Psychosocial Problems/Positive Youth Dev

Question 1

What is the problem behaviour theory?

Answer 1

There are underlying clusters of risks that predict youth problem behaviour. Both risk and protective factors included. Risk is multiply determined.

Question 2

What is the idea behind positive youth development?

Answer 2

Youth as an asset rather than a problem. Developmental process and an approach to youth programing. Idea that youth have assets to be developed, and if we do them properly, it sets them up for success.

Question 3

What are the 4 external assets?

Answer 3

1) Support- Positive, caring relationships with adults
2) Empowerment - Encourage youth to act in communities, sense of purpose and value
3) Boundaries and expectations: Importance of clear and consistent messages across contexts, adults and peers who model positive behaviour
4) Constructive use of time.

Question 4

What are external assets?

Answer 4

Assets here come from positive developmental experiences, relationships, and opportunities that adults provide.

Question 5

What are internal assets?

Answer 5

Competencies, skills, and self-perceptions that youth develop over time.

Question 6

What are the 4 internal assets?

Answer 6

1) Commitment to learning- Personal belief that values academic success
2) Positive values - prosocial values, helping, equality, social justice
3) Social competencies- personal skill, dealing with choices, challenges, and opportunities presented in the complex world
4) Positive identity: Self esteem, sense of purpose etc.

Question 7

What is the idea behind positive youth development?

Answer 7

A strengths-based, ecologically nested framework of adolescent development. Youth strengths + developmental assets = positive developmental wellbeing, mental health. Measured by 5c’s framework.

Question 8

What are the 5 C’s?

Answer 8

1) Competence
2) Confidence
3) Connection
4) Character
5) Caring

Question 9

What is competence?

Answer 9

Positive view of own actions in certain areas

Question 10

What is confidence?

Answer 10

Internal sense of positive self-worth and self-efficacy.

Question 11

What is connection?

Answer 11

Positive bonds with people and institutions

Question 12

What is character?

Answer 12

Respecting social rules and values, sense of right and wrong, morality

Question 13

What is caring?

Answer 13

Sympathy and empathy for others.

Question 14

What is the idea behind social justice youth development?

Answer 14

Assets and youth strength, but a sole focus on this makes us lose sight of youth without access to these things. Current frameworks do not account for complex social, economic, and political forces.

Question 15

How does social justice youth development add a structural lens?

Answer 15

Social toxins: Macrolevel beliefs that are oppressive and shape youth development. How are supports, opportunities, and risks within the adolescent development period shaped by oppression.

Question 16

What is the praxis process?

Answer 16

Critical consciousness and social action, cycle of critical reflection and action- what do larger social arrangements mean? Through this thought process, the youth develops a sense of self-awareness, social awareness, and global awareness.

Question 17

What is the ultimate outcome of youth social justice dev?

Answer 17

Social political development: The knowledge and skills to resist oppression and interpret it.

Question 18

What does competence mean in the context of SJYD?

Answer 18

Empowerment, social problematizing, critical thinking, asking an answering questions about the social environment

Question 19

What does confidence mean in the context of SJYD?

Answer 19

Pride of ethnic features, positive regard, racial and ethnic esteem, purpose.

Question 20

What does connection mean in the context of SJYD?

Answer 20

Being part of something meaningful

Question 21

What does character mean in the context of SJYD?

Answer 21

Positive orientation toward life circumstances and events.

Question 22

What does caring mean in the context of SJYD?

Answer 22

Empathy with the suffering of others.

Question 23

What are the 5 components to fostering social change in youths?

Answer 23

1) Analyze power in social relations
2) Makes identity central (exploration and solidarity) central to understanding power and privilege
3) Promotes systemic social change- challenge oppressiveness, build youths capacity to make change
4) Encouraging collective action
5) Embraces youth culture