Discusses the impact of media on youth and suggests some possible directions for the Catholic media, especially in the areas of textbooks, magazines, television, movies, and radio, in responding to the needs of youth. (Author/FM)

Canoeing and other outdoor experiences can be effectively combined with therapy techniques to aid troubled youth, as this coed vocational program for teenagers illustrates. (LH)

Data from a nationally representative sample of shelters for runaway and homeless youths (n=160) were analyzed to determine shelter capacity, occupancy, and occupancy ratios. Analysis focused in particular on occupancy ratios by funding status, shelter size, metropolitan statistical area, season, and day of the week. Results showed a relatively…

Compared three models to predict recidivism in juvenile offenders. Discriminant analyses performed on data from 91 juvenile parolees (42 nonrecidivists, 49 recidivists) revealed that Orange County Risk Assessment Instrument and Arizona Juvenile Risk Assessment Form were able to predict recidivism 18-22 percent better than chance. Contra Costa Risk…

Contends that adolescent substance abuse and measures of self-esteem are highly negatively correlated. Research of literature provides inferential conclusion that young child whose self-esteem is not sufficiently nourished will group into adolescent having greater propensity for substance abuse. Discusses construct of self-esteem and examines…

Reviews four types of adolescent problems likely to be associated with Satanism. Promotes evaluation from a perspective which assumes that different personalities are drawn to Satanism for different reasons, so that counselors will not presume that these adolescents require a single treatment approach. (LLL)

Describes Urban Home program, a short but successful program for troubled youths, which, although successful in treatment goals, was, a result of administrative changes and bureaucratic needs, so restructured it became something totally different and unrecognizable. Concludes this example of change for its own sake, of constant redeployment of…

Examines youth services center in People's Republic of China. Notes that, because this type of program must earn its own living in communist state, it offers services that can survive market test rather than those that focus on social welfare goals. Describes program as concerned with preferences of socialist youths rather than with needs of…

Presents interview with David Jarmusz, a Chicago (Illinois) police officer who specializes in gang activity. Jarmusz describes the Chicago Police Department's gang units program and gang specialist detectives, discusses goals and objectives, activities of the program, and outcomes of the project. (NB)

Describes chemical model for patterns of aggressive behavior. Addresses cultural, neurobiological, and cognitive factors that affect violent children. Identifies five patterns of aggression (overaroused, impulsive, affective, predatory, and instrumental) and examines these dimensions of aggression for each pattern: baseline, precipitators,…

Describes the four steps used by Bethesda Family Service Foundation to help troubled youth break out from the hurt-hate-harm cycle. Healing involves the following steps: (1) Admission and Grieving; (2) Confrontation and Disclosure; (3) Forgiveness and Reconciliation; and (4) Restoration and Healing. Improvement in emotional response can lead to…

Study explores the relationship between adolescent parenting and firearm injuries among 258 incarcerated male adolescents. The results indicate that 20% of the juvenile offenders fathered at least one child. Analyses revealed a significant relationship between firearm injuries and increased prevalence of adolescent parenting. Discusses social and…

Investigated Israeli youths' reactions to the assassination of their Prime Minister, analyzing graffiti on the walls of Tel Aviv's city hall immediately and 10 months after the event. Overall, graffiti represented spontaneous, authentic feelings of loss and "spontaneous memorialization." Many youth were addressing the social, political,…

Examines the evolution of a parenting class that combines concepts and interventions associated with solution focused and strategic family therapy. The class is targeted for all types of families and parenting situations. Parents reported that the class was very helpful and gave them access to information that had not received from other parenting…

This first person account opens a window onto the inner world of a troubled youth. This narrative describes a young boy's personal account of being dropped off at a facility for troubled youth, in hopes that his behavior will change.