12. Positive Prospects

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Positive youth development

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An approach to studying adolescence that focuses on factors that encourage young people to develop healthy attitudes and become engaged in productive, life enhancing activities

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Hero

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A physical, hormonal, and psychological response to the perception of danger or threat

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Coping

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The various ways adolescents develop to handle situations that create stress

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Problem-focused coping

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Trying to manage a stressful situation by analyzing it and mobilizing the means to change it in a positive direction

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Emotion-focused coping

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Trying to manage the negative psychological effects of a stressful situation that does not seem open to being changed

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Resilience

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The capacity to develop normally and positively under difficult conditions

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Five Cs

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Psychological qualities of 1) competence 2) confidence 3) character 4) connection and 5) caring that form the basic goals of positive youth development + 6th

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family contributions

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Initiative

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Ability to motivate oneself to strive toward a challenging goal

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Interest

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Quality that focuses attention on certain activities and motivates the person to engage in them

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Engagement

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An outcome when teens see themselves as active and welcome participants in the development of their community

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Community service

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A wide array of organized activities intended to help link adolescents to broader circles of their society

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Happiness

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Living a life that is good for one to live and that may include the pursuit of pleasure, the pursuit of meaning, and the pursuit of engagement

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Hope

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The capacity to imagine a better life, to want it, and to believe in the possibility that it can be achieved

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What are the two major kinds of coping strategies, and under what circumstances is each likely to be more useful?

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Problem-focused coping involves trying to manage a threat and seeking practical support. It is a more likely response when a threatening situation seems open to change. Emotion-focused coping involves trying to reduce the negative emotions created by the threat and seeking emotional support. It is a more likely response when a threatening situation seems impossible to change or avoid. Girls are more likely to prefer emotion-focused strategies and boys to prefer problem-focused strategies, but adolescents are flexible in switching between problem-focused and emotion-focused coping, depending on the situation.

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Discuss the features that extracurricular and community based activities should have to play in positive development.

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Structured activities that include positive sustained relationships between teens and adults, activities that build competencies and ways to use skills productively provide positive developmental experiences. This implies settings with such features as physical and psychological safety, clear rules and expectations, supportive relationships, and opportunities to belong and to build skills, support positive development.

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How do initiative, interest, and engagement contribute to positive development?

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Initiative is an internal motivation that directs effort toward meaningful and challenging goals. Taking an interest in events and activities becomes part of a dynamic system that generates continued and increasing interest. For teens, engagement with civil society involves seeing themselves as active, involved members of their community whose own welfare, and that of their families, friends, and neighbours, is affected by their efforts and contributions.