Adolescent Sexuality and Family Life Education
Family life education is one of the core aspects of population education. It encompasses of issues on family life, sex,…
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Adolescent Engagement in Community and Society
Adolescents’ involvement in their communities and society has become a topic of intense interest in the past few years. Although…
The Effects of the Wider Community on Adolescent Development
Wider community exerts certain influence on adolescent development through social institutions, economy, media and social politics. Many contemporary societies do…
The Effects of Schools on Adolescent Development
Among all social contexts school shows the greatest variability in different countries. It has been shown that the transition from…
The Effects of Peers on Adolescent Development
Blos compared the uniformism of the American middle-class youth, based on the overriding shift to peers, with a much lower…
The Effects of Neighbourhood on Adolescent Development
The number of studies concerned with the role of neighborhood in the adolescent development has been increasing recently. They show…
The Effects of the Family on Adolescent Development
Adolescent development, which implies biological, cognitive and psychosocial changes, is related to the existing social formations and processes. Family, peer…
The Police and Aboriginal Suicide
All police training procedures should include at least a ten-hour block of material on the phenomenon of suicide, including attention…
The Coronial System and Aboriginal Suicide
There are definitional problems of what is youth and what is suicide. It is also clear, that coronial under-reporting of…
Programs to assist Aborigines to Overcome Aboriginal Suicide
I discuss below ten programs which have the potential to alleviate suicide. All require input from non-Aboriginal sources. Two may…
Organising Capacity-Based Workshops aimed at curbing Aboriginal Suicide
The easiest path to new knowledge is to listen to attractively delivered material, preferably at times and places which suit…
Adolescence Development and External Influences
Recent literature on adolescence distinguishes two separate approaches to the definition of normalcy during adolescence: psychoanalytic interpretation and empirical research….
Treatment Practices to Aboriginal Suicide
In contemporary suicidology concerning Amerindians, there is an expressed desire for euphemisms. Shore suggests calling prevention programs ‘evaluation’ programs, being…
The liberation of Suicide
(a) Biomedical or ethnic-centred philosophies ‘An ethnoscientific or biomedical approach alone will lead us to a lot of mistakes.’ This…
The Effect of ‘Disempowerment’ on Aboriginal Suicide
Empowerment means giving someone the authority to act. To ‘disempower’ is to remove that authorisation. However, it has come to…
Research Directions on Aboriginal Suicide
(a) Biochemical or genetic ‘predisposing’ factors The research into biochemical or genetic factors which predispose people to behave in a…
‘Prevention’ Approaches to Aboriginal Suicide
(a) The National Youth Suicide Prevention Strategy There is both activity and innovation in suicide ‘prevention’ strategies inAustralia.5 The National…
Movement Towards Alleviation from Suicide
There are always simple solutions to complex problems. And they’re always wrong. —H. L. Mencken…
Comparative Suicide Studies of The Pacific Islands to Aboriginal Suicide
Geoffrey White has a valuable metaphor in relation to suicide studies: ‘The international literature is full of studies which have…
Comparative Suicide Studies of South Africa to Aboriginal Suicide
Much of my professional life has been devoted to comparative studies: in race politics and, later, in genocide studies. Comparison…
Comparative Suicide Studies of Canada and the United States to Aboriginal Suicide
The literature on suicide among Native American and Canadian Indian, Alaskan Native and Canadian Inuit has grown remarkably in the…
Comparative Suicide Studies of New Zealand to Aboriginal Suicide
My professorial inaugural lecture at the University of New England in 1972 addressed comparative race politics in Australia, Canada, New…
Aboriginal Initiatives to Combating Suicide
(a) Empowering themselves What does it mean when researchers and strategy-devisers talk of the need for ‘indigenous’ communities to ‘empower…
Understanding Specific Aboriginal Suicide Factors
At least eight factors operate within the politics and sociology of Aboriginal communities, adding to actual or attempted suicidal or…