Individual and ecological assets and positive developmental trajectories among gang and community‐based organization youth

Taylor, Carl S.; Lerner, Richard M.; Eye, Alexander von; Balsano, Aida B.; Dowling, Elizabeth M.; Anderson, Pamela M.; Bobek, Deborah L.; Bjelobrk, Dragana

doi:10.1002/yd.16

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“…In addition, the phenomenological variant of ecological systems theory posits that all youth have individual and contextual assets that can help ensure positive healthy adolescent development (Taylor et al, 2002). Given America's increasingly diverse population of adolescents, risk exposures, strengths, and competencies of youth of color within their specific environments and experiences are important to consider, given the ecological-developmental framework (García Coll et al, 1996).…”

Section: Phenomenological Variant Of Ecological Systems Theorymentioning

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Fostering Resilience Among Urban Youth Exposed to Violence

Jain

Cohen

2013

Health Educ Behav

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Most studies to date have examined negative effects of exposure to community violence, in line with the deficit-based perspective. However, given that most youth exposed to community violence demonstrate positive adaptation or resilience over time, we suggest a shift in perspective, practices, and policies across systems toward identifying and building individual, family, and community assets and strengths that may more effectively support youth who have been exposed to community violence and related risks into competent, caring, and thriving adults. In this article, we review how resilience has been conceptualized and operationalized within the context of community violence, highlight gaps in literature, and offer directions for future public health research and practice. We illustrate this review with practice-based examples from public health work in the San Francisco Bay Area. Future multidisciplinary longitudinal studies that identify protective processes and successful trajectories and rigorous evaluations of strength-based policies, programs, and protective processes are needed.

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Section: Phenomenological Variant Of Ecological Systems Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

Fostering Resilience Among Urban Youth Exposed to Violence

Jain

Cohen

2013

Health Educ Behav

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“…Evidence exists to make a case that the number of developmental assets in young people's lives (a measure of the developmental richness of a young person's total ecology) and clusters of assets (often operating in specific contexts for specific outcomes of interest for particular young people) promote healthy behavior (Scales, Benson, Leffert, & Blyth, 2000), prevent unhealthy behavior Taylor et al, 2002), and help us better understand patterns of risk and thriving among adolescents (Benson et al, 1999).…”

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Youth Development, Developmental Assets, and Public Policy

Benson

Mannes

Pittman

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Handbook of Adolescent Psychology

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“…Each of these seven tensions was a problem children resolved by maximizing the utility of all the resources available to them in social and physical ecologies where there were serious threats to their well-being. In this way, behaviors that might be maladaptive in resource rich environments (such as violence) might serve protective functions in environments where the child's development was in danger (gang violence may, in some contexts, protect children from further abuse-see Taylor et al, 2002). Through detailed narratives collected in eleven countries, Ungar et al (2007) showed that involvement with street youth can secure supportive relationships; life in an orphanage can provide a child with a parentified identity as caregiver in the absence of the child's own caregiver; dropping out of school can buffer threats to one's self-concept when school has failed to make a child feel competent; and becoming an entrepreneur can provide a teenage mother access to financial independence better than education in contexts where education is expensive or there is a gender bias against girls' participation.…”

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Children's labour as a risky pathways to resilience: children's growth in contexts of poor resources

Libório

Ungar

2010

Psicol. Reflex. Crit.

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In this paper we explore children's labor as a complex phenomenon encompassing risk factors on one hand and possible positive outcomes on the other. Based on the theory of resilience and on literature review that details children's own experiences of work, we show that children who are inserted in environments which are poor in social and physical resources may report labor as pathways to ensure their own resources to overcome adversity. Understanding children's subjective accounts of their experience permits us to see children's labor as a culturally-embedded construction. Though exploitation of children is not in the best interest of children, there is evidence that children use whatever opportunities are available, including labor, to search for the resources they need and negotiate for an identity as resilient. Implications for public policies and practices are discussed. Keywords: Children and Adolescents; Labor; Resilience ResumoNesse artigo, analisamos a questão do trabalho infantil como um fenômeno complexo, englobando fatores de risco por um lado e possíveis resultados positivos por outro. Baseados na teoria da resiliência e a partir de uma revisão de literatura, centrada em pesquisas que analisam a própria experiência de crianças sobre o trabalho desenvolvido, mostramos que quando inseridos em ecologias socialmente e fisicamente pobres em recursos, crianças associam sua experiência de trabalho como um caminho para assegurar recursos próprios para superação de adversidades. A compreensão de aspectos subjetivos da experiência de crianças trabalhadores nos permite considerar o trabalho como uma construção culturalmente embasada. Apesar da exploração de crianças não se configurar como o melhor para elas, há evidências de que elas usam quaisquer oportunidades disponíveis, incluindo o trabalho, para navegar em busca de recursos que necessitam e negociam por uma identidade associada à resiliência. Implicações para políticas públicas e intervenções também são discutidas.

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Individual and ecological assets and positive developmental trajectories among gang and community‐based organization youth

Cited by 26 publications

References 14 publications

Fostering Resilience Among Urban Youth Exposed to Violence

Fostering Resilience Among Urban Youth Exposed to Violence

Youth Development, Developmental Assets, and Public Policy

Children's labour as a risky pathways to resilience: children's growth in contexts of poor resources

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