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Product Description: Issues of sexual abuse, family resistance, suicidal gestures, self-concept development, social skills training, eating disorders, and other problems occuring in adolescence are perennial concerns of professionals working with troubled young people...read more

A Franciscan priest recounts the history of his mission and the founding of the Covenant Houses and, in graphic detail, reveals the lives of the desperate street kids who, without his help, might have been lost forever

Product Description: How do child support programmes and policies vary across the world? What can we learn from the experiences of different countries? This comprehensive, comparative study looks at social and legal provisions for children of one-parent families in the UK, Scandinavia, Austria, Israel, the Netherlands and the US...read more

Product Description: In classrooms and in living rooms, in research institutions and on Capitol Hill, teenage pregnancy is one of the most controversial public issues of our day. Yet after all the investigation and government effort, what is really known about the problem of adolescent pregnancy and how to deal with it? And what is the role of the social scientist and historian in a public issue of this kind? In this study, Maris Vinovskis--a prominent demographic historian and a participant in both Carter's and Reagan's Presidential initiatives on teenage pregnancy--sets these questions within a historical framework and discusses a host of current issues and policy considerations...read more

Product Description: This is an anthology on the topic of Black Adolescents. The book contains articles and essays on Black You in Predominantly White Suburbs; Health care issues of Black Adolescents, Role Models and the Social Construction of Identity for Black Youth; educating Black Adolescents and much much more...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Book by Ginzberg, Eli, Berliner, Howard S., Ostow, Miriam

A Franciscan priest recounts the history of his mission and the founding of the Covenant Houses and, in graphic detail, reveals the lives of the desperate street kids who, without his help, might have been lost forever

Product Description: Here is an invaluable resource to help professionals understand the broad range of issues and challenges that adolescents face as they grapple with their sexuality. This highly informative volume addresses the most compelling issues of adolescent sexuality...read more

Product Description: Developed as special issues of The Urban League review (v. 12, nos. 1&2), these essays present current thinking of an interdisciplinary group of professionals. Collectively, they chart an agenda for action on the issue, establishing the basis for long-term goals and objectives at the federal, state...read more

Guides parents through the confusing maze of programs and services available for adolescent children who have serious problems

Product Description: Book by Rowley, William J.

Analyzes the complex factors that have contributed to the U.S.'s high mortality statistics for youth, and points out what steps must be taken to reverse this trend