At Risk Youth

Author : J. Jeffries McWhirter,Benedict T. McWhirter,Ellen Hawley McWhirter,Robert J. McWhirter
Publisher : Nelson Education
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781133709589

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At Risk Youth by J. Jeffries McWhirter,Benedict T. McWhirter,Ellen Hawley McWhirter,Robert J. McWhirter Pdf

This text provides the conceptual and practical information on key issues and problems that students need to prepare effectively for work with at-risk youth. The authors describe and discuss the latest prevention and intervention techniques that will help future and current professionals perform their jobs successfully and improve the lives of young people at risk. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

Author : Larry K. Brendtro,Martin Brokenleg,Steve Van Bockern
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 1949539156

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Reclaiming Youth at Risk by Larry K. Brendtro,Martin Brokenleg,Steve Van Bockern Pdf

Empower your alienated students to cultivate a deep sense of belonging, mastery, independence, and generosity. This fully updated edition of Reclaiming Youth at Risk by Larry K. Brendtro, Martin Brokenleg, and Steve Van Bockern merges Native American knowledge and Western science to create a unique alternative for reaching disconnected or troubled youth. Rely on the book's new neuroscience research, insights, and examples to help you establish positive relationships, foster social learning and emotional development, and inspire every young person to thrive and overcome. Drive positive youth development with the updated Reclaiming Youth at Risk: Study the four hazards that dominate the lives of youth at risk: relational trauma, failure as futility, powerlessness, and loss of purpose. Learn how cultivating the Circle of Courage values of belonging, mastery, independence, and generosity can combat the four hazards. Explore a unique strength-based approach for reclaiming discouraged or alienated youth. Understand how to create a safe, brain-friendly learning environment and break the conflict cycle. Read personal accounts of individuals who have transformed student trauma into student resilience in schools through trauma-informed practice. Contents: Introduction Chapter 1: Enduring Truths Chapter 2: The Circle of Courage Chapter 3: Seeds of Discouragement Chapter 4: Bonds of Trust Chapter 5: Strength for Learning Chapter 6: Pathways to Responsibility Chapter 7: Lives With Purpose Chapter 8: From Surviving to Thriving References and Resources

Author : Peter Smyth
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351980883

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Working with High-Risk Youth by Peter Smyth Pdf

In the child welfare system some youth do well in their lives, but far too many do not experience positive outcomes by the time they are leaving government services. The youth often feel marginalized and that they were not involved in decisions about their own lives, leaving them with a sense of hopelessness and helplessness. This book focuses on high-risk youth - whose struggles include neglect and abuse, alcohol and drug abuse, the risk of being exploited, mental health issues, and the inability to self-regulate and trust - a population of youth that government child welfare services and community agencies struggle to serve adequately. The focus has traditionally been on punishment-consequence interventions and demanding compliance, but experience and research shows they can be better served through relationship-based practice incorporating harm reduction principles, resiliency and strength-based approaches, community collaboration, and an understanding that these youth typically come from experiences of early trauma impacting their brain development and their ability to form attachments. This book provides an overview of the Get Connected practice framework and philosophy, and provides strategies for engaging and working with the most disconnected, challenging, and troubled youth in society.

Author : Larry K. Brendtro,Martin Brokenleg,Steve Van Bockern
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015055438835

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Reclaiming Youth at Risk by Larry K. Brendtro,Martin Brokenleg,Steve Van Bockern Pdf

Based on the book by the same title, the Reclaiming Youth at Risk video workshop takes viewers inside two schools and two residential treatment centers that have experienced great success in creating environments that allow young people to transfrom crisis into opportunity and failure into success.

Author : Michael Ungar
Publisher : Corwin Press
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2006-03-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781483364186

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Strengths-Based Counseling With At-Risk Youth by Michael Ungar Pdf

This resource offers counseling strategies to promote adolescents' overlooked strengths and create healthy alternatives to problem behaviors such as bullying, drug use, violence, and promiscuity.

