scholarly journals Changes in prevalence of violence and risk factors for violence and HIV among children and young people in Kenya: a comparison of the 2010 and 2019 Kenya Violence Against Children and Youth Surveys

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francis B Annor ◽  
Laura F Chiang ◽  
Patricia R Oluoch ◽  
Vivienne Mang'oli ◽  
Marygorret Mogaka ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Young People ◽  
Children And Youth ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Violence Against Children

scholarly journals MAINTAINING CHILDREN'S MENTAL HEALTH IN THE RISKS OF THE 21st CENTURY

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 84-86
Author(s):  
Sergii Boltivets
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Young People ◽  
Social World ◽  
Young Person ◽  
Children And Youth ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Living Things ◽  
The Social ◽  
Mental Abilities

Among the threats and dangers of the future, our duty to the younger and future generations is to develop the instincts, feelings and self-preservation of children and young people, who by their very birth suffer from inventions, conflicts and crises inherited by all previous older generations. The dominants of future self-preservation are in the mental development of children and youth, the main of which we consider mental abilities, development of feelings and especially - a sense of empathy for all living things, as well as - the imagination of every child and young person. her own life and the lives of others. Our common methodology should be to understand that the social world is not simplified, but complicated, and we have a duty to prepare our children and young people to solve these complications.

scholarly journals ‘Positive recognition’ as a preventive approach in child and youth welfare services

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jouni Häkli ◽  
Riikka Korkiamäki ◽  
Kirsi Pauliina Kallio
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Theoretical Background ◽  
Children And Youth ◽  
Professional Practices ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Welfare Services ◽  
Institutional Settings ◽  
Social Pedagogy ◽  
Child And Youth Welfare ◽  
Response Alternatives

The public welfare services provided to children and young people in Finland have proved insufficient and costly. Some concerns have also been voiced about the ways in which measures intended as supportive end up labelling their recipients as ‘problem youth’. In response, alternatives to the dominant ‘early intervention’ paradigm have been developed, with emphasis on preventive support for children and youth in general. In line with these policies, this article introduces the idea of ‘positive recognition’, developed in our recent study. Drawing from recognition theories, and in collaboration with professionals working with children and youth, we have developed a theoretically informed practical approach to fostering children and young people’s wellbeing at large, as part of everyday professional practices in institutional and non-institutional settings, and explored its potential in the prevention of social problems and marginalisation among children and youth. The paper provides a brief overview of the theoretical background of positive recognition in the context of social pedagogy, introduces how the approach can be implemented in professional practices with children and young people, and discusses the potentials of these alternative welfare practices to social pedagogy in Finland and beyond.

scholarly journals The Conditions for Successful Socialization of Children and Youth

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (6) ◽  
pp. 215-218
Author(s):  
Shujuan Jia
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Children And Youth ◽  
Close Attention ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Critical Part ◽  
The World

The successful socialization of today’s children and youth is a concern for the whole society, as well as many families. Correct and scientific circumstances must guide it. Teachers play a critical part in children’s and youth’s effective socialization. Teachers must give close attention to children and young people in the process of instilling accurate values, perspectives on life, and the world, as well as assisting them in effectively socializing them.  

scholarly journals Pranking in children's helpline calls

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann Weatherall ◽  
S Danby ◽  
K Osvaldsson ◽  
J Cromdal ◽  
M Emmison
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Children And Youth ◽  
Documentary Evidence ◽  
Institutional Interaction ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Counselling Services

© 2016 The Australian Linguistics Society. Pranking can be understood as challenging a normative social order. One environment where pranking occurs is in institutional interaction. The present study examines a sample of pranking calls to telephone helplines for children and young people. Some cases had been posted on YouTube by the person doing the pranking; others were from a subcollection of possible pranks, extracted from a larger corpus of Australian children's counselling helpline calls. Drawing on ethnomethodology and conversation analysis we aim to understand the inferential and sequential resources involved in pranking within telephone-mediated counselling services for children and youth. Our analysis shows pranksters know the norms of counselling helplines by their practices employed for subverting them. YouTube pranksters exploit next turns of talk to retrospectively cast what the counsellor has just said as a possible challenge to the perception of the call as a normal counselling one. One practice evident in both sources was the setting up of provocative traps to break a linguistic taboo. This detailed study of pranking in interaction provides documentary evidence of its idiosyncratic yet patterned local accomplishment in telephone-mediated counselling services aimed at children and youth.

