Offers advice on how to develop good interpersonal skills and good relationships with others. (SR)

Describes how the discipline and sacrifice involved in playing competitive basketball can promote a continuing, self-rewarding challenge and test for the players and others involved. (JD)

Considers the small but important motif of female characters (in young adult books) seeking their appropriate names. Discusses how this step expresses the search to define authenticity in their own terms, an important step toward developing inner voice and self-esteem that adolescent girls can take. Offers examples from several young adult books…

Whereas some self-assessment activities are based on a limiting view of the self, other self-assessment activities may be useful in helping students develop. (HOD)

Describes the evolution of adolescence as a developmental stage and several psychological approaches to adolescent development. The discussion covers the need for adolescent literature to address physical, social, and emotional issues, and the need for librarians and teachers to be aware of the available literature. (29 references) (CLB)

Suggests that the twin roles of self-exploration through writing and the development of public discourse may be viewed in terms of three stages of the composing process. (DD)

Recounts the personal experiences of a 15-year old boy, who is scared to discover that he will be placed in a group home. Reveals that moving into the home placed him in a supportive community that helped foster his resilience and helped him take control of his life. (Author/GCP)

Discusses how certain novels can be used to create hope in student readers and help them to see that life is worth living. (CRH)

Vocational education must be accessible to all students because it has inherent value to a large spectrum of students in secondary schools, not just to those who are majoring in a vocational area. It is a natural setting for the integration of mathematics, science, social studies, economics, communications, and environmental studies; it is also a…

According to national statistics on death rates, criminal behavior, and other indicators, the well-being of White adolescents has declined markedly between 1960 and 1980, despite certain improvements in families, schools, and youth programs. American culture seems geared to a selfish individualism inconsistent with maintaining strong families and…

Outlines the goals of a secondary social studies course for six categories: basic skills; citizenship; leisure time and stimulation; work, careers, or employment; knowledge and creativity; and understanding self and working with others. (RM)

A secondary school curriculum which includes a significant focus on individual developmental goals is proposed. Emphasis is placed on students' intellectual development, self-management, and interpersonal and small group involvement. The basic content of the developmental curriculum is summarized to include acquisition of the knowledge to: (1)…

This issue on suggestive learning contains the following articles: (1) "A Time of Growth," by Kay U. Herr; (2) "Sophrology and Suggestology/Suggestopedia: The Same System with a Different Name?" by W. Jane Bancroft; (3) SALT-Quo Vades or Caveat Emptor," by O. L. Caskey; (4) "A Comparison of Suggestopaedia and…

Looks at some of the social, psychological and emotional experiences of youths which make them vulnerable to recruitment into cults like the Unification Church. Stages of adolescent normative development which predominate are identity struggle, idealism, curiosity, and disillusionment. (JAC)

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)