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PubMed1979

Sociological correlates of alienation among adolescent suicide attempts.

The purpose of this research is to assess the relationship between adolescent alienation and a number of sociological factors in a sample adolescent suicide attempts from a northern metropolitan area. First, Dean's alienation scale is employed and the distribution of responses of the adolescent suicide attempts are analyzed. Second a number of sociological variables are examined by means of multiple regression procedures. In the regression analysis, eight variables were found to be statistically significant-in descending order: social contact with peers in the neighborhood, conflict with parents, broken romance, economic status of parents, communication blockage with parents, school performance, stepparents, and broken romance, These variables have been salient in previous research and theorizing about adolescent suicidal behavior. The fact that adolescence, by itself, seems to be a good predictor of whether or not a person will attempt suicide strongly suggests that there is something about the condition of adolescence which underlies this type of behavior. One possibility is that biological maturation is itself the crucial variable. Alternatively, the argument which follows concentrates on a major sociological aspect of adolescence-the adolescent's relative alienation from institutionalized social life. Alienation may be endemic to the period of adolescence.

Achievement↗
PubMed1977

Adolescent Rorschach responses as a function of age at first institutionalization.

To test the hypothesis that age of first separation from a home environment is a factor in the emotional health of institutionalized boys, Rorschach protocols of 82 residents of Saint Francis Vocational School, a facility for deprived nondelinquent nonretarded youth aged 10 to 18, were examined. Seven Rorschach variables were used as dependent variables of emotional status. It was found that boys who had first been institutionized before age 10 gave more color-dominant and pure color responses (p less than .005), and more responses with pathological overtones (p less than .005), than did youth first placed at ages 10 to 13 or ages 14 to 17. Fixation was proposed as the basis for the group differences.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1976

Optimizing test performance of moderately and severely mentally retarded adolescents and adults.

This study provided further evidence for the validity of a learning potential assessment procedure with institutionalized moderately and severely retarded adolescents and adults. Significant positive correlations were obtained between psychometric and learning scores, attendants' and teachers' ratings of ability, and the posttraining scores on the modified Kohs Extended Learning Potential procedure. In addition, performance on this test-train-test procedure was compared with a train-within-test format for two different tasks: training embedded within the administration of the Leiter International Performance Scale and a formboard version of Raven's Coloured Progressive Matrices. The students responded equally to the two formats. Stanford-Binet IQs were least predictive of performance on the three learning potential measures and were unrelated to teachers' and attendants' ratings of ability. The implications of these data were discussed with particular attention to the potential advantages of the train-within-test model.

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PubMed1994

[New decision making therapy in foster, adoptive and institutionalized children with failed outcome].

A specific group of children, adolescents and young adults with failure syndromes and courses of failure is described and a report is made on the new decision-making therapy, which has been modified for young patients. This is described from its transaction-analytical background as well as in its practical implementation in the in-patient department of a clinic for child and adolescent psychiatry. Here it is not a matter of a single method of therapy but of a therapy direction. The objective of this is to help the young person to review its earlier decisions that were made in connection with relationships in the sense of one's own prohibition of admission, these being the main cause for failure, and to code to a new decision of wanting to have successful relationships in the future. In its implementation different psychotherapeutical processes are applied according to the individual process situation. The new decision-making therapy can be considered to be completed when the typical failure syndrome symptoms have disappeared and the young person begins to open itself towards development-promoting help and to enter into relationships.

Adaptation, Psychological↗
PubMed1980

The effect of music ear training upon the auditory discrimination abilities of trainable mentally retarded adolescents.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of music ear training upon the auditory discrimination abilities of 30 institutionalized trainable mentally retarded (TMR) adolescents. Subjects were 15 TMRs enrolled in choir and 15 TMRs who were not choir members. The hypothesis was that music ear training incorporated in choir rehearsals would enhance auditory discrimination abilities, as measured by the Goldman-Fristoe-Woodcock Test of Auditory Discrimination. An analysis of variance revealed significantly more errors in auditory discrimination by the TMR adolescents not enrolled in choir. Results of t tests comparing the scores of TMR choir members to Goldman-Fristoe-Woodcock test norms for the same chronological age revealed significantly more errors by the choir members. However, t tests comparing the performance of TMR choir members and Goldman-Fristoe-Woodcock test norms for normal subjects of the same mental age revealed significantly more errors by normal subjects.

Adolescent↗
PubMed2006

The moral judgment of juvenile delinquents: a meta-analysis.

A meta-analysis of 50 studies was conducted to investigate whether juvenile delinquents use lower levels of moral judgment than their nondelinquent age-mates and, if so, what factors may influence or moderate the developmental delay. The results show a lower stage of moral judgment for juvenile delinquents (d=.76). Effect sizes were large for comparisons involving male offenders, late adolescents, delinquents with low intelligence, and incarcerated delinquents. The largest effect sizes were found for period of incarceration and comparisons involving juvenile delinquents with psychopathic disorder. Production instead of recognition measures, dilemma-free assessment methods, and non-blind scoring procedures yielded relatively large effect sizes, whereas effect sizes were medium for comparisons involving delinquents with average intelligence, non-incarcerated delinquents, female offenders, as well as early and middle adolescents. Psychopathic disorder and institutionalization were identified as unique moderators of the link between moral judgment and juvenile delinquency. It is concluded that developmentally delayed moral judgment is strongly associated with juvenile delinquency, even after controlling for socioeconomic status, gender, age and intelligence.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1994

Time estimation and juvenile delinquency.

Certain empirical evidence suggests that subjects prone to delinquent activity may have faster internal clocks than others. To investigate the relationship between antisocial behavior and time perception and its dependence on the experimental time interval and method and on whether the subject is institutionalized we obtained verbal and production estimates of 5-, 15-, 30-, and 60-sec. intervals from 249 adolescents (156 school attenders and 93 institutionalized subjects) classified into 3 groups according to the intensity of their antisocial activity. Results provide no support for the hypothesis that overestimation of short time intervals is associated with either juvenile delinquency or institutionalization.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1977

Characteristics of drug abusers in an adolescent in-patient psychiatric facility.

Characteristics related to the abuse of drugs in 143 adolescents who had been institutionalized in an inpatient psychiatric facility were investigated. A factor analysis generated the following clusters: (1) multiple drug usage, (2) male narcotics procurement, (3) drug history, (4) prognostic index, (5) family drug usage, (6) entrepreneurial procurement of drugs, and (7) social procurement of drugs. Results also indicated that our patients are coming to us at increasingly younger ages and that patients admitted in 1969 appear more seriously involved in drug abuse than those admitted before or after this time.

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