Young adults and parental divorce: exploring important issues.

This article discusses the potential impact of parental divorce on the lives of young adult offspring. Parental divorce may upset both social and psychological aspects of the transition to adulthood process. The family roles young adults are expected to assume could be altered by the break-up, as could opportunities for particular young adult pursuits, such as advanced education. Heightened adjustment problems also are likely to result, as divorce produces additional life changes during the highly transitional period of early adulthood. Qualitative data from an exploratory study of 39 college students, ages 18-23, illustrate many of the relevant issues. Suggestions for future research are provided.     

Bibliotherapy for children in foster care and adoption

The bibliotherapeutic technique can help children adjust to the foster care and adoption experience. Appropriate children's books are described and the application and limitations of bibliotherapy are discussed.     

A procedure for stepwise regression analysis

A procedure for stepwise regression analysis for the non-experimental case is suggested. Regarding the problem as a multiple inference one, the procedure picks out the relevant regressors and, based on a slightly new approach, estimates the structure of dependencies among the variables involved.     

Computing asymptotic p-values for EDF tests

In this paper the problem of computingp-values for the asymptotic distribution of certain goodness-of-fit test statistics based on the empirical distribution is approached via quadrature. Through examples it is shown that this approach can lead to considerable time savings over the standard practice of discretizing the underlying eigenvalue problem.     

The art of therapeutic drawing. Helping chronic trauma survivors.

1. Survivors of chronic trauma, who may have survived hundreds of episodes of battering and abuse, have no gauge of what is normal and continue to live in the same emotional climate. 2. The coping patterns that are a result of chronic trauma are below the level of awareness and prevent healthy adaptation. 3. The inclusion of expressive techniques, such as therapeutic drawing, can be used to facilitate the emotional work of chronic trauma issues.     

Factors that affect a victim's self-disclosure in father-daughter incest

Out of concern about the underreporting of father-daughter incest, the author has conducted a study in Virginia to test certain observations in the literature about the relatively small number of cases that come to light voluntarily. The findings point clearly to contributory case characteristics that can sensitize practitioners to the possibility of undisclosed incest.