Opportunities and Challenges: Child and Youth Care Practice in a School-Based Setting The establishment of child and youth care work within educational settings does present important opportunities for the CYC practitioner, as well as significant challenges for consideration. Upon critical reflection, several questions are raised in where I must consider the possible advantages and areas of concern, and to further examine my purpose and place when working within such an environment. 1) What is my
2005). The Youth Criminal Justice Act (YCJA) attempts to acknowledge that different youth need different sentences within the justice system, while ensuring that it is fair and equitable for them. Many people, both in Canada, and around the world, believe that youth are not reprimanded harshly enough for the crimes they commit and that they are, in general, are able to squeeze through the justice system without punishment. Others, believe that the justice system does not treat youth fairly and punishes
involvement of youth in national development is a must. In fact, youths play one of the most important roles in nation building. Youth are not only the leaders of tomorrow, but also the partners of today. Young people are social actors of change and progress. They are a crucial segment of a nation’s development. Their contribution, therefore, is highly needed. Youth always has been the key to any of the activities in the world be it war, politics, construction works; you name it and youth has , is
Role models have an astounding effect on the lives of young people in our society. A role model has the ability to shape the views, ideals, and actions of a young person. Role models help youth to discover how they wish to become in the future. The influence that role models have over young people is tremendous. It is important for role models to be positive and responsible in instilling good morals and values because future generations are directly dependent on the role models of today. By examining
and the grown-ups that perhaps is ceaseless. Grown-ups make presumptions about children, in light of the way they dress, which pushes kids further and assist away. In the article, "Adolescent Crime Risk Factors" by Mantis Technologies (2016), the creator underlines the convictions that grown-ups started the possibility of youth distance from more established social orders and the youngsters keep it that way. Hyunzee Jung (2016) exposition, " Effects of Physical and Emotional Child Abuse and Its Chronicity
people, especially the youth depend more on digital media for their news rather than on print media like our community newspapers. Newspapers have gradually been relegated into a less prominent facet of communication. Newspapers are now seen by most young people as a boring means of acquiring news and they rely more on entertaining sources like the internet or television, for obtaining news and information about what is going on around them. Even with the dependency of youths on digital media sources
group together all (or at least a large majority) of today's youth, that word is Hedonist. Hedonist (noun): a person whose life is devoted to the pursuit of pleasure and self- gratification. In a world where young people are only living for themselves, the corporations and brands are booming. Having expensive clothes, the newest phone and an overpriced cocktail in your hand on a weeknight has never been so important. This is the essence of youth, going to parties to show off your brand new purchases,
Robert Herrick encouraging all the youths to make most their young age and get marries while they are young so they can live happily. And Langston Hughes is giving advice to her son not to up easily with hard times. She wants him to be strong and fight with hard times. In Robert Herrick’s “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time”, the speaker is telling all the young boys to make most their youth. The titles of the poem are referring sexual pleasure and urging youth to make most of it. “Gather ye rosebuds
The Prince’s Trust (2006), youth cafés are ‘safe, alcohol-free places where young people feel welcome, can meet friends, have fun and take part in a wide range of activities’. Youth café’s give young people a place they can hang out with their friends in an inclusive environment that is safe, relaxed and friendly. Youth cafés are open to both sexes from various social and cultural backgrounds. Drugs and alcohol would also be prohibited in the café. Involvement in the youth café would give the young
Braxton is a Ph.D., Director, at Innovation Center –Index Shared Services. The aim of his article is to understand the problem of youth unemployment in the Gulf Cooperation Council region and how best the government can critically address this issue. He gave several options that can be clear solution to the problem. His emphasized that the GCC countries need to adopt effective training and development programs to provide the unemployed youth with the knowledge, skills, and abilities in order for
Fredrickson;B (2017) in her article labels a new theoretical perspective on positive emotions and situates this new perspective within the emerging field of positive psychology. The broaden-and-build theory suggests that experiences of positive emotions broaden people's momentary thought-action
Popular Press Article The article is “Sibling Study Shows Little Difference between Breast- and-Bottle-Feeding” written by Alexandra Stifferlin published in TIME Magazine on February 25, 2014. Summary of the Popular Press Article The article shortly summarizes new findings of a study published in the scholarly journal Social Science & Medicine, conducted by Assistant Professor of sociology at the Ohio State University Cynthia Colen. The Times Magazine article describes the research done by Colen
Positive Effects of Sports on At Risk Youth Sports provide many opportunities for our youth today. In fact the British used sports in educational institutions to develop socialization, social control, and character on their youth (Sage 1986). Sports also provides an obvious form of entertainment in many societies as well. Many role models, heroes, and idols can originate from sports. It also provides a mean of recreation for youth to participate in and spend some free time on something constructive
multi-ethnic middle school students. (2009). International Journal of Obesity., 33. Liu, L. L., Lawrence, J. M., Davis, C., Liese, A. D., Pettitt, D. J., Pihoker, C., ... Kahn, H. S. (2010). Prevalence of overweight and obesity in youth with diabetes in USA: The SEARCH for Diabetes in Youth Study. Pediatric Diabetes, 11(1), 4-11. Wei, J., Li, H., Wang, Y., Chuang, L., Lin, M., Lin, C., & Sung, F. (2010). Detailed family history of diabetes identified children at risk of type 2 diabetes: A population-based
In Andrew Steer’s journal article, he substantiates the severity of pollution by mentioning that “carbon-intensive growth is already responsible for about 5 million deaths a year— 400,000 as a result of hunger and communicable diseases exacerbated by climate change and 4.5 million
Canada, the issues surrounding Youth Gangs has become a major issue not only for members of authority, but for the justice system. Youth gang activity, which can be defined when there is direct or indirect involvement in gang related crime or incidents, occurs in almost every province or territory in Canada, mostly in urban areas, but is increasing in other areas. In Canada, there are 434 youth gangs with about 7 000 members in total (in class notes). Not only do youth gangs exist in Canada, they exist
outcome. The main advantage of this article was to illustrate the cognitions of the partner murderers and explain what issues arise before the killings are taken place. The most fundamental limitation of this article that was not mentioned was that not many point of views were recounted, which usually could leave readers in doubt. In conclusion as more research is being done into the brutality of this topic, it is the duty of the community to address issues to the youth of today so that the stream of
Singaporeans 1. Introduction The new paper (More than half , 2012) released an article stating that a Mindshare survey carried out early this year found that 56 per cent of the 2,000-odd polled agreed or strongly agreed that given a choice they would migrate. So why is this happening? Why do so many Singaporeans want to migrate to other countries and not stay in Singapore? Another scenario, Davis, who was a torchbearer in the 2010 Youth Olympic Games, also left Singapore for Australia. He disagreed with the
number of gang-related homicides, by region, 2002 to 2012. Retrieved from Statistics Canada website: http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/85-002-x/2013001/article/11882/tbl/tbl07-eng.htm [3] Government of Canada, (2013). Youth gangs in canada: What do we know?. Retrieved from Public Safety Canada website: http://www.publicsafety.gc.ca/cnt/rsrcs/pblctns/gngs-cnd/index-eng.aspx [4] Ibid [5] Muller, R. (2013, August 24). Poverty, broken homes, violence: The making of a gang member.Psychology Today, Retrieved
This Washington Post article is an interesting read, especially because I only hear of glycemic index (GI) in relations to diabetics or pre-diabetic individuals. This article is relevant because we live in a diet obsessed society that focuses heavily on diet fads, what X celebrity is doing to lose her baby weight, or the ongoing debate of the successes or failures of a low carb/low fat diet. Many times diets do not work, especially not in the long term. Dieters are guilty of adopting tools that work