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Dyck, Murray J. – Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 1991
Conducted three studies to examine independent feasibility of two explanations for why individuals consider suicide (presence of negative expectancies and absence of positive reasons for living). Results from both clinical and nonclinical samples consistently indicated distinct nomological nets for measures of "hopelessness" and…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Foreign Countries, Negative Attitudes, Suicide
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Abbott-Chapman, Joan; Denholm, Carey; Wyld, Colin – Youth & Society, 2008
Research investigating patterns of intergenerational risk taking has produced evidence of increased risk taking of female adolescents compared with their mother's generation and a reduction in the traditional gap between levels of teenage male and female risk taking. The research is part of a larger, multistage project on factors affecting…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Foreign Countries, Gender Differences, Risk
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Abbott-Chapman, Joan; Denholm, Carey; Wyld, Colin – Journal of Youth Studies, 2008
A large-scale study conducted in Tasmania, Australia, of teenage risk-taking across 26 potentially harmful risk activities has examined a range of factors that encourage or inhibit risk-taking. Among these factors, the degree of social and professional support the teenage students say they would access for personal, study or health problems has…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Foreign Countries, Profiles, Comparative Analysis
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Mishara, Brian L.; Weisstub, David N. – Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 2007
The promotion of suicide and description of suicide methods on the Internet have led to widespread concern that legal control is mandated. Apart from value concerns pertaining to attitudes about suicide, the guarantee of freedom of expression presents a serious challenge to the introduction of restrictive laws. Recent developments in Australia and…
Descriptors: Prevention, Suicide, Foreign Countries, Internet
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Khawaja, Nigar G.; Duncanson, Krystle – Australian Journal of Guidance and Counselling, 2008
Depression is a problem in the student population and may impact students of any age, gender and ethnicity. Previous studies have indicated student demographic characteristics are associated with depression; however, these studies have not utilised scales specifically designed to measure depression in the student population. The aim of the present…
Descriptors: Depression (Psychology), Measures (Individuals), College Students, Gender Differences
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Lemmon, Alistair – Youth Studies Australia, 2008
Twenty young people with a history of incarceration, substance abuse and disconnection provided Whitelion with insight into "what worked" in changing their at-risk behaviours. The answer was obvious--state support beyond 18 years of age, perhaps until the mid-twenties. These young people require specialised intervention, and help…
Descriptors: Substance Abuse, State Aid, Job Training, Young Adults
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Coram, Stella – Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 2007
The athlete role model has emerged as the new pastor invested with the task of leading young people classed "at-risk" from entering into self-destructive pathways. The logic invested in the athlete role model is that young people identify with their sporting heroes and in the process try to emulate them. This holds for the major sporting…
Descriptors: Role Models, Athletes, Young Adults, Foreign Countries
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Powell, Anastasia – Youth Studies Australia, 2007
In Australia, there is a growing expectation that sexuality education should reduce the risks associated with youth sex by providing young people with information on protecting their sexual health. However, this information may be insufficient to ensure that young people make choices that support their sexual safety and autonomy. This paper…
Descriptors: Prevention, Focus Groups, Young Adults, Foreign Countries
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Jobling, Anne; Cuskelly, Monica – Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, 2006
Background: Adults with intellectual disability have a range of significant health problems. If they are to live independently, they need to engage in behaviours that are health promoting, as well as avoiding behaviours that might directly lead to ill health. There is very little research about health-related knowledge and behaviour in this group.…
Descriptors: Down Syndrome, Hygiene, Foreign Countries, Adolescents
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Carter, Gregory Leigh; Clover, Kerrie Ann; Bryant, Jennifer Lynn; Whyte, Ian MacGregor – Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 2002
Tests the ability of the Edinburgh Risk of Repetition Scale (ERRS) to identify patients at high risk for repeat deliberate self-poisoning (DSP). A statistically significant relationship between ERRS scores and repetition was observed; however, sensitivity and specificity were low. The ERRS had limited value in identifying patients at high risk of…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Foreign Countries, Measures (Individuals), Predictive Measurement
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Kelly, Peter – Journal of Adolescence, 2000
Explores the possibilities provoked by the construction of the category of "youth-at-risk." Argues that discourses which attempt to regulate the behaviors and dispositions of youth provoke dangerous possibilities for the increased surveillance of, and intervention into, young people's lives by regulatory authorities. (Contains 67…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Foreign Countries, Intervention, Social Attitudes
Muir, Kristy; Mullan, Killian; Powell, Abigail; Flaxman, Saul; Thompson, Denise; Griffiths, Megan – Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations, 2009
This report presents a comprehensive picture of how young Australians are faring by bringing together data from a variety of sources and drawing on the comments of young people themselves. Overall the report presents a positive picture, showing how important young people are to this country and why it makes good economic and social sense for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, At Risk Persons, Disabilities, Socioeconomic Status
Perry, Bob; Howard, Peter – 2002
"Counting On" is a systemic mathematics program that targets low achieving students in the final year of government elementary and the first year of government secondary schools through the professional development of their teachers. During 2000, "Counting On" was implemented in 40 secondary schools, involving more than 600…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, At Risk Persons, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Thomson, Pat – 1999
This paper explores how "equity" and "risk" can call into question the ecology of a school. It suggests that failing to follow a holistic approach to a school problem can produce solutions that fail the students the effort was intended to assist. Examining schooling as a process of social production and reproduction leads to…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Delivery Systems, Disadvantaged Youth, Equal Education
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Mond, J. M.; Marks, P.; Hay, P. J.; Rodgers, B.; Kelly, C.; Owen, C.; Paxton, S. J. – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2007
This research examined the "mental health literacy" of adolescents concerning eating-disordered behavior. A vignette describing a fictional 16-year old female meeting diagnostic criteria for bulimia nervosa was presented to 522 female high school students, followed by a series of questions concerning treatment of and treatment-seeking…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Environment, Prevention, Females
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