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\"This title in the Opposing Viewpoint series examines the important topic of school safety, asking such questions as: Are schools safe? Can better gun policy make schools safer? Can security measures make schools safer? and What is the relationship between health care issues and student safety?\"--Publisher's website.
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Contextual and Behavioral Correlates of Coping Strategies Among an Ethnically Diverse Sample of Urban Adolescents in the Midwestern United States
Coping is recognized as an important life skill. In the present cross-sectional analysis, early adolescents’ relationships with their caregivers (support, conflict) and exposure to stressors (uncontrollable life events, violence) were examined as contextual correlates of both positive and negative coping strategies. Coping strategies were examined as mediators of associations between adolescents’ family and community contexts and adjustment outcomes (externalizing symptoms, internalizing symptoms, academic investment). Participants were recruited from an urban Pre-K-8 school and Boys and Girls Club. Adolescents who reported greater support from caregivers reported greater engagement in all forms of positive coping (behavioral/problem-focused coping, cognitive/emotion-focused coping, and coping through seeking support); they also reported less engagement in coping through anger and helplessness. Adolescents who reported greater conflict with caregivers or violence exposure reported greater engagement in coping through avoidance, anger, and helplessness. Problem-focused coping, coping through anger, and coping through helplessness mediated associations between different contextual factors and outcomes.
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“Hitting the Streets”: Youth Street Involvement as Adaptive Well-Being
Youth involved in illegal street activities such as drug trafficking and violence are at high risk for school failure and other negative outcomes. Research often seeks to identify what is \"wrong\" with them, what makes them different from \"normal\" youth, but relatively few studies focus on variations in how youth engage in and make meaning of street activity as embedded within the contexts of their lives. In this article, Tara Brown examines how eighteen young adults in a predominantly Latina/o urban community experienced and understood their involvement in street activities. She draws on interview data from a participatory action research project that studied how and why participants were involved in street activities while they were attending K-12 schools. Framing street activities as adaptive responses aimed at well-being, she examines participants' involvement in relationship to their life circumstances, needs, and desires within the context of street life and proposes how youth may be similarly and differently oriented toward street activity. Ultimately, Brown argues that more complex understandings of youths' street involvement require deeper knowledge about its adaptive and varied nature, which can benefit educational researchers and practitioners in more effectively supporting these young people in achieving long-term well-being.
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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) State-Of-the-Science Conference on Preventing Violence and Related Health-Risking Social Behaviors in Adolescents -- A Commentary
Although youth in the United States remain substantially more violent than adolescents and young adults in most industrial countries, the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) State-of-the-Science Conference on Preventing Violence and Related Health-Risking Social Behaviors in Adolescents identified many reasons for optimism about our capacity to develop effective prevention and intervention responses. The research is getting better and contrary to popular opinion we do know a lot about what does work. Future advances will depend upon our insistence on the use of effectiveness evidence and the development of a taxonomy which will facilitate cross disciplinary communication.[PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
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