'If You Want to Win, You Have to Learn to Get Along:' Youth Talk About Their Participation in Extracurricular Activities
By Jodi Dworkin, Ph.D., and Karin Lindstrom Bremer, M.A.
The Prevention Researcher,
Volume 11, Number 2, 2004, Pages 14-16, Item# A112-DWORKIN
Abstract:
Young people report being both emotionally and cognitively engaged in youth activities in ways they are not in other parts of their lives. Research has identified six developmental processes that categorize youths' growth experiences in their activities. These include identity work; developing initiative; learning, emotional competencies; developing peer relationships and knowledge; developing social skills; and acquiring social capital. Using focus group methodology with 55 adolescents (mean age 16 years), the author's use adolescents' own voices to describe these experiences.
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Positive Youth Development
The Prevention Researcher,
Volume 11, Number 2, 2004
Positive Youth Development is a concept which recognizes that merely preventing problem behaviors is not all that is needed to prepare youth for the future. Or, in the often quoted words of Karen Pittman "problem free is not fully prepared." This issue focuses on the topic of positive youth development and its real-world applications.
This issue also featured these articles:
- • 'If You Want to Win, You Have to Learn to Get Along:' Youth Talk About Their Participation in Extracurricular Activities, Pages 14-16
- • Features of Positive Developmental Settings, Pages 8-13
- • The Community Action Framework for Youth Development, Pages 17-20
- • Youth Development Programs, Pages 3-7
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