Residential programs for children and young people: What we need and what we don’t need

2007 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Ainsworth
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Home Care ◽  
Residential Care ◽  
Children And Youth ◽  
Residential Programs ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Out Of Home Care ◽  
Opinion Piece ◽  
Care System

This article is written as a bold opinion piece. It stems from the fact that once again we are seeing reports of abuse in residential care while at the same time there are calls for the reclaiming of residential care as a positive choice for children and youth. Yet there seems to be confusion as to exactly what function these programs should perform in the broader out-of-home care system. There are also important questions about the knowledge and skills that staff would require if such programs are to be non-abusive. A rejoinder to this opinion piece would be welcome.

scholarly journals Family Foster Care: Can it Survive the Evidence?

2014 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 87-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Ainsworth ◽  
Patricia Hansen
Keyword(s):  
Foster Care ◽  
Young People ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Children And Youth ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Number Of Children ◽  
Family Foster Care ◽  
South Wales ◽  
The Unemployed ◽  
Children In Care

The media coverage of foster care in Australia is replete with adoration for foster carers who look after disadvantaged and difficult children and youth. As this article is being written, New South Wales is holding a ‘foster care week’ with enhanced media coverage and praise for foster carers, the recruitment of new foster carers and acclaim for the ‘foster carer of the year’. Yet, there is another side to foster care that offers less than ideal circumstances for children in care. There is the worrying issue of multiple placements, the problem with children and young people running away from foster care before they reach the legal age for discharge, and evidence of increased incidence of poor educational attainment and involvement in juvenile offending for young people in foster care. In addition, there are cases of foster children being abused by foster carers. As adults, former foster-care children and youth are over-represented among the homeless, in adult correction centres, the unemployed and the users of mental health services. This article documents these negative outcomes of entering the foster-care system, and asks whether family (or non-relative) foster care can survive this evidence. For too many children and young people, family foster care may not provide better outcomes than less-than-optimal parental care from which the children were removed. An alternative is to reduce the use of family foster care and increase intensive support and parenting education services for birth parents who have limited parenting capacity. The aim should be to limit the number of children being taken into care.

scholarly journals Work accidents with children and youth in a rural environment in southern Brazil

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daiani Modernel Xavier ◽  
Marta Regina Cezar-Vaz ◽  
Clarice Alves Bonow ◽  
Maria Denise Schimith
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Leisure Activity ◽  
Children And Youth ◽  
Occupational Accidents ◽  
Rural Environment ◽  
Bivariate Analysis ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Rural Work

Objective: to know the prevalence of occupational accidents in children and youth who work with their families in the rural environment and to identify the associated factors. Method: exploratory, descriptive and analytical study with quantitative approach, developed in three rural areas. Participants were 211 children and young people who assisted the family in rural work. Data collection was performed using a semi-structured questionnaire. Bivariate analysis was performed using Pearson’s chi-square, Fisher’s exact, Student’s t and Mann-Whitney tests and multivariate analysis using Poisson regression. Results: the prevalence of self-reported occupational accidents was 55%. It was highlighted: insect bites (44%), burns (40.5%), falls (27.6%), injury with a working tool (16.4%), electric shock (15.5 %), burn by animal (8.6%), animal bite (6.9%) and pesticide poisoning (2.6%). These were related to shared housing, leisure activity - riding a motorcycle, product resulting from lettuce cultivation and use of personal protective equipment. Conclusion: it is believed that these findings may enhance the development of public policies aimed at preserving the health of these children and young people, regulate working conditions and reduce occupational risks in the rural environment.

scholarly journals Children and Youth Interest Education Establishment as Non-Formal Educational Environment in Latvia

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 219
Author(s):  
Benita Svareniece ◽  
Irēna Katane
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Wide Spectrum ◽  
Children And Youth ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Total Environment

<p class="Atext"><em>These days sustainability of education becomes more actual the guarantor of which appears to be the availability and multiplicity of education for every human being during the lifetime where the non-formal education takes a significant place. The aim of the article is to update the role of the interest education of children and young people in the context of life-long education when publishing the results of the completed theoretical and empirical research in the sphere of the non-formal education. The empirical research ’Interest education in Latvia and the role of the institutions of interest education’ has been accomplished within the frameworks of the working group of the constructive board of headmasters of the interest educational institutions of Latvia. The results of the survey of the children and young people acknowledge that there is a wide spectrum of motives of choosing the interest education. The choice and popularity of the programmes of the interest education have been defined by several groups of factors. It is important to offer possibilities to attend different interest groups both in the country and in towns thus gaining new out-of –school experience that can further largely result on choosing the career objectives. Both –the researches and the personal experience of the author affirm that the centres of the interest education of the children and youth are the sub-systems of multifunctional environment of the non-formal education in the total environment of the education of Latvia.</em></p>

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