Author : Ranita Ray
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS
ISBN : 9780520292062

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The Making of a Teenage Service Class by Ranita Ray Pdf

"Stereotypes of economically marginalized black and brown youth focus on drugs, gangs, violence, and teen parenthood. Families, schools, nonprofit organizations, and institutions in poor urban neighborhoods emphasize preventing such "risk behaviors." In The Making of a Teenage Service Class, Ranita Ray uncovers the pernicious consequences of concentrating on risk behaviors as key to targeting poverty. Having spent three years among sixteen black and Latina/o youth, Ray shares their stories of trying to beat the odds of living in poverty. Their struggles of hunger, homelessness, and untreated illnesses are juxtaposed with the perseverance of completing homework, finding jobs, and spending long hours traveling from work to school to home. By focusing on the lives of youth who largely avoid drugs, gangs, violence, and teen parenthood, the book challenges the idea that targeting these "risk behaviors" is key to breaking the cycle of poverty. Ray compellingly demonstrates how the disproportionate emphasis on risk behaviors reinforces class and race hierarchies and diverts resources that could support marginalized youth's basic necessities and educational and occupational goals."--Provided by publisher.

Author : Robert F. Kronick
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136517211

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At-Risk Youth by Robert F. Kronick Pdf

This book is about theory, practice, and reform in working with youth who are at-risk in our schools. The book addresses several important topics, including: Problems of definition of at-risk and measurement; social, political and health aspects of being at-risk; theories of at-risk status including coping competence, agency intrinsic motivation and cultivation theory; the voices of those who are at-risk; groups that are often ignored when discussing at-risk youth, Native Americans and Appalachians; necessary changes such as prevention, early intervention, and a critical look at assessment practices and grades; a look at the role of higher education.

Author : Dave Capuzzi,Douglas R. Gross
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Psychology
ISBN : UOM:39015040482070

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Youth at Risk by Dave Capuzzi,Douglas R. Gross Pdf

Abstract: This book provides information, techniques, and strategies for a wide range of helping professionals who work with youth at risk -- counselors, teachers, parents, administrators, social workers, and those involved in educating future helping professionals. Sample programs that have been effective are described along with data on causal factors and indepth looks at teen suicide, depression, drugs, eating disorders, gangs, dropping out of school, and special abuse.

Author : James Klopovic,Michael Lee Vasu,Douglas L. Yearwood
Publisher : Civic Research Institute, Inc.
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : At-risk youth
ISBN : 9781887554350

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Effective Program Practices for At-risk Youth by James Klopovic,Michael Lee Vasu,Douglas L. Yearwood Pdf

Author : J. Jeffries McWhirter
Publisher : Brooks/Cole
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015028905670

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At-risk Youth by J. Jeffries McWhirter Pdf

At-risk behaviors are the biggest single problem with youth today, a topic of growing importance in the fields of both counseling and education. Whether the term "at-risk" connotates a local school districts problems with youth suicide and school dropout, the correction systems concerns about juvenile delinquency, or the health systems concerns with teen pregnancy, child abuse, and AIDS, the individuals labeled as such need the on-going help of professionals to help them overcome their problems. ..In the McWhirters intriguing new book, the authors show how at-risk individuals can become responsible and productive adults. The book provides up-to-date information and research on the different at-risk categories and puts the categories in a unified and consistent conceptual framework. As the authors focus on the various aspects of at-risk behaviors for the different helping professionals -- especially counselors and teachers -- they present educational, psychological, and counseling interventions for prevention and treatment for each problem area..The book is organized for teaching flexibility: the chapters may be used in sequence, or several different teaching modules can be created using the text. By combining various chapters, instructors may create an overview module, a family module, a school issues and dropout module, a prevention module, four modules based on the at-risk categories: substance use, teen pregnancy, juvenile delinquency, and youth suicide, and four modules based on treatment interventions: refusal and resistance training; an Adlerian/Driekurs model; Glassers Reality Therapy; and crisis intervention.

