Discusses various aspects of stress: benefits, adverse effects, how individuals respond to stress, management of stress, how normal development and family living produce stress in adolescents, and skills needed to cope with stress. (CT)

To prepare today's students for tomorrow's world, schools must expand the curriculum to include development of values, attitudes, and interpersonal skills. Being liberally educated means becoming more reflectively aware, other-centered, cooperative, stable, and self-confident. Greater psychological maturity is the goal. (MLH)

Examines the concept and history of adolescence in America, and the development and philosophy of the juvenile justice system since the 1900s. Discusses the effect of psychological understanding of adolescent development--particularly of the concepts of maturity, judgment and competence--on juvenile justice. (JPB)

This article examines the legal histories and social contexts of testimony and interrogation involving minors, developmental research on suggestibility and judgment, interactions between development and legal/sociological contexts, and the reasoning behind how minors are treated in different legal contexts. The authors argue (a) that young…

Considerations in estate planning for learning disabled children are presented from the perspective of an individual who is both a lawyer and the parent of a learning disabled child. It is suggested that an important goal for parents is to train the child to be able to deal with his/her financial situation. Early training in the habit of saving…

The cognition theories of Piaget as they apply to adults are examined in the light of new theories about the characteristics of formal reasoning abilities and their acquisition over a long life span. (JD)

Based on the author's educational experiences as a student and teacher at Jesuit high schools and developed within the framework of the cognitive development theories of Lawrence Kohlberg, describes six stages of moral development. Concludes with a description of teachers at six stages of professional development. (AYC)

The author proposes that two curricula are present in some educational programs for retarded adults: a manifest curriculum of life skills that promotes independence and personal responsibility and a hidden curriculum of infantilizing behaviors and attitudes that promotes dependence and immaturity. He discusses how to remove the latter curriculum.…

The authors use a developmental perspective to examine questions about the criminal culpability of juveniles and the juvenile death penalty. Under principles of criminal law, culpability is mitigated when the actor's decision-making capacity is diminished, when the criminal act was coerced, or when the act was out of character. The authors argue…

Through a study of D. H. Lawrence, students are able to see things about themselves, their education, and their relationship to others and to God that they had not considered in depth before. (HOD)

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)

Perspective (the ability of an educated individual to evaluate the significance of things and events in relation to other things and events) is seen as critical to undergraduate education. Perspective offers a view that should be broadening and is seen as the essence of liberal education. (MLW)

Examines four somewhat arbitrary and overlapping themes from the literature in adult and teacher development: life span development, stage development, career development, and teacher development. (HOD)

Examines the psychosocial and academic problems resulting from overplacement or premature enrollment of primary school children. The educational system compounds the problem by ignoring the differences in maturation levels among children of the same age. The possibility of speeding up maturation rates and suggestions for preventing overplacement…

The problems of intercollegiate athletics are seen as pathological. Problems discussed include: the bad behavior of fans, players and coaches; cheating; exploitation of athletes; resistance to reforms and public policy (specifically Title IX); the myth of faculty control of athletics; and the bad behavior of the sports media. (MLW)