of adolescent patients matched for gender, family income, and diagnosis. Findings support hypothesis that, in this clinical sample, single-parent/only-child families and their adolescents would display greater degree of disturbance than…

Examined development of self-consciousness and its relationship to emotional disturbance in early and late adolescence. Results indicated that self-consciousness decreased with age in nondisturbed subjects. Development of self-consciousness in temporary situations did not follow consistent patterns in disturbed subjects. Social-cognitive shifts in…

Examined deinstitutionalization and community facilities for emotionally disturbed adolescents through statewide survey of 125 licensed group-care providers and field research methods at five small residential facilities. Results suggest these facilities are a new type of social setting with no direct correlation to other types of institutions.…

Authors explore the feasibility of camping programs for incorporation into the state hospital system of Texas. (CB)

This paper attempts to describe the psychopathology of the borderline patient. Descriptive features of the syndrome in children, adults, and adolescents are given. Genetic considerations and psychic structures are discussed with their resulting treatment implications. Finally, outpatient treatment strategies are presented in detail, including…

In many disturbed and abused adolescents, acting out is the alternative to despair. The treatment task is to understand the significance of the acting out and to be able to give it a positive meaning. (Author/SJL)

The growing dissatisfaction with current methods for rating affective symptoms in child and adolescent psychiatry necessitates the development of additional reliable methods of evaluating mood disorders. Reviews the limitations of self-report and interview assessment techniques as contrasted with observationally-based rating scales. (JPS)

The purpose of this study was to identify the common denominators in the background of adolescent high school students that could account for the presence of school phobia. (Author/RK)

Focuses on various forms of group therapy for severely emotionally and behaviorally disturbed adolescents. Discusses eclectic theoretical frame of reference including elements of psychodynamic, object relations, and structural and strategic family therapy theory. Identifies precedents for confrontational-supportive approach to be encounter group…

Reviews recent English-language literature on sexual abuse of children, focusing on incest and its biological as well as psychological effects. (Author/DB)

Investigated cognitive, academic, and psychosocial variables associated with success in alternative high school for emotionally and behaviorally disturbed youth. Findings from 32 students revealed that psychosocial variables (family pathology, duration of disturbance, age of admission) were associated with success, whereas cognitive and academic…