Author : William H. Quinn
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781583910399

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Family Solutions for Youth at Risk by William H. Quinn Pdf

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Tea Torbenfeldt Bengtsson,Signe Ravn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315440743

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Youth, Risk, Routine by Tea Torbenfeldt Bengtsson,Signe Ravn Pdf

Young people’s lives continue to be the topic of public scrutiny and recurring ‘moral panics’. Smoking cannabis, speeding, and engaging in street-level fights are depicted as activities based on ‘poor choices’ or simple hedonism, putting young people’s futures at risk. Based on comprehensive, qualitative research with young people in Denmark, this book illustrates how such individualised accounts miss out on the inherently social character of risk-taking activities. Youth, Risk, Routine introduces a new approach to risk-taking activities as being an integral and routinised part of young people’s everyday life. By applying social theories of practice, this insightful volume presents a framework for understanding the routinised dimensions of young people’s engagement in risk-taking and how this is embedded in, intertwined with, and held in place by other everyday practices. Indeed, through extensive empirical analyses of the rich material at hand, the authors explore how routinisation, coordination, embodiment, and social context are central aspects for understanding how, why, and when young people engage in risk-taking practices. Youth, Risk, Routine will be of interest to students and scholars in sociology, criminology, and social work as well as wider social science audiences, particularly those interested in exploring the empirical potential of social theories of practice.

Author : Jennifer Sweeney
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011-12-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781598846751

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Literacy by Jennifer Sweeney Pdf

This exploration of juvenile corrections librarianship provides a complete description of these specialized services, addresses unique challenges in this library environment, and promotes intellectual and social growth for at-risk youth. The facts regarding juvenile corrections are grim. In California alone, 13,000 youth are housed as wards of the state. Rearrest rates for young people in detention and correction facilities range from 77 to 90 percent. The good news is youth corrections librarianship has the potential to improve the situation. This book fills a gap in the literature on corrections librarianship, which is focused almost solely on adult prisons. Programs for juvenile offenders require significantly more emphasis on education and rehabilitation than adults. There is also greater urgency in delivering needed services to youth offenders. Literacy: A Way Out for At-Risk Youth provides librarians in juvenile detention facilities with tools to face their unique challenges, such as collaborating with corrections staff and encouraging youth to maintain their connection to the library after release. The author's recommendations for reader's advisory, collection development, and other services are geared toward helping teens cope with their problems and develop better decision making skills.

Author : Peter Dwyer,Johanna Wyn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2004-11-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134516292

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Youth, Education and Risk by Peter Dwyer,Johanna Wyn Pdf

Youth, Education and Risk: Facing the Future provides a provocative and valuable insight into how the dramatic social and economic changes of the last twenty years have affected the lives of Western youth. Covering young people's attitudes towards relationships and health, the authors provide a comprehensive perspective on young people in Western society in the 1990s. The book reviews ten years of research, policy and practice as related to the 15-25 age group and compares data from the UK, Australia, the USA and Canada. It also argues for the need to develop new research and policy frameworks that are more in tune with the changed conditions of life for Western youth. The book sets out the conceptual basis for a new approach to youth and the practical implications for research, education and youth policy in the new millenium.

Author : Timothy J. Cleary
Publisher : American Psychological Association (APA)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Behavior modification
ISBN : 1433819872

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Self-regulated Learning Interventions with At-risk Youth by Timothy J. Cleary Pdf

At-risk students dealing with cognitive, physical, mental health, and environmental challenges often have poor self-regulatory skills. They may struggle with tasks such as planning, goal-setting, and monitoring their own thoughts and actions. This volume describes how teachers, healthcare professionals, and others who work with young people can provide support and helpful strategies to students challenged by problems ranging from ADHD to conduct disorders to language learning deficits to disadvantaged backgrounds. The contributors discuss and illustrate the key components of effective self-regulatory learning, with a particular focus on the central role of feedback loops. Featuring a wide range of nationally known experts who draw on the latest theory- and research-based interventions, the book provides compelling evidence that self-regulated learning interventions are effective and powerful.