Thea effect of going through Rumspringa is different for every teen, but it does impact the community as a whole. For Doris, Rumspringa impacted her as an adolescent in the following: making a decision to leave home and her family, experiencing a new household, making responsibilities, and come across an abusive relationship without knowing what may happen, due to the fact that she had been sheltered. Doris had shared how an adolescents decision can impact a community. When an adolescent chooses to be a member of the church the leaders of the church and the child's parent are grateful, “The community is grateful that the adolescent has come back because the adolescent has turned away from all their mistakes that have been taken place.” Unlike
On a Micro level of social work I feel that the strengths of the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act outweigh the weaknesses greatly. Although the services might not always benefit the client the main goal is to provide successful services to the youth. Depending on the situation it is stated in the RHYA that many youth are in need of urgent temporary shelter and services. First and for most safe and appropriate shelter is provided for the homeless youth. Individual, family and group counseling services are available under this act. () As well as providing the youth with many opportunities, such as drug prevention, street and home based services, GED and high school training, acquiring job skills and obtaining employment. Along the line of basic services offered, most age ranges are covered. Immediate shelter, a Transitional Living Program and a Maternity group home are offered to these youth coming off the streets. The Maternity Group home provides supervised transitiona...
Translated literally, rumspringa means “running around”. Amish children turn sixteen and are automatically granted freedom. This time is meant for teens to experience life outside of the Amish culture before they decide to join the Amish church and be baptized. But, this time can be extremely dangerous for them. Before rumspringa, these Amish teens have never been exposed to the activities and materials of the modern world. Gerald Vutzy, a seventeen year old Amish boy shown in the documentary, states that when kids turn sixteen they go crazy because it is all coming to them at once. If experiencing everything for the first time at once can be overwhelming and harmful to the teens. Another young Amish teen shown in the documentary is Faron Voder. Faron is the perfect example of teens taking the wrong turn and getting into dangerous activities during rumspringa. Faron is shown partying on multiple occasions, and it is also shown that he became involved with crystal meth and other illegal drugs. This not only harmed his health, but his life was also threatened.
During Rumspringa, many teenagers continue to live with their parents in the Amish community, but take up new habits like smoking, drinking, and driving a car. Some teenagers do choose to move out to get the “full experience”. At this time, Amish teenagers completely throw themselves into the modern world. Many get into using and selling hard drugs and other negative habits. For most of the Amish teenagers during Rumspringa, they “get wasted, get a hangover, and then go back” according to Gerald from the documentary Devil’s Playground: Amish Teenagers in the Modern World.
Risk factors are centered around parents and caregivers, who is a child’s first form off insight on how relationships and ultimately how the world and its inhabitants function. In many cases, if the caregiver is not emotionally or financially stable, which puts a child at a much higher risk to experience some form of abuse. This concept is prevalent throughout Jorja Leap’s book “Jumped in.” Many of the people who joined the gang life resorted to the hood because their parents were either incarcerated, too drugged out, or dead. This is a form of abuse and this emotional trauma leads the children to turn to find another form of family, which is the “hood.” Community violence is usually a negative result that comes from some form of child abuse at a very early age. As the CDC states “concentrated neighborhood disadvantage (e.g., high poverty and residential instability, high unemployment rates, and high density of alcohol outlets), and poor social connections” are a high risk factor for child to experience abuse. In “Jumped in” one of the characters, Johann speaks about how she felt abandoned by her own mother. She explains how her mother was “no damn good. She left [her] so many times. She never there when [she] need[ed] her… and she makes [her] feel like shit” (JI-Leap). Furthermore, another character explained how his “mother [was] gone and [his] father [he] never knew, [he] knows this, [he] knows [his] neighborhood” (JI-Leap). In addition another high risk factor is unwanted pregnancy by teenagers who themselves are still in the process of development.
As a social worker advocating for Jennifer, a focus on how society handles and responds to teenagers that maybe going through a rough patch in life is crucial. Many times teens perceived as difficult or unruly are often lost or thrown into the legal justice system. This is why it is important to embrace a teen that may be acting out in a negative way. Proper application of MSLC, with a teenager like Jennifer, will give insight into his or her thought process and the reasons behind the teens actions. Taking the time to understand the ecological systems, life courses, symbolic interactions and examining social change will provide an opportunity for change for a teenager, such as Jennifer (Murphy-Erby et al.,
A primary shaper of the juvenile and their actions is the environment in which they grow up in. Family environment has the potential to have a major effect on the outcome and behaviors of the juvenile (Myers 430). Family has such a huge effect because it is the earliest source of interaction the juvenile experiences. According to Louise Gerdes, “72 percent of jailed juveniles
When faced with a life altering situation although Molly’s characteristics and personality aid her in courageously defying them, the effects of facing this traumatic event will lead to long term psychological repercussions. When severe harm is inflicted on a person’s psyche, it is viewed as an emotional trauma (Levers, 2012). The emotional harm inflicted on Molly’s psyche originates from different dimensions; like her upbringing, her trauma is multidimensional too. As a child of the Indigenous community, whose ancestors and elders were killed violently in inter-group conflicts, and whose children were forcefully removed from families, Molly is would experience intergenerational trauma (Atkinson, 2002). Intergenerational trauma is trauma passed down from one generation to another; as a close knitted community group, the grief experienced by family members of losing their loved ones, would have been transferred across generations (Atkinson,
Furthermore, Children emphasized the importance and benefits of reintegration and rehabilitation. They highlighted the need for mental health and emotional support from their parents to understands themselves and capacitate them with skills in preparation for the life after rehabilitation most especially from the possible stigmatization in the society. Moreover, Children saw the need for more community interventions most especially for children within the poverty threshold or those who are in means to support themselves. (Johnson & Nurick
“Pros and Cons of Intensive Residential Treatment Programs for Teens.” Ezine Articles. Jenna Brooklyn, n.d. Web. 2 Mar. 2014. .
