Positive Youth Development Video Analysis

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Positive Youth Development was created to give the youth an opportunity to thrive and to make an easier transition from adolescence into adulthood. They are taught through programs and organization skills and are given the knowledge to become beneficial and healthy individuals for the future. PYD considers each youngsters unique characteristic and strengths to help them grow into more effective people. These programs are set to achieve these goals in assisting the youth become more improved adults then our generation is teaching the parents and communities on how to implement this development.
Many other approaches are taught by removing what is actually going wrong with the child. Removing a bad behavior is only taking away a negative aspect. …show more content…

Lerner’s BYFS Patent Lecture, we see how society has constructed a predisposition for adolescence to be problematic and a time of turmoil. Dr. Lerner explains how this is not true. Teenagers normally do not go through such turmoil in adolescence. All people have problems and those who experience disturbance usually express it in childhood. I found this point interesting because it demonstrates that we have a misconstrued view of what adolescence is, and we treat teenagers in a specific way when we should not. Another point I found intriguing was, 2/3 of kids who fall at the highest level of PYD have nothing to do with their race, ethnicity, SES (very minimum), geographic areas. What does matter is gender, girls have a higher rate in PYD than boys by 20% but girls show more sadness. Usually, such factors like race and SES affect the outcome of many people, and here it did not matter. The final interesting point I found in the video was the relationship the child should have with a mentor and the length of time that he or she should be involved in the child’s life. There is a minimum of one year to have a good outcome for the child and if it less than a year the child could show worse behavior than he or she was previous to having a mentor. This shows the importance of the youngsters having an adult in their lives and how it helps establish positive youth

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