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Promoting Positive Youth Development through an After-School Organized Art Activity Designed for Adolescents with Internalizing Problems
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Rocio Macabena Perez; Kim Archambault; Véronique Dupéré – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2025
Background: Mental health is a priority for high schools, but extant programs often focus on symptom reduction rather than promoting adolescents' developmental assets. Objective: The goal of this study is to examine whether Art in Mind (AIM), a strengths-based after-school organized art activity tailored to fit the needs of adolescents with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, After School Programs, Art Activities, Positive Behavior Supports
The Distinction between Exclusivity and Comorbidity within NSSI
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Goldberg, Shira; Israelashvili, Moshe – School Psychology Quarterly, 2017
Based on notions posited by problem behavior theory, the primary goal of the current study was to examine the possibility that adolescents who engage in NSSI are not a homogeneous group but are rather divided into 2 subgroups: (a) adolescents who exclusively engage in NSSI, and (b) adolescents who are involved in NSSI alongside other problem…
Descriptors: Self Destructive Behavior, Adolescents, Behavior Problems, Comorbidity
Empowering Our Children to Succeed
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Quigley, Richard – Reclaiming Children and Youth, 2014
Children must be empowered to find their unique path to personal pride and respect. The concept of empowering youth is widely touted but often misunderstood and underutilized. Young people cannot fully develop their strengths and independence without being empowered to take charge of their lives. The polar opposite of coercion, empowerment is…
Descriptors: Student Empowerment, Alienation, Self Esteem, Adolescent Development
Going It Alone: Comparing Subtypes of Withdrawal on Indices of Adjustment and Maladjustment in Emerging Adulthood
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Nelson, Larry J. – Social Development, 2013
Scholars have distinguished conceptually between multiple forms of social withdrawal among children and adolescents, but this distinction has yet to be investigated fully during emerging adulthood. Therefore, the overarching goal of this study was to employ a person-oriented approach to examine differences between subtypes of withdrawal on…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Withdrawal (Psychology), Social Development, Behavior Problems
Negative Intrusive Thoughts and Dissociation as Risk Factors for Self-Harm
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Batey, Helen; May, Jon; Andrade, Jackie – Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 2010
Relationships between self-harm and vulnerability factors were studied in a general population of 432 participants, of whom 30% reported some experience of self-harm. This group scored higher on dissociation and childhood trauma, had lower self-worth, and reported more negative intrusive thoughts. Among the non-harming group, 10% scored similarly…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, At Risk Persons, Negative Attitudes, Cognitive Processes
Growing Up Female: Navigating Body Image, Eating, and Depression.
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Graber, Julia A.; Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne – Reclaiming Children and Youth: Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Problems, 1996
Describes the dramatic increase in eating and depressive disorders experienced by significant numbers of girls as they pass through puberty. The Adolescent Study Program followed girls with eating and depressive problems across the entire adolescent decade. Discusses characteristics which are predictive of more intense problems while suggesting…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Anorexia Nervosa, At Risk Persons, Behavior Problems