Throughout the course of my 10-week study, I observed approximately 20 youths aged 13-17. In order to be admitted to the shelter, youths must be “in crisis,” characterized by “behaviors or a history indicative of SED [serious emotional disturbance], experiencing signif...
For instance, its central objective is to rectify youth’s deviance behaviour that poses a threat in society such as committing petty thefts or being involved in frauds and reassuring the faith between the delinquent and the community members. Moreover, the strengths of this program are that it develops a sense of responsibility as “teens are made aware of the consequences of their actions” (Melnychuk, 2014, p.1). According to the media, the utmost influential factor that aids youth from this diversion program is the collaboration between the youth offenders and the victims, which “involves the kids attending either an accountability panel, or depending on the crime and the willingness of victims to be involved, a family conference” (Melnychuk, 2014, p.1). However, there are supplementary weaknesses that jeopardize the existence of diversion programs and their influence on youth offenders. For instance, the Ridge meadows youth diversion program continues to “to scrimp and save to get enough grant dollars to fund its $95, 000 annual budget” (Melnychuk, 2014, p.1). This conveys that diversion programs lack funding in order to attain enhanced resources and having adverse effect on youth offenders since they won’t be able to receive access to the diversion program, resulting in sentence of confinement. Overall, this program has positive influences by developing better relationships with the youth offender’s surroundings but lacks funding that only limits to minimal
In this article, Adalist-Estrin discusses the effects that parental incarceration on the adolescent population. Of the many different effects and contributing factors parental imprisonment can have on children, she targets a very prominent three that result in a lack of support and understanding of the presenting issue. The author further discusses and lists the various ways many of these adolescents may experience parental incarceration, including the feelings associated with this trauma. The article sheds light on the challenges faced with providing support as well as why it is crucial to create supportive environments for these children. Importantly, Adalist-Estrin goes on to explain the importance of the roles educators, counselors, and community advocates play as supporters. Suggestions and strategies are offered for responding to and working with this population of children, including that of a support group.
Within psychology adolescence is described as a period of transition from childhood to adulthood. It is a period between year twelve and late teens, when the physical growth is complete, the person becomes sexually mature and establishes identity (Nolen-Hoeksema, Friedricson, Loftus & Wagenaar, 2009). During this period of development, the individual has to face several risk factors, which are considered as a hazard on normal psychological development of an individual (Colman, 2009). This means, that experiencing them is associated with vulnerability, developing mental health problems and problematic behaviors such as for instance greater risk taking, school related deviance and school failure, teen pregnancy, substance misuse, aggression, violence or vandalism or in other words delinquency and antisocial behavior (Perkins & Borden, 2003). Therefore risk factors have a potential not just endanger the present developmental period, but also jeopardize the future biological and psychological development (Beam, Gill-Rivas, Greenberger & Chen, 2002; Perkins & Borden, 2003). However, not all young individual will respond to risk factors by developing negative outcomes. Some develop resilience and adapt to changes and stressors (Crawford, 2006; Perkins & Borden, 2003). Furthermore it has been suggested, that risk factors are desirable for developing this kind of positive outcome (Fergus & Zimmerman, 2005). According to Fonagy et. al. (1994) (cited in Crawford, 2006) resilience can be defined as normal development under difficult conditions. It leads to overcoming and coping with the negative effects of exposure to risk factors (Fergus & Zimmerman, 2005). To maintain this, protective factors need to be put in place (Fergus & Zimmerman, 2...
Social control can either be informal (parents etc.) or formal (police etc.) and without these controls, juveniles become more susceptible to delinquency (Shaw,McKay,1942). In the city of Erie, there are a lot of neighborhoods in which are breaking down, especially the one around the Boys and Girls club. On my last day at the Boys and Girls club, a young girl was jumped just a few blocks down from the center; she was just walking home. The city of Erie itself has pocket communities of poverty which are in close proximity to communities which are more prosperous. From others who I had talked to at the club, those who worked their often had to deal with parents who did not care, were not around, or were negative influences in the child’s life. A few of the older kids at the Boys and Girls club had been involved with gangs, drug abuse and selling, and have been effected in some way by the violence in the low income neighborhoods they lived in. Staff had notified me that sometimes the programs in which the schools or juvenile
Labeling Theory is how society labels an individual’s self-identity and behavior that may be influenced or dictated by the words to define or stigmatize them. The concept of this theory is associated with the perception of self-fulfilling insight and stereotyping. Labeling Theory indicates delinquency is not classifiable to act, but concentrates on the disposition of labeling minorities or individuals seen as deviant from cultural norms. An adolescent may stigmatize themselves, altering he or she’s self-image and feel obligated to act out similar roles corresponded by their status as a delinquent.