Describes three ways that recommended books for young adults have failed female readers. Introduces two books in which female heroes transcend the common and illustrate the ability and vulnerability of heroes regardless of sex. (MG)

Notes that sudden loss of child, especially by suicide, can be lifelong sentence of suffering for bereaved parents. Sees reaching out for help as often inconceivable and impossible task for parent survivors because of complex grief process. Explores what role helpers can play, who can fill helper position, and what criteria helpers must meet to be…

Delinquency intervention and research have undergone changes in recent years. One new line of research has been aimed at mapping out juvenile criminal careers. Findings from this research suggest that involvement in technically delinquent activity may be a transitory, developmental phenomenon related to adolescence. Youth appear to be increasingly…

Examines the early maturity of children in single-parent households: its evolution, its forms, and some of its short- and long-term effects. (Author/CM)

Focuses on the contribution that values clarification can make to adolescent religious education. Summarizes the tenets of humanistic psychology that provided the matrix for values clarification and describes the substance of values clarification as expressed in its terminology, theory, process and strategies. (JAC)

Claims that too many authors of young adult fiction do not use females in the main character roles. Provides examples of novels which are written by women and focus on a girl's coming of age, without falling back on stereotypes. (MG)

A model of social skills in childhood and adolescence using the concepts and literature on symbolic interactionism is proposed. Its components (role-taking, role-making, definition of situation, and self) and their potential contributions to social skills analysis are discussed. An application to friendship making and possible model limitations…

Some of the parallels in development between young children and young adolescents are explored, and ways in which approaches used in early childhood education can be applied to programs for young adolescents are suggested. In a comparison of the characteristics of the child and the adolescent, similarities are found in physical, intellectual,…