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Marriages in which incest has taken place can benefit from marital therapy and can even achieve renewal. Fears of intimacy and abandonment—as expressed in sexuality and marital interactions—are discussed and a model for treatment is proposed.

The general value preferences & significant others of black Coll youth are examined. Data were obtained from a sample of 162 black M & F students attending a large New England state U. Value orientations were determined by rating twelve areas of interest & activities on a five point scale. Data on significant others were derived from two open-ended questions in which Ss were requested to identify those individuals or groups whose opinions & evaluations of them as students & individuals mattered most. In addition, Ss were asked to explain how such individuals & groups had influenced them. In both normative content & choice of significant others, black Coll youth gave high priority to individual achievement values, ie, those pertaining to hard work, success, material comfort, & self-actualization. This is in contrast to the collective-activism orientation of black Coll youth previously observed by other investigators. Both the normative pressures of Coll life & the current role models to which the majority of these youths are exposed are seen to account in part for this apparent shift in value orientations. 4 Tables. AA.