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Stewart, Debra; Gorter, Jan Willem; Freeman, Matt – Prevention Researcher, 2013
The three common themes are emerging from recent research on positive approaches to adult transitions for youth with disabilities. The first theme acknowledges that a person's condition is only one factor that influences the developmental process of transitioning into adulthood; the second theme addresses the complexity of the numerous…
Descriptors: Transitional Programs, Best Practices, Youth Opportunities, Adolescent Development
Balk, David E. – Prevention Researcher, 2011
In order to provide the best support possible to grieving youth it is important to understand how bereavement impacts adolescent development and how adolescent development impacts bereavement. In this article, prominent youth bereavement author, David Balk, explores these two key components focusing on cognitive, behavioral, and affective…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Grief, Adolescents, Cognitive Processes
Liang, Belle; Commins, Meghan; Duffy, Nicole – Prevention Researcher, 2010
While youth typically turn to social media for gossip, photo sharing, and friendship building, can it also be used to inspire them toward greater goals? The creators of GenerationPulse.com explore how two theories salient to adolescent social development (positive youth development and relational health) were used to shape a social media website…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Adolescents, Social Development, Adolescent Development
McGuire, Jenifer K.; Conover-Williams, Meredith – Prevention Researcher, 2010
This article explores the opportunity to create spaces within the family, school, and community that specifically promote the well-being of transgender adolescents and young adults. When social contexts are supportive, transgender youth report significantly less risk. Supportive home and school environments have been linked to better outcomes…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Adolescents, Sexual Identity, Social Attitudes
Russell, Stephen T. – Prevention Researcher, 2010
How do social services professionals identify and design supportive environments that promote the positive development of LGBT youth? Although there are extraordinary examples of individuals and programs that exist for the purpose of supporting LGBT youth and fostering their development, the work of documenting and empirically analyzing what works…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Homosexuality, Social Services, Sexual Identity
Ryan, Caitlin – Prevention Researcher, 2010
Families play a critical role in child and adolescent development and well-being, and connections to family are a protective factor against major health risk behaviors. However, few research studies have looked at the family context for LGBT youth, and in fact, when LGBT youth do seek services they are not routinely asked about their families and…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Homosexuality, Family Involvement, Parent Child Relationship
Brooke-Weiss, Blaire; Haggerty, Kevin P.; Fagan, Abigail A.; Hawkins, J. David; Cady, Rick – Prevention Researcher, 2008
Advances in prevention science in the past 25 years provide important direction for neighborhood and community efforts to improve the lives of youth. Prevention scientists have applied a public health approach to youth problems such as drug use and delinquency, and have shown that these problems can be prevented. The identification of risk and…
Descriptors: Youth Problems, Behavior Problems, Prevention, Public Health
Zimmer-Gembeck, Melanie J.; Skinner, Ellen A. – Prevention Researcher, 2008
This article summarizes what is known about stress, stress reactions, and coping among adolescents. Throughout, it focuses on typical developmental patterns by highlighting the emerging experiences of adolescents and how they differ from children and adults. It also briefly discusses differences between individuals, boys and girls, and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Coping, Interpersonal Competence, Stress Variables
Guilamo-Ramos, Vincent; Bouris, Alida – Prevention Researcher, 2009
Although parents play a vital role in fostering healthy sexuality-related attitudes and behaviors among adolescents, many parents struggle with how to address sexuality-related topics with their adolescent child. This article provides practitioners with evidence-based frameworks and guidelines on how to work with parents in order to improve their…
Descriptors: Sex Education, Adolescents, Sexuality, Adolescent Development
Banyard, Victoria L.; Williams, Linda M. – Prevention Researcher, 2007
Using an ecological model as a guiding framework, this article reviews key factors which put adolescent survivors of sexual abuse at risk for negative outcomes, as well as resources which might enhance positive outcomes and recovery. Throughout the article, quotes from women who experienced sexual abuse during their youth highlight opportunities…
Descriptors: Sexual Abuse, Adolescent Development, Adolescents, At Risk Persons
Mitra, Dana – Prevention Researcher, 2006
"Student voice" describes the many ways in which youth might have the opportunity to participate in school decisions that will shape their lives and the lives of their peers. Student voice opportunities allow students to work with teachers and administrators to co-create the path of reform, it enables youth to meet their own developmental needs,…
Descriptors: Student Leadership, Student School Relationship, Student Participation, Adolescent Development
Perreira, Krista M.; Smith, Luke – Prevention Researcher, 2007
If current trends continue, over 20% of American children will be the children of immigrants and many will be Latino within the next decade (Urban Institute, 2006). Thus, health, education, and prevention professionals will likely work with immigrant youth at some point in their careers. This article provides professionals with a…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Intervention, Ecology, Migration
Jacobs, Anne K.; Vernberg, Eric; Lee, Stephanie J. – Prevention Researcher, 2008
Adolescents possess numerous strengths and vulnerabilities based on their unique stage of development. When youth experience a disaster, whether natural or human-caused, there are certain considerations to be taken into account when providing them with support. This article describes common adolescent reactions to the impact phase of disasters as…
Descriptors: First Aid, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Adolescents, Therapy
Gambone, Michelle Alberti; Connell, James P. – Prevention Researcher, 2004
The last decade has seen an explosion of interest in "youth development" as both a policy and a community approach to helping children achieve healthy outcomes as young adults. Despite the success of frameworks which have shifted the focus from intervening with teenagers who exhibited "high risk" behaviors to improving developmental outcomes as…
Descriptors: Community Action, Young Adults, Adolescents, Guidelines
Balk, David – Prevention Researcher, 2002
Bereavement researchers have made some significant advances in the understanding of the dynamics and the processes of managing grief. In this article, the author presents three of these advances that are central to a discussion of adolescent grief and of preventive interventions: (1) Increasingly, both clinical and research evidence indicate that…
Descriptors: Grief, Adolescents, Coping, Prevention
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