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Jenna Spitzer; Stathis Grapsas; Astrid M. G. Poorthuis; Maarten Vansteenkiste; Sander Thomaes – Child Development Perspectives, 2025
Today's youth are growing up in a world threatened by climate change. Facing an uncertain future, young people--and especially adolescents--tend to be concerned about climate change, even more so than other age groups. How can socializing agents (e.g., educators, policymakers, clinicians) support and engage adolescents as they come of age in a…
Descriptors: Self Determination, Climate, Adolescents, Adolescent Development
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Omolola A. Odejimi; Leslie F. Clark – Journal of Youth Development, 2025
Positive youth development (PYD) programs have increased positive outcomes for adolescents, however research on the underlying change processes in these programs remains limited. The 5Cs (Competence, Confidence, Character, Caring and Connection) of PYD are a framework of desirable outcomes for youth programs. Change to metacognition is proposed as…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Youth Programs, Adolescent Development, Outcomes of Education
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Yesim Yurdakul; Yelda Kublay – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2025
Background: This study aims to systematically synthesise qualitative research findings regarding the sexual development of adolescents with intellectual disabilities (ID) from the perspective of their parents. Method: A comprehensive search across seven databases identified 15 studies on parents' experiences regarding the sexual development of…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Puberty, Intellectual Disability, Parent Attitudes
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Emma Armstrong-Carter; Eva H. Telzer – Child Development Perspectives, 2025
Many young people are inclined toward risk taking and also toward helping other people. "Prosocial risk taking" is a term that can describe different ways that youth provide significant instrumental and emotional support to family members, friends, and strangers, even when it involves a personal risk. In this article, we review research…
Descriptors: Risk, Prosocial Behavior, Child Development, Developmental Stages
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Thomas W. Farmer; Kevin S. Sutherland – Beyond Behavior, 2025
All students have emotional and behavioral difficulties periodically. Some students have difficulties at a rate, duration, and intensity significantly higher than those of their peers. We summarize the knowledge base on the development, maintenance, and change of emotional and behavioral disorders across the school years. Building from dynamic…
Descriptors: Student Needs, Student Behavior, Behavior Problems, Behavior Disorders
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Peter J. O. Aloka; Oluwakemi Ajayi; Lilian Zindoga; Nzukiso Mnyamana – Perspectives in Education, 2025
The psychological impacts of war on young learners' social and emotional development are examined in this integrated review. Not only can war and armed conflict have a profound influence on individual children, but they also negatively affect the entire family system. The difficulties associated with relocation, migration, and acclimatisation to…
Descriptors: War, Social Development, Emotional Development, Cognitive Development