Interventions in Child and Youth Development Essay

them”- Magic Johnson. A child and youth worker has many different jobs in one. You are a counselor, mentor, parent, and friend to the child. They work with troubled teens and support them in their most crucial years of their lives. The worker can start activities and events for the students or clients. I have chosen to research a child and youth worker because I want to help students, take after what my parents do, and go deeper into a child’s mind. Being a child and youth worker is a part of…

professional counselors have a duty to warn if a client has express intent to harm another; duty to report when a child, elder, or disable person is being abused or neglected, and report if the client is a danger to themselves. Transition into adolescence is a daunting growing pain alone; however, when many adolescence stressors begin to pile up with no light at the tunnel. Many of our youth find the solution and taking their own lives; suicide remains the third leading cause of death for…

network which promote abstinence and responsible sexual behavior within the teen’s community or school. Another primary intervention would be providing teens with comprehensive education about healthy relationships, sex, and contraceptives; teachers involved in health education classes should be open-minded, teen-friendly, nonjudgmental, and well educated in regards to development, psychology, sexuality of adolescents, and contraceptives. The CHN could open a blog, where teens can ask questions,…

males under the age of l8 make up 10% of today’s population; however, they attribute to 60% of incarceration (Barbarin, 2010, p.81). As a result, states are allowing courts to charge youths as young as 14 years of age as adults and place them in adult facilities. These facilities often do not address the problems that youth are experiencing. States, specifically Louisiana has not seen a decline in incarceration since the passing of The Juvenile Justice Reform Act of 2003 (Act 1225). The purpose…

arrested for arson in the US were juveniles. For this reason, Juvenile Fire Setting Intervention Programs were spread across the US in an attempt to decrease arson and better understand the intents of these youth. Though there is no well-established treatment for pyromania, psychological therapy such as aversion therapy, reinforcement schedules, social skills training, family therapy, and multimodal interventions have been found to help. Most adults with pyromania tend to go straight through the…

particular gender role (Ibid). Some authors have come to perceive teenage pregnancy as resulting from female gender role (Parekh & De La Rey, 1997). Adolescent pregnancy should be understood in a social context in which it occurs. Society socialises its youth through institutions, family, peers and media (Galambos, 2004), and thus the adolescent will clarify for himself or herself the gender role as constructed by the society that he or she belongs to. According to Bierie & Bingham (1994),…

This can be done by intervention, recreation and even community involvement. As life has not given us all a guide to becoming the perfect parent, there are available programs that can properly inform parents on how to raise healthy children. Such programs can bring awareness to…

Educational Injustice Education is invaluable to all the young people in the United States, but it is a necessity for most youth in the juvenile justice system. Research shows education offered in juvenile correctional facilities must be the same quality of learning opportunities that non-offending youth receive. “Today any juvenile justice system that does not place education for young people as the essential, central element of rehabilitation and prevention has failed” (Suitts, Dunn, &…

first, the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), was founded in 1998 and is acknowledged as one of the most prominent civil society organizations active in campaigning for AIDS treatment. (TAC website) Two of TAC’s main campaigns include the mother-to-child campaign and the antiretroviral campaign. TAC used various methods to pressure South Africa’s government to provide AIDS treatment such as working with scientists, academics, health professionals, even Doctors without Borders. At the local level,…

overwhelming number of assessment tools that seek to measure the deficits of children. Contrary to assessments of this nature, the BERS-2 aims to measure children's’ emotional and behavioral strengths through a battery of three separate rating scales. The child, along with a parent and teacher, go about completing their respective rating scales, which collect information regarding interpersonal strength, family involvement, intrapersonal strength, school functioning, and affective strength.…