TAKE CHARGE

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The purpose of this study was to study if enhanced self-determination among foster youth improved their ability to take control over their lives, and pursue a greater quality of life (i.e. fulfilling educational and career goals) (Powers, Geenen, et. al., 201, 2179). Their performance in the TAKE CHARGE program for disabled/at-risk youths was compared to their ability to become more autonomous, independent, and stable providers for themselves and their loved ones. The methods used for this study were both qualitative and quantitative. According to the authors, “Sixty-nine youth (33 intervention, 36 comparison) were enrolled over three study waves and randomly assigned to either the treatment or comparison group; youth were assessed at baseline, at post-intervention, and at one year follow-up.” The subjects for this study were youth who had been: “(a) receiving special education services, (b) 16.5 to …show more content…

What the authors ultimately found was that, after one year was that the TAKE CHARGE program of enhanced motivation helped foster youth enrolled seize greater quality of life, employment, completed their educational careers, in spite of many other factors that could have hindered them from doing this, as it did with roughly 10 percent of the participants. =================== The authors acknowledge that further research will have to address larger population sizes for longer periods (2186). And further research questions will have to address the ways that self-determination research can better identify pracitces that support the ability of foster (and at-risk youth) to maintain a decent standard of living for themselves.

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