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Positive Youth Development: Levels of Positivity in Youth Development

open access: yesAsian Journal of Agricultural Extension, Economics & Sociology, 2022
Positive youth development is a combination of Positive Episodes + Positive Associations + Positive circumstances. Youth development expert Richard Lerner theorizes that young people will thrive if they develop certain behaviours, dubbed the “five Cs,” over the course of childhood and early adolescence: competence, connection, character, confidence ...
Haritha, Y. D, Bilquis, .
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The role of youth engagement in positive youth development and social justice youth development for high-risk, marginalised youth

open access: yesInternational Journal of Adolescence and Youth, 2015
This article describes reflective experiences documented by our youth leaders and community agency partners (n = 7 & 12, respectively) who have involved in our multi-year community-based research project. Overall, meaningful youth engagement facilitated by youth leadership was highlighted as a key mechanism for positive youth development (PYD) and ...
Y. Iwasaki
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Using human-centered design to co-design dedicated menstrual health spaces with people who menstruate in Bidi Bidi refugee settlement, Uganda: Learnings for further adaptation and scale in humanitarian settings

open access: yesBMC Women's Health, 2023
Background Many people who menstruate in low- and middle-income countries struggle to manage their menstruation safely, hygienically, and with dignity.
Aly Beeman   +9 more
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Mental well-being during the first months of Covid-19 in adults and children: behavioral evidence and neural precursors

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2021
Pandemics such as the Covid-19 pandemic have shown to impact our physical and mental well-being, with particular challenges for children and families. We describe data from 43 adults (31♀, ages = 22–51; 21 mothers) and 26 children (10♀, ages = 7–17 years)
Réka Borbás   +6 more
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Substance use in sexual minority youth: prevalence in an urban cohort

open access: yesChild and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health, 2023
Background Little comparative data on substance use (SU) between sexual minority youth (SMY) and heterosexual youth (HET) is available. This study compares the prevalence of SU in an urban cohort between SMY and HET and evaluates demographic and ...
Florian Vock   +9 more
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Educational Concerns, Health Concerns and Mental Health During Early COVID-19 School Closures: The Role of Perceived Support by Teachers, Family, and Friends

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2022
This study investigated whether school closures and health-related uncertainties in the early phases of the COVID-19 pandemic posed risk factors for adolescents’ mental health and whether perceived social support by parents, teachers, and friends ...
Lena Dändliker   +6 more
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An integrative approach for the analysis of risk and health across the life course: challenges, innovations, and opportunities for life course research

open access: yesDiscover Social Science and Health, 2023
Life course epidemiology seeks to understand the intricate relationships between risk factors and health outcomes across different stages of life to inform prevention and intervention strategies to optimize health throughout the lifespan. However, extant
Sascha Zuber   +16 more
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Youth Development in Albania [PDF]

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Social Sciences Education and Research, 2014
Young generations are those who make lives livelier and happier, who design the future and make the change, the ones with full hope and enthusiasm to go further and make the impossible possible. As every country of Europe, Asia or America, Albania as well is surrounded by a very fruitful young ladies and gentlemen's.
Armanda Keqi   +2 more
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