Risks and Problem Behaviors in Adolescence
- List Price: $185.00
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis
- Publish date: 08/01/1999
The second section discusses how societal institutions and, as well, public policies and intervention programs, may foster positive youth development. These articles demonstrate how an integration of basic and applied research knowledge can be used to inform policy and programs for youth. The articles provide examples of the importance of the individual-context relationships discussedin the first section. The articles demonstrate how the multiple contexts of adolescents may be structured in order to enhance the likelihood of promoting positive youth development while, simultaneously, decreasing the risks linked to problem behaviors. A consistent theme in these articles is the need to match features of the policies or programs designed for either the prevention of negative behavior of for the promotion of positive behavior with the specific and unique needs of the targeted population of adolescents.
Clearly, the message across the volume is one of hope about the possibility of enriching the lives of adolescents through promoting systematic interpersonal and institutional relations that meet the developing needs of diverse youth. Amid the enormous changes associated with this period of adolescence, and in the face of the great variability in both positive and negative dimensions of youth behavior, there is the potential that policies and programs can improve the life chances and enhance the development of all adolescents. This volume affords the opportunity to witness how theory informs practice and how practice informs theory and research. The volume suggests that, in many instances, we know what to do to serve adolescents. It leaves us with the issues of whether we have the will to do it.
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