1. List three warning signs of suicide.
(There are more than three, but three will do.)
 
 
 
 
 

2. Which of the following adolescents would you be most concerned about? A boy who
a) normally has a B+ overall average but is now failing three of his classes
b) considers school a waste o ftime and likes hanging around with jobless dropouts
c) is not interested in grades and cares only about extracurricular activities
d) is emotionally immature and enjoys playing the class clown

3. Among adolescents in the United States, the most frequently abused drug is:
a) alcohol
b) marijuana
c) cocaine
d) heroin

4. The textbook author states that many young people, especially in the nation's ghettos, regard the school experience as irrelevant to their personal, social and vocational needs. Do you believe this is also true of many of the reservation's young people? Give examples or facts which support your belief.
 
 
 

5. The textbook discusses adolescent pregnancy at length. The reservation clearly has a higher rate of births to young and unwed mothers than the national average. One possibility is that the rate of pregnancy is the same but the rate of abortion is lower, so there are more births. How much of the information presented in the textbook is, in your opinion, representative of the reservation? For example, are most pregnancies unplanned? do a large proportion end in abortion? is the fact that there are few economic opportunities a factor in young girls lack of concern regarding birth control?