Vol 19, No 1 (2010)
Moving beyond coercive approaches to behavior management, this issue explores promising approaches for involving youth in positive behavioral change. Strategies include supportive interventions that build strengths and emotional intelligence, motivate achievement, turn problems into learning opportunities, and develop respectful cultures in schools and youth organizations.
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Culture and Development
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"Peer Pressure" and the Group Process: Building Cultures of Concern
Thomas F. Tate, Randall L. Copas
Peer group treatment has been subject to two main lines of criticism. Some suggest any program which aggregates antisocial youth inevitably fosters negative peer influence. Others are concerned that certain peer programs are based on coercive peer confrontation. Positive Peer Culture [PPC] is an antidote to both of these varieties of toxic group cultures. The authors draw on group research, extensive clinical practice, and a strength-based value perspective to describe the specific process of developing positive group cultures.
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Addressing the Challenge of Disenfranchisement of Youth
Carolyn Hughes, Reginald Newkirk, Pamela H. Stenhjem
Understanding the role that poverty and racism play in the educational and socioeconomic barriers that confront racially and ethnically diverse youth is critical to affecting positive change with youth. Teaching principles, solutions, and basic concepts to make education a viable, life-giving experience for young people of color are discussed.
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Flexible as a Dancer, More Resilient Because of It
Martin Mitchell, Dana Jacob
When asked once during an interview what her best quality is, Victoria Rowell simply responded with one word: Resilience.
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Motivating Urban Youth
Richard L. Curwin
A roadmap for success with urban youth builds a sense of hope in both the adult and the young person.
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Educational Innovations
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The Behavior intervention Support Team (BIST) Program
Walter T. Boulden
BIST is a proactive school-wide behavior management plan for all students, emphasizing schools partnering with students and parents through caring relationships and high expectations. The BIST program is well-grounded in behavioral theory and combines strength-based and resiliency principles within the context of the ecological, person-in-environment model.
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What Tough Kids Need from Us
Allen Mendler, Brian Mendler
Discipline with dignity involves specific respectful strategies to connect with youth and to guide their behavior.
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Developing Emotional Literacy
Leonard Fleischer
Traditional transition planning focuses on skills for independent living and self support. Research on social and emotional learning suggests the needs to build the capacity in youth for Belonging, Mastery, Independence, and Generosity.
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Treatment and Family
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Behavior Management and Behavioral Change: How Can We Tell Them Apart?
Edna Olive
Understanding the differences between behavior management and behavior change helps adults identify the differences between the two and teaches them what they can do to be effective in the use of both. Positive Behavior Facilitation Tool #3 (Olive, 2007).
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Shifting Gears: From Coercion to Respect in Residential Care
Leslie T. Dunn
A curriculum for building social, emotional, and moral competence transformed the staff and youth culture. Staff responded to the youth with respect and empathy and young people gained in responsibility and self-worth.
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King of Cool
Mark Freado, Steve Van Bockern
Many teenagers get involved in criminal activity. This tendency is so pervasive that psychologist Terrie Moffitt, one of the world’s leading experts on the development of antisocial behavior, has described delinquent behavior as a normal part of teenager life (Scott & Steinberg, 2008). Adults, even those in the justice system, are often at a loss of what to do when these “tendencies” find their way into the justice system. Most do not like the idea of adult prison time for adolescents yet many are left wondering what to do when all other options fail.
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Kids Who Carry In Problems from Home
Ramsey Binnington, Mitchell Beck
Stressful events in the home or community often spill over into the school.
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Teens Who Intimidate Adults: Understanding Symptom Estrangement
Gerrit De Moor
This story gives a brief overview of the possibilities and opportunities of the Symptom Estrangement Reclaiming Intervention. It is the history of a three-year effort with a child caught in this self-defeating pattern of behaviour.
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Voices of Youth
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How to Fix an Az-Burger
Jonathan J. Smith
I began this project on my 17th birthday as an article dedicated to helping kids with autism, and in a more specific category, Asperger’s Syndrome. These are my thoughts and insights on how I perceive the world around me. I hope sharing my experiences and perceptions may help teachers and other specialists in their work with children with Asperger’s Syndrome.
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