The role of positive youth development practices in building resilience and enhancing wellbeing for at-risk youth

Sanders, Jackie; Munford, Robyn; Thimasarn‐Anwar, Tewaporn; Liebenberg, Linda; Ungar, Michael

doi:10.1016/j.chiabu.2015.02.006

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“…The most important criteria documented for all (mainstream) adult clients are (1) professional competence, and (2) communication and empathy in the patient/health professional relationship [16]. Satisfaction with service provision can improve youth resilience and wellbeing, and behaviours such as engagement and participation in school and community [18,19]. However, there is evidence that Indigenous people perceive many services to be culturally unsafe and inappropriately adapted to respond to Indigenous needs [20,21].…”

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Integrating Healthcare Services for Indigenous Australian Students at Boarding Schools: A Mixed-Methods Sequential Explanatory Study

McCalman

Langham

Benveniste

et al. 2020

International Journal of Integrated Care

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Introduction: Many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australian adolescents from remote communities attend boarding schools, requiring integrated healthcare between home and schools. This study explored students' health status, healthcare service use and satisfaction. Methodology: A two-phased mixed-methods explanatory design was implemented. 32 Indigenous primary and 188 secondary boarding school students were asked their health status, psychological distress, use of healthcare services in community and boarding school, and service satisfaction. Results were fed back to students, parents and community members, and education and healthcare staff to elicit further explanation and interpretation. Results: In the previous year, 75% of primary and 81% of secondary boarding school students had visited a doctor. More than 90% were satisfied with healthcare services used. Despite 27.1% reporting high psychological distress, students did not perceive distress as reducing their overall health, nor was distress associated with mental healthcare service use. Discussion: Despite high levels of service use and satisfaction, this study highlighted the need for improved healthcare integration for Indigenous adolescents between school-based and remote community services. Further research is needed to identify students' expectations and models for healthcare integration. Conclusion: With resourcing, schools could play a greater role in facilitating access to healthcare.

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Section: Research and Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

Integrating Healthcare Services for Indigenous Australian Students at Boarding Schools: A Mixed-Methods Sequential Explanatory Study

McCalman

Langham

Benveniste

et al. 2020

International Journal of Integrated Care

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“…Bowers et al (2010) described PYD as a practice framework that "emphasizes the strengths of adolescents and, as a consequence, enables youth to be seen as resources to be developed" (p. 721). PYD has been linked to higher levels of resilience and well-being in youth (Sanders, Munford, Thimasarn-Anwar, Liebenberg, & Ungar, 2015), particularly African American youth (Travis & Leech, 2013). Food Landscapes combined the congruent asset-building objectives and strengths-based approach of positive youth development with art-making, improving teens' perceptions of their value and belonging in their communities, and helping them to develop ethical behaviors and the skills to connect to resources in their communities (Hirzy, 2011).…”

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Food Landscapes: Cooking, Community Service and Art-Making with Teens

Agnelli

Cramer

Buffington

et al. 2016

Journal of Community Practice

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In this article, we describe Food Landscapes, an interdisciplinary program involving youth who live in an urban community identified as a food desert. Food Landscapes combined socially engaged art-making, cooking, community engagement, and community service to open dialogue with youth about food justice and equity, the meaning of community, and the formation of meaningful relationships between youth and community members who have disabilities. We describe the program and discuss the theory and model bases for the program and lessons learned during program implementation.

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“…This is unfortunate considering that active patient participation can improve mental health promotion and prevention, decrease health disparities, and improve access to information [6,13,14]. Youth who are engaged in the design of their personal or collective care show increased self-esteem and are less likely to be involved in risky behaviours [15,16] They also tend to show greater commitment to friends, family and community and civic competence and leadership [15][16][17][18]. Youth and family participation within health and social services is particularly critical in contexts of social under-representation and in intercultural contexts where the youths' culture is not the dominant culture within the service setting [19,20].…”

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On the move: Exploring health service providers’ perspectives about family participation in care in Nunavik, a qualitative study.

Fraser

Moulin

Gaulin

et al. 2020

Preprint

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BackgroundLiterature on participation in health and social services suggests that youth are difficult to engage within health and social services. Indigenous youth are less likely to access services or to actively participate in decision-making regarding their personal care. This article analyzes health and social service providers’ perspectives, experiences and expectations regarding the roles of a particular group of Indigenous youth, families and community in care settings in Nunavik, Quebec.MethodsA snowball sampling method was used to recruit participants. A total of 58 participants were interviewed including psychiatrists, general practitioners, nurses, social workers, school principals, teachers, student counsellors, representatives of local committees (education committee, health committee), and police officers. Of the 58 participants, 39 were non-Inuit and 19 were Inuit. The interviews focused on three broad themes: 1) participants’ current and past positions/roles; 2) participants’ perceptions of the clientele (youth and their families) they work with; and 3) participants’ understanding of collaborations taking place within and between services (who works with whom) and community. Applied thematic analyses were conducted. The model that we present allows us to describe health service provider expectations and experiences regarding patient and community participation. ResultsWe organize findings around three themes: I) The most commonly described interventions, II) different types of challenges to and within participation; and III) what successful participation can look like according to service providers. Participants speak of the challenges for families to go towards services as well as the challenges for services providers to go towards youth and families, including personal, organisational and historical factors. ConclusionWe adopt a critical lens to reflect on the key findings in order to tease out points of tension and paradoxes that might hinder the participation of youth and families. We then use a constructive lens to amalgamate and build on service providers’ descriptions of challenges and successes to identify promising approaches that seem to encourage participation of youth and families.

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The role of positive youth development practices in building resilience and enhancing wellbeing for at-risk youth

Cited by 154 publications

References 44 publications

Integrating Healthcare Services for Indigenous Australian Students at Boarding Schools: A Mixed-Methods Sequential Explanatory Study

Integrating Healthcare Services for Indigenous Australian Students at Boarding Schools: A Mixed-Methods Sequential Explanatory Study

Food Landscapes: Cooking, Community Service and Art-Making with Teens

On the move: Exploring health service providers’ perspectives about family participation in care in Nunavik, a qualitative study.

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