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Within the article, "Redefining the Notion of Youth" by Steinburg , stereotypes about young people are identified and exampled. The first example, the article mentions how "kids are bad, kids are sneaky, kids raise hell, kids are not capable of making good decisions." Secondly, when the article mentions leadership by teens, they describe that adults reduced their leadership strategy into two categories, the "preppies" or "Paul Petersoneque kids" category compared to the "hoods" category. Lastly, the article goes over, how adults have a continuous discussion about what kids are doing wrong rather than their strengths/ trying to understand their differing perspectives. There are many beliefs about youth that these mentioned stereotypes get there basis from. Some of these beliefs include the overall fear of youth and the underlying inability to embrace new ways of living. As you can tell these unwavering negative beliefs towards youth can...
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Youth Development Guide Knew: I have heard of youth programs that specifically target youth to fix or solve a specific problem. For instance, the Dare program was designed to help youth stay away from drugs and alcohol. In turn, this target-based approach actually caused a spike in usage rather than a decline. Learned: I found the diagram representing "traditional views in youth services" which combined low risk to high-risk services to low risk/high-risk communities to be very interesting. As the community got a higher risk, in turn, higher risk services were receiving much different supports. Overall it was interesting to see the comparison and how the services changed due to their environments. More:      This article states that "deficit programs failed for two major reasons, by narrowly focusing on changing specific behaviors, this approach failed to address young people's basic developmental needs."      I wonder if this is the case of all deficit pro...
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