This seminar, which involved 32 distributive teacher coordinators, was planned to help distributive eductors identify the disadvantaged and their problems and to provide practical solutions for their needs, both in the classroom and in the business community. During the 1-week seminar, participants were divided into five subgroups to discuss each…

This brief monograph provides an historical perspective of the development of juvenile courts which, instead of developing as intended, have become paternalistic and punitive, paralleling the impact of a criminal court. The report examines the jurisdiction of the juvenile court as an organization, its judicial and prejudicial procedures, its use…

Recent statements by social scientists and legal professionals have pointed to the need for a general research framework within which discretionary practices in the juvenile justice system can be empirically described and evaluated. The present article proposes social judgment theory as one framework suitable for addressing these issues. (Author)

An adolescent's request for an abortion raises many ethical and practical issues. The social worker must help the girl weigh the various alternatives, resolve the abortion crisis to her own satisfaction, and view the experience as one episode in her growth toward adulthood. (Author)

Presents a family therapy model for working with "no problem problem" families of first offense adolescent substance abusers. Illustrates applications of this model through a case example. Describes the model as a practical therapy approach that is present- and future-oriented and seeks to build on family strengths. (Author/ABB)

Discusses the lives and feelings of homeless youth living in the streets of America's cities. Includes a photo essay on street youth expressing their desperation and alienation in graffiti. (KH)

Describes and assesses major trends in the labor market fortunes of key teenage subgroups in the U.S. during the 1980s. The need for a national policy response to the problem of pervasive joblessness among poor youth is greater in 1986 than at the beginning of this decade. (LHW)

Compared teenage runaways to teenage nonrunaways concerning their views on parenting behaviors. Runaways emphasized typical teenage issues such as differences in values from parents and rebellion, while nonrunaways gave highest ratings to more dramatic issues such as parental abuse and drug use, as reasons for running away. (Author/ABB)

Presents intervention strategy which can be used with families of adolescents who continue breaking the law despite improvement of family functioning during therapy. Strategy emphasizes collaboration between the therapist and juvenile justice system in stopping the child's law breaking behavior in the shortest time and should be used only when…

Focusing on a behavioral analysis of nonproblematic youth, attempts to determine why some youths in high crime areas remain nondelinquent. A preliminary formulation of nondelinquency says these youth are strongly influenced in a noncriminal direction by a significant other. (Author/LHW)

Four basic social learning principles are presented along with examples of how each is utilized first to learn delinquent behavior and then in helping delinquents change. (Author/LHW)

School-based health clinics currently exist in 30 cities across the country, and more are being planned. Do the clinics offer students needed health services or undermine parental authority by offering birth control information? Discusses the benefits such clinics provide, their widespread supporters, and their opponents. (MD)

Outlines the crisis-engendering tensions and the main stages of youth identity formation through the history of Israel. Details the historical, political, and psychological origins of identity crises among Israeli youth and the coping styles they have developed. (RDN)

This overview of recent state juvenile justice reform measures and identifies issues and trends associated with state juvenile reform initiatives. The report explains some of the more punitive measures, such as new criminal court transfer authority and expanded juvenile court sentencing options. Many states have balanced these steps with enhanced…