Interventions in Child and Youth Development Essay

Journal Activity 2.4: Risk and resilience factors for child mental health There are many resources that are uncovered through a basic internet search for the terms ‘child mental health risk factors’ and ‘child mental health resilience’. Some of the sources are scholarly and peer reviewed while others are more popular and mainstream in nature. In order to enhance my previous learning in the course, I selected to review scholarly resources from a number of research journals as well as…

witness domestic violence within their homes. Many choose to believe that domestic violence only affects those involve but that is not true, at all. In the process of my research, it was shocking to discover that many professional such as child and youth workers were ineffective in assisting this population. In my personal opinion, I felt this was an interesting topic to discuss and research. Firstly, there has been a notably increase of aggressive behaviors among school children. Secondly…

Literature Review About 50,000 people are infected with HIV each year, and one in four is thirteen to twenty four years old. Youth make up seven percent of the more than one million people in the US living with HIV. About 12,000 youth were infected with HIV in 2010 (HIV Among Youth in the US, 2012). HIV has become the sixth leading cause of death among the adolescent population (Romer et al., 1994). This is important given the steady growth in the estimated numbers of persons living with…

Big Brothers, Big Sisters of America is a volunteer-based intervention organization that has assisted the youth population by changing their perspectives and giving the youth the opportunity to reach their full potential. The organization’s procedure is pairing a child with a mentor which results in building a strong relationship with unrestricted potential. Mentors go through background checks and necessary training to be able to volunteer as a big brother or a big sister. In the present paper,…

instrumental aggression would be a child who sees another child playing with a ball they want, this child then approaches the other child and physically takes the ball or manipulates the other child into giving the ball up. An example of relational aggression is when a child is intentionally mean to another just to hurt their feelings. Both of these forms of aggression could be observed dozens of times by merely sitting on an elementary school…

Although probation may seem like a good alternative over incarceration for many juveniles for certain offenses, there has been research and critiques who claim that it is ineffective and not helpful to the youth. There have seemed to many oversights to planning, developing and implementing juvenile probation programs and agencies seem more concerned on emphasizing the "process" rather than the results that come about from juvenile probation. In my research…

(Kuruvilla, 2007). Children that come from low income families tend to have higher rates of depression, cheating, and anti-social behaviour such as bullying, telling lies and breaking things (Kuruvilla, 2007). If the family is chronically poor, a child has an increased tendency to have a lower cognitive performance (Kuruvilla, 2007). As they reach adolescence they are more likely to engage in drug and alcohol use and have an increase in mental health problems (Kuruvilla, 2007). The changes in…

Teenagers and other youth offenders should not be able to receive life without parole as a punishment for their crimes. Teenagers have the highest capacity for rehabilitation out of all of the prisoners in any institutions. Most teens who commit capital crimes come from homes where abuse from family members is common, yet intervention by social services is lacking. The kind of stress from this abuse, can make it possible for teens to act out in violent ways, committing heinous crimes.…

has their own set of requirements, and only an approved set of individuals has access to these test results. Best Practices When practitioners evaluate a child, a common way of doing so is through the use of norm-referenced tests; meaning that the answers the tests conclude are based on the average score of those most similar to the child. When we think about the best possible practice of implementing a norm-referenced test, it is important to consider the validity and the reliability of the…

the severity of the symptoms there is flexibility to choose which intervention would work best, of course what works for some may not fare well with others, so it is important to get to know the family and allow them to be included in which treatments will work for them. From what I have seen working in the mental health field in the rural community, most intervention for autism are conducted one on one initially and as the child progresses or show improvements they are introduced to group…