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- Challenges
and Opportunities in Children’s Mental Health: A
View from Families and Youth
- Research
FACTs and Findings: Bullying
Awareness of the negative effects and long-term
consequences of bullying on school-aged youth has
grown substantially in the past few years. Contrary
to common belief, bullying is not a ‘natural’ part
of growing up or a relatively harmless behavior
that helps build character. Research has shown that
bullying can have long-lasting harmful effects for
both the victim and the bully. In response, prevention
and intervention programs designed to reduce bullying
have proliferated, many of which have proven to
be quite successful. This fACT sheet will discuss
this pertinent topic.
- Research
FACTs and Findings: Self Esteem
Is adolescence a time of decreased self-esteem?
Many teens, their teachers, their parents, and others
think so, and many adults recall adolescence as
a time of increasingly heightened self-scrutiny
and greatly fluctuating self-esteem. But the answer
is not entirely clear, as self-esteem is a subjective
state, and therefore very hard to measure.
- Research
FACTs and Findings: Self Injury
The Youth Development framework focuses primarily
on understanding how to help young people thrive.
To do this, however, it is important to also understand
young peoples expressions of discomfort and malady.
Although not a new phenomenon, self-injuryis a practice
that hampers efforts to promote thriving and which
may reflect toxic conditions in the social environments
youth inhabit. Self-injury is the most common label
for behaviors in which a person deliberately harms
him or her body. Precisely what constitutes self-injury
is a matter of some debate, but it is most commonly
associated with intentional carving or cutting of
the skin and sub-dermal tissue, scratching, burning,
ripping or pulling skin or hair, bruising, or breaking
bones. Some researchers include excessive piercing
and tattooing. Recent films such as Thirteen and
Girl, Interrupted along with disclosures of self-injurious
behavior by well known people such as Johnny Depp
and Princess Diana have begun to draw attention
to this difficult to understand behavior. Since
there are signs that self-injury is becoming increasingly
prevalent, it is important to understand both the
practice of self-injury and the conditions that
contribute to the seemingly increasing popularity
of the behavior in the general youth population.
This fACT sheet is designed to briefly summarize
what is known.
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