Gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) students experience harassment, alienation, and violence in schools. Several school-based interventions have been suggested to provide a safe and effective learning environment for these students, but few have been evaluated or investigated experimentally. This review utilizes A. K. Ellis' (2001)…

Described is a unit that is an example of how a traditional subject in Canadian history, the Rebellions of 1837, can meet the social and emotional needs, as well as the intellectual needs, of students. In the unit, adolescent students are compared to "adolescent Canada" of the 1830s. (RM)

The author argues that adult society prohibits adolescents from attaining maturity and that, in response to such constraints, adolescents turn to games, rituals, and charades. This state of affairs is viewed as an implicit adult conspiracy against adolescents. (DB)

Discusses various aspects of adolescents' needs and feelings in relation to their efforts to become competent human beings. (SS)

The paper considers the nature of support and counseling needed by parents of emotionally disturbed/behavior disordered adolescents. Seven potential areas of conflict for the adolescent are identified and explained with the intention of providing parents with greater understanding of their children's lives. Crises are explained to include conflict…

Four cases of Native American children are used to illustrate the importance of considering emotional needs. Only when these needs are satisfied can the children achieve academically. A plea is made to practitioners to return to the inner dimensions of thinking and feeling. (CB)

Stresses need to create new social conditions to work out intergenerational tensions between youth and adults to provide status for the young. Paper presented at Sixth Annual Conference of American Association for Child Care in Hospitals in New York City, May, 1971. (DS)

Important management principles regarding emotional needs of the teenager with acute paraplegia during early hospitalization are discussed. Journal availability: see EC 114 125. (Author)

Describes Donald H. Eichorn's leadership, commitment, and scholarship, highlighting his role in establishing the nation's first (nongraded) middle school, in the early 1960s. He founded middle school practices and programs on learner characteristics, developmentally appropriate tasks, and advisory groups at a time when little information about…

A boy's struggle between connection and autonomy finds different expression as he grows. Most boys have a limited emotional repertoire for managing conflict, adversity, and change. Our culture supports emotional development for girls and discourages it for boys. Developing an emotional vocabulary is a first step. (MLH)

Humans move through difficult transitions best when guided by ceremony and ritual. The components of traditional rites of passage mirror exactly many of today's most promising psychological theories. Four components of rites of passage that comprise life transitions are discussed: letting go of an old identity, the wandering, the new identity, and…

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…

A discussion of the rights and needs of adolescents. (BRT)

This study hypothesizes that the psychohistorical progression of the blacks from an over-controlled childhood into adolescence should be reflected in changes in measure of their need strengths, as indicated by scores on the Edwards Personal Preferences Schedule. (Author/JM)