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The Cellie Kit is an engaging, helpful, and easy-to-use coping tool for families facing pediatric cancer treatment. Future research should examine the efficacy of brief interventions using the Cellie Kit to promote adjustment to pediatric cancer.

This study examines privacy regulation in terms of mechanisms used by college students to make themselves more or less accessible to one another, dormitory room decorations, and the relationships between privacy regulation, personal displays, and short-and long-term adjustment to a university setting.Newly entering Ist-year students completed a questionnaire that assessed privacy mechanisms, satisfaction with the university, and other topics. Content analyses of photos of room decorations were also completed. Those who eventually dropped out of the university over a year later had fewer and less effective privacy mechanisms, were less satisfied with university life, and were less active in various campus events. Although dropouts tended to decorate their rooms more than "stayins," their decorations showed less diversity and less commitment to the university setting.This study examines privacy regulation in a college dormitory setting in terms of the mechanisms used by students to make themselves more or less accessible to one another, the personal displays or decorations exhibited by students, and the relationships between privacy regulation, personal displays, and short-and long-term adjustment to a university setting.The study was designed in accordance with a model of privacy regulation proposed by Altman (1975Altman ( , 1976Altman ( , 1977a. This framework defines privacy as "the selective control of access to the self" and as a dialectic process that includes both the opening and closing of the self to others. At certain times people seek contact with others, and at other times they desire to avoid social contact. Although seeking and avoiding social interaction are opposites, a dialectic perspective treats them as part of a unified social system. A related aspect of Altman's approach is that privacy regulation is hypothesized to involve a variety of behavioral mechanisms such as verbal and paraverbal behavior, nonverbal behavior, Requests for reprints should be sent to Irwin Altman,

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