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Direct linkSmith, Chauncey D.; Smith Lee, Jocelyn R. – Applied Developmental Science, 2020
This commentary engages the three elements of a social justice framework in the study of African American Boys and Men's (AABM) positive development, proposed by Barbarin, Tolan, and Gaylord-Harden (2019). In agreement with the importance of and in support of employing a social justice framework in developmental science, we offer theoretical and…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Humanism, African Americans, Males
Dodge, Kenneth A.; Albert, Dustin – Developmental Psychology, 2012
Ellis et al. (2012) bring an evolutionary perspective to bear on adolescent risky behavioral development, clinical practice, and public policy. The authors offer important insights that (a) some risky behaviors may be adaptive for the individual and the species by being hard-wired due to fitness benefits and (b) interventions might be more…
Descriptors: Psychopathology, Adolescents, Behavior Standards, Public Policy
Sunstein, Cass R. – Developmental Review, 2008
Adolescent risk-taking can be illuminated through an understanding of the development of the brain, of dual-processing theories, and of social norms and meanings. When adolescents take unjustified risks, it is often because of the weakness of their analytic systems, which provide an inadequate check on impulsive or ill-considered decisions. Social…
Descriptors: Risk, Student Behavior, Predictor Variables, Brain
Download full textButler, Edward R. – 1990
In many ways young people appear to be using and abusing alcohol as a ritual in their "rites of passage" to adulthood, perhaps as a symbolic means to demonstrate their "adultness." Anthropologists have documented the importance of rites of passage rituals for marking the successful passage from one position in a social…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescents, Alcohol Abuse
Gallimore, Ronald; And Others – 1992
This paper presents a series of propositions concerning processes that are at work in mentoring relationships, with each proposition accompanied by a brief discussion of the theory and research on which it is based. Examples are provided of the role of mentoring in the development of creative individuals. The propositions cover the following…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Apprenticeships, Behavior Standards
Ianni, Francis A. J. – 1990
This paper explores and highlights the importance of social, cultural, and behavioral contexts in the effectiveness of mentoring relationships. A first section looks at growing up in American and the varieties of personal and social development that are found. This section argues against viewing adolescents as similar across the boundaries of…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, At Risk Persons, Behavior Standards
