Research and treatment for aggression with adolescent girls /

Although Cummings and Leschied (both Univ. of Western Ontario) have produced a book of essays (many by the editors) on an important and timely topic, the scholarship is short of that required for work in an area of this importance. For example, the first essay decries the underrepresentation of females in the research literature on aggression yet goes on to acknowledge that the prevalence rate of aggression for boys is anywhere from three to 12 times that for girls. The second essay describes a study in which one of the measures is a derivative of an earlier, longer assessment tool; the authors give no reliability or validity information for the secondary measure and admit that the psychometric data given for the original measure is based on few published studies. Such shortcomings abound. However, the bibliographies accompanying each essay are excellent, and the book is valuable for this reason, if for no other. The editors and the rest of the contributors are clearly in command of the literature. This topic deserves an excellent treatment, but, unhappily, this is not it. ^BSumming Up: Optional. Graduate and research collections. J. P. McKinney emeritus, Michigan State University