INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ADOLESCENT MEDICINE AND HEALTH

 

SPECIAL ISSUE ON ADOLESCENTS AND THEIR PARENTS

 

Volume 15, No. 1, January - March 2003

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

EDITORIAL

      Our adolescents – our future

      Hatim A Omar ......1

REVIEW ARTICLES

      Sex education in the schools: What role does it play?

      Darby H McElderry and Hatim A Omar ...........3

      Parenting adolescents

      Sandra L D’Angelo and Hatim A Omar ............11

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

      Clinical factors in group psychotherapy for parents of adolescents with disruptive behaviour disorders

      Harvey A Armstrong, Corinne Wilks and Catherine Melville ...........21

      Evaluation of the parent group experience. What helps and what hinders

      Harvey A Armstrong ............31

      A longitudinal study of parenting and adolescent adjustment in Chinese adolescents with economic disadvantage

      Daniel TL Shek ...........39

      Parenting style of Chinese fathers in Hong Kong: Correlates with children’s school-related performance

      Vicky CW Tam and Rebecca SY Lam ...........51

      Covert parental control: Parent-adolescent interaction and adolescent development in a Chinese context

      Ching-man Lam .........63

      Educating adolescents about puberty: What are we missing?

      Hatim A Omar, Darby McElderry and Rana Zakharia ............79

CASE REPORT

      Barriers to home care and social support for an adolescent with disability

      Gideon Vardi and Joav Merrick ............85

SHORT COMMUNICATION

      The life mission theory: A theory for a consciousness based medicine

      Søren Ventegodt .......... 89

TRENDS AND MILESTONES IN ADOLESCENCE

      Trends in adolescent sexual risk behaviors

      Joav Merrick and Aharon Galil ...........93

BOOK REVIEWS .........97

CALENDAR OF EVENTS ...........102

 

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ISSN 0334-0139/15:1

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