Tag: HEALTH

Adolescents’ involvement in their communities and society has become a topic of intense interest in the past few years. Although…

Wider community exerts certain influence on adolescent development through social institutions, economy, media and social politics. Many contemporary societies do…

Among all social contexts school shows the greatest variability in different countries. It has been shown that the transition from…

Blos compared the uniformism of the American middle-class youth, based on the overriding shift to peers, with a much lower…

The number of studies concerned with the role of neighborhood in the adolescent development has been increasing recently. They show…

Adolescent development, which implies biological, cognitive and psychosocial changes, is related to the existing social formations and processes. Family, peer…

All police training procedures should include at least a ten-hour block of material on the phenomenon of suicide, including attention…

There are definitional problems of what is youth and what is suicide. It is also clear, that coronial under-reporting of…

I discuss below ten programs which have the potential to alleviate suicide. All require input from non-Aboriginal sources. Two may…

The easiest path to new knowledge is to listen to attractively delivered material, preferably at times and places which suit…

My professorial inaugural lecture at the University of New England in 1972 addressed comparative race politics in Australia, Canada, New…

(a) Empowering themselves What does it mean when researchers and strategy-devisers talk of the need for ‘indigenous’ communities to ‘empower…