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America's Youth in Crisis - Challenges and Options for Programs and Policies (Hardcover)
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America's Youth in Crisis - Challenges and Options for Programs and Policies (Hardcover)
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Richard M. Lerner's work presents a powerful and emotive treatise
on the crisis facing America's youth. Drawing on a wide range of
statistical evidence to support his arguments, he graphically
demonstrates the risks of drug and alcohol abuse, unsafe sexual
practices, teenage pregnancy, school drop out and academic
underachievement, delinquency, crime, and violence facing American
youth at historically unprecedented levels. . . . This is an
authoritative, well-researched piece of work that takes a
refreshing and positive look to the future of action research in
collaboration with empowered communities to provide for needs and
treasure the community resources that have in the past been paid
scant attention. America's Youth in Crisis is both forward thinking
and imaginative and will challenge researchers, policymakers, and
practitioners faced with the crisis of American youth. --Heather
Leitch in Journal of Adolescence "Lerner's work presents a powerful
and emotive treatise on the crisis facing America's youth. Drawing
on a wide range of statistical evidence to support his arguments he
graphically demonstrates the risks of drug and alcohol abuse,
unsafe sexual practices, teenage pregnancy, school drop-out and
academic under-achievement, deliquency, crime and violence facing
American youth at historically unprecedented levels. Lerner calls
for a comprehensive and integrated national policy on youth to
address these risk factors which he sees as threatening the very
fabric of American society. This is an authoritative,
well-researched piece of work which takes a refreshing and positive
look to the future of action research in collaboration with
empowered communities to provide the needs, and treasure the
community resources which have in the past been paid scant
attention. It is both forward-thinking and imaginative and will
challenge researchers, policy-makers and practitioners faced with
crisis of American youth." --Heather Leitch in Journal of
Adolescence Our nation's youth are at risk for drug and alcohol
abuse, unsafe sexual practices, teen pregnancy, academic
underachievement, delinquency, and crime and violence. What can be
done to prevent these problems from occurring? Outlining a vigorous
"call to arms," this volume describes the steps needed to overcome
these potential problems by enhancing academic researchers'
responsiveness to the needs of the community and encouraging them
to apply the results of research findings to community outreach.
After reviewing the problems that beset today's youth, Lerner
offers a model, developmental contextualism, that provides a
theoretical framework for viewing child and adolescent development
in relation to specific features of environmental "context" such as
family, neighborhood, society, culture, etc. This model is used to
describe the problems and the potentials that are associated with
the bidirectional relationships between youth and their contexts.
Lerner asserts that by altering the context in which youth live,
researchers can test the effectiveness of policies and/or programs
in creating desired changes in children's and adolescents' behavior
and development. Researchers and practitioners interested in child
and adolescent development, family studies, child and family
policy, and program evaluation will find this thought-provoking
book useful in their studies and programs. "Brief and often
abstract, the book first describes the crises facing America's
children and adolescents... The ideas proposed by Lerner could
transform programs for America's youth and revitalize applied
research." --Choice "One of the nation's most eminent developmental
psychologists has applied his mastery of adolescent research and
theory to a new challenge. In America's Youth in Crisis he focuses
his attention on solutions, showing how research and outreach come
together in successful prevention programs." --Graham B. Spanier,
Chancellor, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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