In this article, the author offers suggestions to assist in taming "The Imposter Monster." What is that? Understanding that while academic writing can often be a daunting prospect for an early career researcher there are strategies that help. Author Marie Stewart writes one of the key strategies that her helped navigate this challenging…

This comment on the Special Issue contributions regarding the attachment network addresses the clinical implications of the findings from three perspectives: (1) the need to look beyond maternal influences on child developmental outcomes; (2) to be open to every seemingly peripheral influence on the child as this may have a central impact on the…

In "It's the magic circle"! cogenerative dialogue is used to create a safe environment to address emotional conflicts in a project-based learning (PBL) science internship. Hsu is drawing on polyvagal theory (PVT) and event-oriented enquiry to show how educators can use cogens as a pedagogical tool to successfully address emotional…

Our commentary highlights the authors' conceptual and empirical contributions for understanding the incidence and dynamics of varying types of adoption breakdowns and their impact on adopted youth and their families. Important distinctions are made between legal, residential, and psychological/relational permanence for children. To date, most…

In 1864, when Americans were enduring the daily miseries of the Civil War, Emily Dickinson, perhaps with the nationwide crisis in mind, wrote "A nearness to Tremendousness--/An Agony procures." The author suggests that perhaps Dickinson's poetry may be applied to the current economic downturn, when financial comfort is fleeting and many ponder…

Discusses recent changes in patterns of adolescent prostitution based on fieldwork with more than 300 adolescent prostitutes in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota. (SS)

In September, Oxford University Press published "Not a Suicide Pact: The Constitution in a Time of National Emergency," written by Richard Posner, a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Judge Posner's book, which explores how people might strike a balance between constitutionally protected liberties and security concerns…

The search for a reliable measure of anxiety constitutes the basis for the research discussed in this report. Possible influences on responses to self-report questionnaires are discussed and "Unwitting Defensiveness" is stressed as being one of the main contaminants of anxiety measurement. The test procedure used on successful and unselected…

Discusses the lack of security in the English teaching profession and encourages college English departments to be humane in their hiring practices. (DD)

After September 11, 2001, the Bush administration initiated large-scale electronic surveillance within the United States to gather intelligence to protect citizens from terrorists. Media commentary, public reaction, and classroom practices regarding this program have tended toward either-or positions: either for presidential power and national…

This article describes sources of threats to a teacher's face along with common teacher facesaving techniques, and it suggests constructive responses to teacher facesaving. The term "face," as used here, refers to the images we project of ourselves that we want others to accept. (Author)

Argues that responsiveness is not a unitary concept but rather is pluralistic in nature and includes both intrapersonal and interpersonal factors. (PCB)

This paper comments on the incidence of adopted children exhibiting emotional disturbances and their resulting overrepresentation in special education programs. It is felt that the independence demanded of the adolescent and the lack of genetic expectancy trigger the awakening of psychological insecurities in the adopted child. (JDD)

Freedom from material insecurity brings with it new human expectations. Demands for personal fulfillment and development of human potential will increasingly be placed on schools, and change will be necessary for organizational success and individual self-actualization. The authors present ten principles for bringing about desired changes.…

Notes how preceding articles expand the repertoire of theory-relevant assessments of attachment, with a special emphasis on Ainsworth's concept of the secure base. Focuses on a number of issues raised by this collection that are particularly promising for theory development, including assessment of secure-base behavior and maternal sensitivity,…