Narration: Structures includes chapter and sub-headings, briefly introduced by the central narrator:

1. Introduction and explanation of program

2. The Rave as a metaphor for adolescent belief, behavior, and sanctuary from adult supervision

3. Difficult feelings of isolation; "I'm not being listened to by adults"

4. The 'Perils of Puberty' and 'Teen-age Beauty'

5. Narrator asks the question: "What has been happening to you lately?"

6. Adolescent view of parents

7. Narrator asks the question: "What actions become the structures of everyday life?"

8. Narrator asks the question: "This program, while revealing, is most importantly about healing. What can we do; what did you do?"

9. Passage to Wisdom: Wounded Healing. This last 'chapter' includes testimonials of survival, of love between a mother and her 17 year-old daughter.

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