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Chicago area high school and followed for eight years. The major finding for the high school phase was that stability and not turmoil, was the overriding characteristic of normal adolescents. This finding contradicted the then current notion of normal development. At that time it was believed that all adolescents go through major turmoil as they move through the high school years. The four years of the post high school phase of the school substantiated this finding. Two books resulted from the adolescent phase of the study. In 1996-7 94% of the original sample were reinterviewed. They were now 48. The original finding held. All were well adjusted late middle-aged individuals. The major finding was the discovery that well-adjusted adults do not remember their adolescence accurately. The data showed that there is essentially no correlation between what the subjects as adults thought and felt about their adolescence and what they actually thought and felt when they were adolescents. This phase of the study was covered in the book "Regular Guys".
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psychological test used in many countries throughout the world. It has been translated into twenty-six languages. Because of this interest, Offer and his colleagues undertook a cross cultural study of the self-image of adolescents in ten countries. The major finding was that adolescents growing up in very different countries are, on the whole, more similar to one another than they are different. However, there were some important differences in their psychological makeup. The bank of OSIQ data generated by 30,000 adolescents, both normal and psychiatrically disturbed or delinquent, as well as all the data from the Offer
Longitudinal Study has been placed in the Daniel Offer and Marjorie Kaiz Offer Archives at the
176:(December 24, 1929 – May 13, 2013) was a psychiatrist and scholar who challenged prevailing beliefs that adolescence is inherently a time of storm and stress. His Offer Longitudinal Study was one of the first studies of typical youth over time and demonstrated that most pass through adolescence adequately happy and connected to families and others. This contribution shifted fundamentally how adolescent development was understood scientifically and provoked recognition that theory from patient populations was inadequate. He is also remembered for his scholarship on normality, the viability of memory, the Offer Self Image Questionnaire and for fostering the field of adolescent developmental studies.
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American College Health Association, 1985; the William A. Schonfeld Memorial Lecture of the American Society for Adolescent Psychiatry, 1985; the J. Rosewell Gallagher Lecture of the Society for Adolescent Medicine, 1979; the Gift of Life Award from the National Kidney Foundation of Illinois, 2003 and the inclusion in the 2014 volume of Developmental Science of Adolescence which contains the autobiographic perspectives of 56 distinguished contributors to the field of adolescence in the 20th century.
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Offer has been recognized by many medical and scientific organizations. Among the honors he has received are the John P. Hill
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In 1963 Offer realized that very little was known about the development of normal (i.e. non-patient) adolescents. He received eight years of federal grants to study the psychological development of normal adolescents. In the first phase of the study seventy three boys were selected from two suburban
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In the 1980s Offer pursued his interest in the psychological aspects of leadership by editing a book with
Charles B. Strozier. Together they organized a collection of essays, addressing the protean nature of political leadership, tracing the history of the psychological study of leadership from
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due to renal failure. In order to help fellow renal patients navigate the world of dialysis, he wrote with his wife, Marjorie Kaiz Offer and his daughter Susan Offer Szafir a guide to dealing with dialysis. The book incorporates interviews with nephrologists, nurses, social workers, dieticians,
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Offer was recognized at a
Symposium in his honor given by the Department of Psychiatry, University of Illinois Medical School, Chicago, Illinois. A Festschrift in his honor was published in the Journal of Youth and Adolescence, Part I: Vol. 36, No. 1:January 2007, and Part II, Vol. 37, No. 10,
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Offer undertook a five year study, 1969 -1974, of psychiatrically disturbed juvenile delinquents. This was an empirical study to analyze the makeup of this population and how society can best help them. The authors were in charge of an inpatient unit for this population at the
Illinois State
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The OSIQ is a psychological test developed in 1962 which uses 129 items and twelve scales to assess teenager’s adjustment in areas such as impulse control, emotional well-being, peer relationships, family relationships, coping ability and sexuality. Over the years the OSIQ became a popular
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Offer, D., Ostrov, E., Howard, K.I., and Dolan, S. 1992. The Offer Self- Image
Questionnaire for Adolescents (OSIQ): A Manual, Completely Revised Fifth Edition. Los Angeles: Western Psychological Services.
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Offer was married to Judith Baskin Offer from 1961 until her death in 1976. In 1979 he married
Marjorie Kaiz Offer. They were married until his death in 2013. He has three children and six grandchildren.
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Offer, D., and Sabshin, M. 1974. Normality: Theoretical and Clinical Concepts of Mental Health (Second Edition). New York: Basic Books, Inc. (Revised Edition)
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During the beginning of the Offer Longitudinal Study, Offer became interested in how mental health professionals defined normality. Working with
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ancient formulations in the Bible to the most recent and progressive psychoanalytic works. A second revised edition was published in 2011.
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Holinger, P.C., Offer, D., Barter, J.T. and Bell, C.C. 1994. Suicide and Homicide Among Adolescents. New York: Guilford Press.
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Offer, D. Marohn, R. C. and Ostrov, E. 1979. The Psychological World of the Juvenile Delinquent. New York: Basic Books, Inc.
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Offer, D., and Sabshin, M. (eds.). 1984. Normality and the Life Cycle: A Critical Integration. New York: Basic Books, Inc.
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Offer, D., and Sabshin, M. 1966. Normality: Theoretical and Clinical Concepts of Mental Health. New York: Basic Books, Inc.
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