{"title":"Marketable job skills for high school students: what we learned from an evaluation of After School Matters.","authors":"Kendra P Alexander, Barton J Hirsch","doi":"10.1002/yd.20015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/yd.20015","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article summarizes findings from an experimental evaluation of After School Matters (ASM), a paid, apprenticeship-based, after-school program in Chicago for high school students. Analysis of quantitative data from a mock job interview revealed that ASM participants did not demonstrate more marketable job skills than youth in the control group. Qualitative data suggested that the nature of interpersonal interactions and the degree of professional orientation in apprenticeships contributed to variation in marketable job skills across apprenticeships. The article considers the perspective of human resource professionals who participated in the evaluation and describes an interviewing skills curriculum developed in response to the evaluation findings.</p>","PeriodicalId":83817,"journal":{"name":"New directions for youth development","volume":"2012 134","pages":"55-63, 9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/yd.20015","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"30784504","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Herbert Scheithauer, Markus Hess, Anja Schultze-Krumbholz, Heike Dele Bull
{"title":"School-based prevention of bullying and relational aggression in adolescence: the fairplayer.manual.","authors":"Herbert Scheithauer, Markus Hess, Anja Schultze-Krumbholz, Heike Dele Bull","doi":"10.1002/yd.20007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/yd.20007","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The fairplayer.manual is a school-based program to prevent bullying. The program consists of fifteen to seventeen consecutive ninety-minute lessons using cognitive-behavioral methods, methods targeting group norms and group dynamics, and discussions on moral dilemmas. Following a two-day training session, teachers, together with skilled fairplayer.teamers, implement fairplayer.manual in the classroom during regular school lessons. This chapter offers a summary of the program's conception and underlying prevention theory and summarizes the results from two evaluation studies. Standardized questionnaires showed a positive impact of the intervention program on several outcome variables.</p>","PeriodicalId":83817,"journal":{"name":"New directions for youth development","volume":"2012 133","pages":"55-70"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/yd.20007","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"30575255","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Career development during childhood and adolescence.","authors":"Erik J Porfeli, Bora Lee","doi":"10.1002/yd.20011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/yd.20011","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Identity development is central to the career development of children and adolescents. This article reviews the literature pertaining to identity development as being composed of career exploration, commitment, and reconsideration and offers some implications for career interventions.</p>","PeriodicalId":83817,"journal":{"name":"New directions for youth development","volume":"2012 134","pages":"11-22, 7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/yd.20011","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"30784500","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Technology and youth.","authors":"Gustavo S Mesch","doi":"10.1002/yd.20032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/yd.20032","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Long-term studies monitoring the process of young people adopting new media patterns of social interaction and communication with parents and peers are needed to better understand how young people cope with perpetual peer communication, how parents and adolescents deal with intergenerational conflicts, and the outcomes of these practices and conflicts.</p>","PeriodicalId":83817,"journal":{"name":"New directions for youth development","volume":"2012 135","pages":"97-105"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/yd.20032","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"31000128","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Richard M Lerner, Edmond P Bowers, G John Geldhof, Steinunn Gestsdóttir, Lisette Desouza
{"title":"Promoting positive youth development in the face of contextual changes and challenges: the roles of individual strengths and ecological assets.","authors":"Richard M Lerner, Edmond P Bowers, G John Geldhof, Steinunn Gestsdóttir, Lisette Desouza","doi":"10.1002/yd.20034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/yd.20034","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Experiencing positive and healthy youth development may be particularly challenging in the face of abrupt, major, rapid, or nonnormative ecological changes. Aligning individual youth strengths and ecological assets may promote youth thriving in the face of these changes.</p>","PeriodicalId":83817,"journal":{"name":"New directions for youth development","volume":"2012 135","pages":"119-28"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/yd.20034","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"31000130","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Supporting vocationally oriented learning in the high school years: rationale, tasks, challenges.","authors":"Robert Halpern","doi":"10.1002/yd.20018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/yd.20018","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article highlights the limitations of our current educational system in terms of vocational learning and highlights the role that vocational learning can play in supporting youth development and improving youth outcomes. It discusses the role that nonschool settings can play in supporting vocational learning and suggests strategies to improve our in-school and out-of-school systems to build a more coherent whole that promotes youth development across various settings.</p>","PeriodicalId":83817,"journal":{"name":"New directions for youth development","volume":"2012 134","pages":"85-106, 10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/yd.20018","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"30784420","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Next steps for research and practice in career programming.","authors":"Kathryn Hynes","doi":"10.1002/yd.20019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/yd.20019","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The articles in this volume of New Directions for Youth Development highlight the broad research base relevant to career programming from which policy and practice can draw. This concluding article integrates these findings to highlight next steps for research and practice related to career programming.</p>","PeriodicalId":83817,"journal":{"name":"New directions for youth development","volume":"2012 134","pages":"107-14"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/yd.20019","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"30784421","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Having a well-trained workforce is necessary for a healthy economy, productive citizens, and strong families.","authors":"Kathryn Hynes, Barton J Hirsch","doi":"10.1002/yd.20020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/yd.20020","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":83817,"journal":{"name":"New directions for youth development","volume":"2012 134","pages":"1-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/yd.20020","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"30784499","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Building business-community partnerships to support youth development.","authors":"Donna Klein","doi":"10.1002/yd.20017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/yd.20017","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A confluence of social, economic, and demographic trends has left a generation of young Americans facing an uncertain future in the workforce. If we are to improve their prospects and prepare them for rewarding careers, disparate stakeholders-employers, educators, youth advocates, and others-must work in common purpose. This article suggests ways to build community partnerships, with a special focus on engaging private employers in the effort.</p>","PeriodicalId":83817,"journal":{"name":"New directions for youth development","volume":"2012 134","pages":"77-84, 9-10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/yd.20017","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"30784506","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
William F Arsenio, Susanna Preziosi, Erica Silberstein, Benjamin Hamburger
{"title":"Adolescents' perceptions of institutional fairness: relations with moral reasoning, emotions, and behavior.","authors":"William F Arsenio, Susanna Preziosi, Erica Silberstein, Benjamin Hamburger","doi":"10.1002/yd.20041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/yd.20041","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article addresses how low-income urban adolescents view the fairness of different aspects of American society, including how wealth is distributed, the nature of legal constraints, and overall social opportunities and legitimacy. This research emerged from efforts to understand the moral and emotional nature of some adolescents' aggressive tendencies. Recently it has become clearer that aggression can serve many purposes and that, for some adolescents, aggression is a coherent though problematic response to larger familial, neighborhood, and institutional forces. Consequently, the authors focus on the connections between low-income adolescents' perceptions of institutional and interpersonal fairness, certain aggressive tendencies, and related emotion judgments. At the same time, relatively little is known about how low-income adolescents as a group perceive the fairness of wealth distribution and other broad aspects of American society. Consequently, a second important goal is to examine these adolescents' normative beliefs about institutional fairness at a time of growing financial and educational inequalities in the United States.</p>","PeriodicalId":83817,"journal":{"name":"New directions for youth development","volume":"2012 136","pages":"95-110, 10-1"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/yd.20041","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"31286173","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}