Adolescence

Understanding the adolescent viewpoint on mental health counseling is important for theory development and service enhancement. The few studies that have been conducted help to illuminate the topic. In one study, a group of college males presented...

The problem of bullying in school is common throughout the world (Smith, Morita, Junger-Tas, Olweus, Catalano, & Slee, 1999). Olweus conducted the first systematic investigation of bullying in the early 1970s in Norway (Olweus, 1973), and has surveyed...

Convincing adolescents to postpone sexual activity, or to become more responsible if they become sexually active, has long been a goal of public health efforts, and for good reason. Approximately 40% of all females will experience at least one pregnancy...

In a national survey of high school seniors, 63.2% reported having been drunk and 41.7% having used marijuana (Johnston, O'Malley, & Bachman, 1996). Research has linked substance use during high school and young adulthood to lower educational attainment...

Most models of value socialization within the family are unidirectional: children are assumed to internalize the attitudes, rules, and expectations of their parents (e.g., Schonpflug, 2001). However, this unnecessarily constrains research on intergenerational...