The Mill City/Gates Youth Development Project operated as a youth-at-risk program in a timber-dependent community during the timber crisis of the early 1990s. Evaluations indicate the youth activities were effective. Community support structures created by the project continue to operate 5 years after the end of funding, indicating a successful…

Reviews the feasibility and validity of the various methods that have been used to measure puberty and summarizes the evidence-base as to whether the age at menarche and the age at onset of puberty has decreased in recent years. Provides a summary of the findings of relevance to those critically reviewing the current evidence surrounding age of…

Study sought to gain insight into what forum girls use to learn about the adolescent experience, and to examine views of their sexuality and femininity. Interviews were conducted with groups of girls ages 13-16 years, from diverse backgrounds. Discussions revealed a displacement of female sexuality. Responsible adults should challenge distorted…

Describes the psychological and emotional effect of the death of a parent on young children and adolescents and how teachers can help students through the grieving process. (PKP)

Examines the results of a comprehensive, multifaceted longitudinal school-based prevention program, which focuses on enhancing protective factors with the goal of promoting positive youth development, reducing identified risk factors, and preventing adolescent problem behaviors. Results reveal that Raising Healthy Children participants had…

Investigated relationship between ego identity development and suicidal inclinations at adolescence. Results from suicidal (N=10) and normative (N=30) adolescents revealed that most of the ego identity factors examined differentiated between the two groups. Findings support hypothesis that ego identity formation at adolescence may serve as…

Investigated relationship between identity status and structural dimensions of individuals' self-theories or personal construct systems in college students (n=118), classified by identity status. Findings indicated Moratoriums and Diffusions had the highest self-construct differentiation. (Author/ABL)

Investigated relationship between early sexual maturation and psychosexual behaviors of dating and sexual intercourse among national sample of adolescent girls. Found early-maturing girls more likely to have experienced earlier dating and coital onset than late-maturing peers. Blacks experienced menarche and first intercourse at earlier ages, yet…

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…

Explains William Stern's influence on the institutionalization of research on adolescence in the context of the history of educational psychology. Interprets Stern's writings on adolescence and analyzes the development of research on adolescence at the Institute for Psychology at the University of Hamburg (West Germany). (Author/LS)

Explores some of the difficulties children of alcoholics experience in separating from their homes. Describes relationship fantasies used by adolescents to work through unresolved feelings about their families. Discusses the nature of these fantasy types: nurturance, self-sufficiency, incompetence, perfectionist, revenge, and…

Two case studies of adolescent girls provide material on adolescent development in the nuclear age. Both cases showed initial concern about nuclear war in earlier adolescents, but subsequent development proceeded in opposite directions. One case demonstrates privatization and turning away from global issues, second demonstrates widening interests…

Three studies involving eighth through twelfth graders examined the role of relativistic thinking in the cognitive, social, and emotional lives of adolescents. Findings indicate that adolescents appreciate the relativistic character of the knowing process and that there is a close relationship between epistemic attitude and identity status. (SH)

Encourages African-American male academies to promote the positive academic and holistic development of what is referred to as an endangered segment of society--the young African-American male. Asserts there is a need for African-American male academies and lists 10 depressing statistics about the young African-American man that support this…

Proposes that difficulties in the formation of cohesive gender identity are related to the adolescent's motivation to attempt suicide. Uses Fast's (1984) distinction between "event-centered" and "self-centered" experiences to explore problems in formation of gender identity with reference to regression to earlier stages of…