Purpose: Longitudinal research in dementia has acknowledged the importance of transitions during the course of family caregiving. However, long-term adaptation to institutionalization has received little attention. This study attempts to describe caregivers' adaptation (changes in stress, well-being, and psychosocial resources) to placement up to…

The article describes counseling with chronically/terminally ill children and adolescents at the Boston Children's Hospital using a special education-oriented philosophy of support. The authors take a view which emphasizes life and focuses on ways to maintain meaning in the child's life. (SBH)

Multivariate patterns of associations among psychological distress, anticipated mortality, and perceived vulnerability to HIV among urban multiethnic samples of 120 adolescents in substance-abuse treatment and 222 young adult university students were identified. Implications of the findings for the planning and implementation of effective HIV…