Project: Month of the Young Adolescent
By
Betty Norris
Amanda DeJarnette
Tina Britton
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The Mind of the Adolescent
Just Hanging Out
At Risk- Taking Risks
Emotional Outreach
Self-Concept
Growing and Changing
Helpful Links
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Support for adolescents
Protective Factors
Parental Monitoring
Describes
steps
parents can take to protect their teens from risky behaviors.
Protective Factors
School Connectedness
School connectedness—the belief held by students that adults and peers in the school care about their
learning
as well as about them as individuals—is an important protective factor.
School Connectedness: Strategies for Increasing Protective Factors Among Youth [pdf1.7M]
Strategies that teachers, administrators, other school staff, and parents can implement to increase the extent to which students feel connected to school.
Parental Monitoring
Describes
steps
parents can take to protect their teens from risky behaviors.
Monitoring Your Teen’s Activities: What Parents and Families Should Know [pdf 449K]
More
Parent Engagement: Strategies for Involving Parents in School Health
[pdf 1.1M]
Describes strategies and actions
schools
can take to increase parent engagement in promoting positive health behaviors among students
A web-site for parents to help you understand your
teenager:
http://www.5min.co
m/Video/How-Can-Parents-Help-Their-Children-Navigate-Adolescence-517128345
Erik Erickson's (1956) 8 Stages of Emotional Development
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGFKAfixHJs&feature=player_detailpage
Read more:
http://www.umm.edu/ency/article/002003.htm#ixzz1szX8iw48
Precocious puberty: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0002152/
Read more:
http://www.umm.edu/ency/article/002003.htm#ixzz1szX8iw48
Read more:
http://www.umm.edu/ency/article/002003.htm#ixzz1szX8iw48
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Featured Links
Puberty
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn4X60d9ov8&feature=player_detailpage
Body Image
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wbRTYTvP0I&feature=player_detailpage
Anorexia and Bulimia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzHogdHxPDo&feature=player_detailpage