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Brittany Pinkerton; Stacie K. Pettit – Strategies: A Journal for Physical and Sport Educators, 2024
To foster positive youth development (PYD), sport organizations, programs, coaches, and program leaders should use holistic youth development in a pro-social manner and provide a nurturing climate. This article offers an idea for a tangible way to promote PYD in sport and physical activity settings via a patch system.
Descriptors: Athletics, Adolescent Development, Children, Adolescents
Cynthia L. Cameron – British Journal of Religious Education, 2025
Good religious education needs to be rooted in a robust theological anthropology. The Roman Catholic Church's gender complementarity approach is inadequate for accompanying adolescents in Catholic schools as they engage in questions of gender and sexuality; instead, educators need a theological anthropology oriented towards adolescent flourishing.…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Catholic Schools, Adolescents, Adolescent Development
Anne J. Maheux; Shedrick L. Garrett; Kara A. Fox; Nathan H. Field; Kaitlyn Burnell; Eva H. Telzer; Mitchell J. Prinstein – Child Development Perspectives, 2025
Social gaming--online gameplay involving digital interactions with others--is a common form of social media use among adolescents. Research on this topic has neglected the social aspect of gaming and the potential role of social gaming in adolescent development. In this article, we define social gaming, drawing on interdisciplinary theories to…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Games, Social Media, Play
Michael Kokozos; Maru Gonzalez – Journal of Extension, 2024
Youth-adult partnerships are a powerful means to nurture and amplify youths' voices and create social change. Drawing on our own framework, critical positive youth development, and our experience pilot testing the #PassTheMicYouth curriculum, we identified four promising practices to cultivate youth-adult partnerships. 4-H professionals can use…
Descriptors: Social Change, Partnerships in Education, Interpersonal Relationship, Student Empowerment
Charlyn Harper Browne – Center for the Study of Social Policy, 2024
The Center for the Study of Social Policy (CSSP) developed the "Strengthening Families Approach and Protective Factors Framework" (SF) and the "Youth Thrive Protective and Promotive Factors Framework" (YT) in response to an urgent need in the fields of child maltreatment prevention and youth services to shift from a primary…
Descriptors: Children, Adolescents, Child Welfare, Child Development
Holly Henderson Pinter; Kim K. Winter; Kayleigh Kassel – Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2025
"Middle School Today" is clustered into major themes: adolescent development and identity, the adolescent learner, curriculum and instruction, and the contemporary middle school. The book describes the components related to adolescent development starting with simple principles from psychology regarding the physical, cognitive, and…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Adolescent Development, Self Concept, Educational Research
Amy Lang – Afterschool Matters, 2024
In light of the proven benefits of high-quality afterschool STEM programming for teens, the author worked with colleagues at University of Maryland Extension to institute the Pollinator Ambassador program. The program was launched through a county-based 4-H program at a partner site in a community outside Washington, DC. Following the 4-H Thriving…
Descriptors: STEM Education, After School Programs, Entomology, Partnerships in Education
Frank J. Snyder; Fatimah E. Khan – Gifted Education International, 2025
This article discusses concepts related to character strengths and positive youth development and how these ideas can be applied to improve outcomes among gifted young people. A theory with roots in public health, The Theory of Triadic Influence (TTI), is discussed with examples applied to gifted populations. Practitioners and researchers from…
Descriptors: Youth, Academically Gifted, Gifted, Gifted Education
Liane C. Pereira; Deborah A. Ith – Psychology in the Schools, 2024
Poor mental health in childhood and adolescence has a significant impact on both physical and mental health throughout life. However, growing evidence suggests that current levels of child and adolescent mental health (CAMH) care are insufficient to meet the needs of many children and adolescents in the United States as evidenced by increasing…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Access to Education, Mental Health Programs, Developmental Stages
Steven B. Mertens; Micki M. Caskey – Middle Grades Review, 2024
Young adolescents undergo rapid physical, cognitive, social, emotional, and sexual development, including puberty, sexual awareness, gender identity, physiological brain and cognitive growth, complex emotions, and impulse control. Tragically, thousands of adolescents die daily from mostly preventable causes such as violence, sexual health problems…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Middle School Students, Risk Assessment, At Risk Persons