James D. Orten

Runaway Children and Their Families: A Treatment Typology

RESEARCH on runaway children in America has, to date, offered limited help to practitioners who work with such young people and their families. A typology that will facilitate the organization of factual data is needed. Using a broad historical perspective, this article analyzes the development of the problem and recent dramatic increases in the number of runaways. A typology is presented that classifies runaways according to the level of alienation between child and family and the degree to which the child has internalized running as a response to stressful situations. Treatment suggestions appropriate to each category are discussed.

A Model for Assessment of Incestuous Families

Factors that characterize effective treatment of incestuous families are highlighted. The authors describe a scale for assessment of these families, designed to aid practitioners in planning and conducting treatment and communicate risk factors and treatment goals to professionals.

Women with Turner's Syndrome: helping them reach their full potential

ABSTRACT The physical and psychological effects of Turners Syndrome, a female sex chromosome abnormality, briefly are described. Principles for helping women master the special challenges posed by the disorder are discussed. The authors argue that women with TS must take control of defining their identities and potential in order to attain full status within society.

Achievement among Women with Turner's Syndrome

The authors describe the results of a survey of educational achievement, occupational status, and personal happiness among adult women with Turners syndrome, a sex-linked chromosomal abnormality. The results suggest that such women compare favorably in these areas with genetically normal populations. The authors conclude that the “cognitive deficits” reported in the literature are either overcome by the subjects or perhaps are exaggerated by researchers.

Organizing Concepts in Family Therapy.

Abstract Harry Stack Sullivan (1953, p. 11) spoke fondly of the time when therapy would become “easy.” By that he meant he looked forward to the day practitioners would know precisely what to do to help their clients regardless of the symptoms they presented. He was wise enough to know, of course, that the time he anticipated would not arrive soon, for he said he would be a long-forgotten myth before it came. Those who practice in the third decade after Sullivans demise know that we are probably no closer to the halcyon conditions he longed for than he and his associates were in the 1940s. In fact, psychotherapy is under stronger attack for lack of precision (effectiveness) now than at any time in the recent past.