A Second Chance

2016 ◽  
pp. 1741-1758
Author(s):  
Christine S. Barrow
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Problem Behaviors ◽  
Youth Development ◽  
Positive Youth Development ◽  
School Engagement ◽  
Alternative High School ◽  
Preventative Measures ◽  
Second Chance ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Pro Social Behavior

A qualitative analysis of special education youth who attended school at a recreation center in Brooklyn NY helps provide an understanding of the relationship between alternative high school education and offending. According to Wang and Fredericks (2014), interventions that aim to improve school engagement may promote positive youth development, including reducing involvement in problem behaviors. This study focuses on youth who were at risk for offending due to poor academic performance and previous delinquent involvement. Prior to attending school at this facility, the individuals were previously exposed to an environment that put them at risk for delinquency. This investigation provides support for preventative measures to youth conflict and delinquency by placing them in an environment that promotes pro-social behavior.

A Second Chance

2016 ◽  
pp. 257-274
Author(s):  
Christine S. Barrow
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Problem Behaviors ◽  
Youth Development ◽  
Positive Youth Development ◽  
School Engagement ◽  
Alternative High School ◽  
Preventative Measures ◽  
Second Chance ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Pro Social Behavior

A qualitative analysis of special education youth who attended school at a recreation center in Brooklyn NY helps provide an understanding of the relationship between alternative high school education and offending. According to Wang and Fredericks (2014), interventions that aim to improve school engagement may promote positive youth development, including reducing involvement in problem behaviors. This study focuses on youth who were at risk for offending due to poor academic performance and previous delinquent involvement. Prior to attending school at this facility, the individuals were previously exposed to an environment that put them at risk for delinquency. This investigation provides support for preventative measures to youth conflict and delinquency by placing them in an environment that promotes pro-social behavior.

scholarly journals Family and Personal Adjustment of Economically Disadvantaged Chinese Adolescents in Hong Kong

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel T. L. Shek ◽  
Pik Fong Tsui
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Problem Behaviors ◽  
Youth Development ◽  
Positive Youth Development ◽  
Developmental Outcomes ◽  
Family Interaction ◽  
Economic Disadvantage ◽  
School Students ◽  
Positive Identity ◽  
The Relationship

This study attempted to examine the relationship between poverty and adolescent developmental outcomes in the family and personal domains in 3,328 Chinese secondary school students in Hong Kong. Developmental outcomes included positive youth development constructs, problem behaviors, perceived family interaction, and parental parenting. Results showed that adolescents experiencing poverty did not differ from nonpoor adolescents in terms of risk behavior and in most indicators of positive youth development. On the other hand, adolescents with economic disadvantage displayed lower levels of positive identity, family interaction, and perceived paternal parenting than did those without economic disadvantage.

School Engagement and Positive Youth Development: A Relational Developmental Systems Perspective

2014 ◽  
Vol 116 (13) ◽  
pp. 37-57
Author(s):  
Yibing Li ◽  
Jennifer P. Agans ◽  
Paul A. Chase ◽  
Miriam R. Arbeit ◽  
Michelle B. Weiner ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Youth Development ◽  
Positive Youth Development ◽  
School Engagement ◽  
Developmental Systems Theory ◽  
Developmental Systems ◽  
Systems Perspective ◽  
Strength Based ◽  
Relational Developmental Systems ◽  
Five Cs

This chapter explains the links between relational developmental systems theory and the strength-based, positive youth development (PYD) perspective. The Five Cs model of PYD (involving competence, confidence, connection, character, and caring) is used to assess the role of school engagement in PYD.

scholarly journals Vocational identity of at-risk emerging adults and its relationship with individual characteristics

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 375-410
Author(s):  
Rineke Keijzer ◽  
Wilfried Admiraal ◽  
Roeland Van der Rijst ◽  
Erik Van Schooten
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Individual Differences ◽  
Emerging Adults ◽  
School Engagement ◽  
Vocational Identity ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
School Outcome ◽  
School Curricula

Abstract Vocational identity is a prerequisite for enhancing societal inclusion of at-risk emerging adults. School curricula and rebound programs need insights into individual differences of these youths to effectively foster their vocational identity. Identifying three aspects of vocational identity, a questionnaire study among at-risk emerging adults in The Netherlands (N = 996) examined the relationship between clusters of demographic, personality, self-sufficiency, self-competence, and school engagement characteristics and vocational identity performing blockwise entry analyses. Largest proportions of variance were explained by personality traits and, to a lesser extent, motivation, resilience, and valuing school outcome. These malleable characteristics offer opportunities for interventions.

Sport, Educational Engagement and Positive Youth Development: Reflections of Aboriginal Former Youth Sports Participants

2016 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole Fitch ◽  
Fadi Ma'ayah ◽  
Craig Harms ◽  
Andrew Guilfoyle
Keyword(s):  
Youth Development ◽  
Positive Youth Development ◽  
Achievement Motivation ◽  
School Engagement ◽  
Youth Sports ◽  
Youth Sport ◽  
Sports Participation ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Developmental Trajectory ◽  
Educational Engagement

Participation in sport during high school has been linked with a range of educational and developmental benefits. However, there is limited research investigating the benefits of participation in sport from the perspective of Aboriginal former youth sports participants. The purpose of the current research was to investigate how participation in sports impacted on the educational engagement, aspirations and development of Aboriginal former youth sports participants. Interpretive phenomenological analysis of semistructured interviews with six participants was conducted. Analysis was conducted utilising the Positive Youth Development asset framework. Participants reported a positive influence for their participation in youth sport on key education related assets including, achievement motivation, school engagement and relationships with teachers. Participants also reflected upon the role of participation in youth sports in the development of empowerment and positive identity assets. For these participants, involvement in youth sport had clear educational and developmental benefits. It is concluded that youth sports participation is one developmental context with the potential to have a positive influence on the educational and developmental trajectory of Aboriginal youth.

The Kids are Alright

2015 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-110
Author(s):  
Almeda M. Wright
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Youth Development ◽  
Positive Youth Development ◽  
Spiritual Maturity ◽  
Development Theory ◽  
Youth Workers ◽  
Youth Engagement ◽  
Contemporary Research ◽  
Religious Lives

Discussions of adolescence and youth spirituality often focus primarily on the problems that need to be fixed in youth or their context. This essay draws upon positive youth development theory, which asserts that youth are much more than problems or at-risk. It affirms that all youth have resources that can be developed and contributions to make to their communities. This essay reviews the pervasiveness of problem-based approaches in the larger society and contemporary research on the religious lives of youth. It also calls theologians and youth workers to contribute to the shifting perspective of youth by re-imaging youth spiritual maturity as more than “adult like” and to offer a theology of adolescence which explicitly affirms youth engagement as partners with God, right now.

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