TL;DR: In this article, the authors reported on the mental health status and professional help-seeking behavior of adolescents, predominantly representing a sample of lower SES, ethnic minority backgrounds, and found that despite evident need for help, respondents indicated low utilization of services.

TL;DR: The findings imply that knowledge about AIDS is not, by itself, an effective deterrent to unsafe sexual practice among adolescents but is part of a practical know-how about AIDS that also includes specific communication abilities.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors re-examine classification criteria associated with the Extended Objective Measure of Ego Identity Status (EOMEIS): Grotevant and Adams, 1984).

TL;DR: In this article, the role of parental influence in the career and life direction of young adults was examined through the narratives of 50 young adults regarding the significant or critical events through which their parents influenced them in their career, and five narrative types were identified and illustrated.

TL;DR: The major single predictors of continued need for secure provision after discharge from the unit were recent major offending, being a risk to others at the time of admission and being admitted from a secure setting.

TL;DR: This article explored constancy and change in the emotional and interactional components of parent-child relationships from middle adolescence to young adulthood among the 133 participants of the New York Longitudinal Study and found that moderately high mean relationship ratings at each point of measurement, moderate levels of stability and widely varying correlations among ratings that tended to decrease in magnitude over time.

TL;DR: This article investigated whether religious affiliation (the Hindu and Muslim faiths) and gender are important factors in explaining the difference in eating attitudes between Asian adolescents and Caucasians in the U.K. and found that Asian adolescents had the most characteristic pattern of eating psychopathology, including generally less healthy eating attitudes and behaviours but more favourable scores on a scale assessing body satisfaction.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors found that most grandchildren reported supportive relationships with grandparents, with older grandchildren perceiving less supportive relationships when contrasted to younger grandchildren, and paternal grandfathers were generally perceived as less supportive compared to the other three types of grandparents.

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of active participation in service learning on adolescents with disabilities are examined through a survey of special education teachers, and the effects on students' socialization, behavior, attitudes, attendance, academic skills, functional skills, and relationships with non-disabled peers are explored.

TL;DR: This paper examined adolescent mothers' adjustment to parenting, self-esteem, social support, and perceptions of baby, and found that mothers with higher selfesteem at Time 1 had better adjustment at Time 2.

TL;DR: This paper examined the joint effects of perceptions of family functioning, venturesomeness, anger, and Eysenckian psychoticism on adolescent violence and vandalism/theft in Australia.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the relationship between self-esteem and the practice of going steady among high school students and found that going steady was associated with lower selfesteem in high school sophomores.

TL;DR: Investigation of dietary restraint in children in the first year of a longitudinal paediatric project found increased body fatness and girth are associated with greater dietary restraint, however, further scrutiny of high DR individuals reveals a diversity of self-perception/body measures profiles.

TL;DR: This article examined high school students' attitude toward mandatory community service and found that females were more positive toward the proposal and generally rated supporters and opposers of a mandatory service proposal more favorably than did the males.

TL;DR: In this paper, a sample (n = 464) of school attending adolescents (age 12·3-16-years-old) were examined using self-report questionnaires (GHQ, Coopersmith, Birleson and HDHQ).

TL;DR: A sample of 11,315 Norwegian adolescents (aged 13 to 20) was surveyed for eating problems, as measured by a brief version of the Eating Attitudes Test (EAT).

TL;DR: In this article, a sample of young male street prostitutes who were actively prostituting in New Orleans during 1988 and 1989 were examined as potential correlates to HIV status, including socio-demographic characteristics, substance use patterns, HIV-related risk behaviors and AIDS knowledge.

TL;DR: It is suggested that the clinical assessment of Asian adolescent overdose should rely less heavily on the assessment of suicidal intent and instead focus on the social and psychological features of the adolescents.

TL;DR: This paper found that fruit machine gambling was associated with some form of psychoactive substance abuse, such as solvent abuse and fruit machine addiction, and that the biggest subgroup were cross-addictions involving solvent abuse (9 out of 16).

TL;DR: This article conducted two studies on adolescents' reasoning about authority and friendship relations within the context of drug usage and found that younger adolescents judged that parents have a right to regulate friendship behaviors and peers are obligated to obey the rules.

TL;DR: The authors evaluated the use of group social skills training with young adolescents in a school setting, and identified the most useful component for the development of social skills, and concluded that the individualised approach worked rather better than the standardised approach and that it was important to control for therapist effects.

TL;DR: In this article, the problems arising from the long-term treatment of sexually abusive adolescent boys in conditions of security are examined and four factors in particular are discussed at length: the number and severity of clinical and behavioural problems presented by this client group; resistance to treatment; the difficulty of generalizing behavioural change into community settings; and the problem of keeping staff motivated.

TL;DR: The reported high incidence of STD in this group of the population indicates the possible risk of infection with HIV, and the impact of education on sexual knowledge and sexual practice indicates the need for an organized education programme.

TL;DR: The authors examined how life events in adolescence are patterned according to sex and socio-economic status, using three sweeps of data from a cohort of young people when they were aged 15, 16 and 18.

TL;DR: Parental satisfaction was positively associated with improvement in the child's behaviour and with the length of treatment, and perceived efficacy of treatment and parental satisfaction with the service provided.