Youth Studies Australia back issues from December 2001:
The research challenge.(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2001; ... The world has changed considerably in the three months since we produced our last issue of YSA. The number of major events unfolding in such a short space of time blurs them into almost a continuum -- New York, Afghanistan, Ansett, refugees, anthrax, election -- which will one day be ...
Attitudes & opinions. (Youth Monitor: a national roundup of recent press reports on youth issues).(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2001; ... Feeling good A Sydney Morning Herald survey of 165 school students in five metropolitan and regional areas of New South Wales found that 75% of them believed their lives were better than their parents' lives had been when the parents were teenagers. The students said that ...
Bullying and violence. (Youth Monitor: a national roundup of recent press reports on youth issues).(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2001; ... Long-term effects Research by a team from the Centre for Adolescent Health at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne has found that girls who are bullied as teenagers are more likely than boys to develop anxiety and depression. The study, which involved 2,680 Victorian ...
Child abuse and protection. (Youth Monitor: a national roundup of recent press reports on youth issues).(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2001; ... Adult weapons Using a stick, strap, belt or other implement to discipline children should be outlawed in Queensland, a leading child-development expert has urged. Professor Matt Sanders, a clinical psychologist, said `I would like to see a situation where the use of an object ...
Crime & justice. (Youth Monitor: a national roundup of recent press reports on youth issues).(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2001; ... WA detention rate Western Australia still detains young people at one of the highest rates in Australia and has the nation's worst over-representation of Aboriginal juveniles, according to the latest figures from Australian Institute of Criminology. Dr Adam Graycar, director of ...
Drugs. (Youth Monitor: a national roundup of recent press reports on youth issues).(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2001; ... Students show concern The recent Sydney Morning Herald survey of 165 high-school students [see above, `Attitudes & opinions'] found that many of the students were concerned about how to stop their friends being drawn into a destructive cycle of drug-taking. Paul Dillon, ...
Education. (Youth Monitor: a national roundup of recent press reports on youth issues).
Dec 01, 2001; ... A matter of vision Laptop computers for all students, schools that open 12 hours a day and seven days a week, and the abolition of old-fashioned assessments are among the recommendations in a report called New Learning: A Charter for Australian Education, released by the ...
Employment. (Youth Monitor: a national roundup of recent press reports on youth issues).(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2001; ... Graduate prospects A report issued by the National Centre for Vocational Education Research gave research results showing that graduates of TAFE and universities were likely to pick up a job within months of finishing their studies. Seventy-six per cent of graduates from TAFE ...
Gender issues. (Youth Monitor: a national roundup of recent press reports on youth issues).(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2001; ... Boys A new book about Australian boys shows them still trapped in stereotypical `masculine' attitudes. Boys' Stuff, edited by Wayne Martino and Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli, is based on more than 400 interviews with boys at schools across Australia. It presents a picture of today's ...
Health & safety. (Youth Monitor: a national roundup of recent press reports on youth issues).(Statistical Data Included)
Dec 01, 2001; ... High-school nursing At many schools, health care provides basic first aid but can't really go much further, and students have had to suffer complex health and personal problems unassisted at school. Recognising this, a new $16-million program in Victoria aims to ...
Incomes and expenditures. (Youth Monitor: a national roundup of recent press reports on youth issues).(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2001; ... Paying their way Paying their Way: A Survey of Australian Undergraduate University Student Finances, 2000 is a report on a study carried out by the Australian Council for Educational Research on behalf of the Australian Vice-Chancellors' Committee. The survey of almost 35,000 ...
Media. (Youth Monitor: a national roundup of recent press reports on youth issues).(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2001; ... Children's TV Several independent production companies have joined forces to fight the Australian Children's Television Foundation over its role as a program producer. The independent companies say that the foundation is depriving them of work and funding. The producers went ...
Participation. (Youth Monitor: a national roundup of recent press reports on youth issues).(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2001; ... Enterprise Promoting up-and-coming bands is often the domain of the street media and Triple J, but 18 hardworking Year 11 and 12 students in Canberra have produced a CD featuring five local groups, and it has nearly sold out in the city's record shops. The students produced the ...
Rural & isolated. (Youth Monitor: a national roundup of recent press reports on youth issues).(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2001; ... Growth on the land With farm incomes predicted to increase by up to 29% in the current financial year, partly because of strong productivity gains and major growth in exports, the unemployment rate in agriculture at 6% is lower than the general national rate. Yet it has been ...
Services & welfare. (Youth Monitor: a national roundup of recent press reports on youth issues).(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
Dec 01, 2001; ... Need for care Findings of the Western Australian Auditor-General, Des Pearson, show that the number of children and young people in state care in WA is increasing and that their needs are becoming greater and more complex. Mr Pearson has also found that the Department for ...
Sexuality. (Youth Monitor: a national roundup of recent press reports on youth issues).(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
Dec 01, 2001; ... Unsafe sex A survey conducted for Ansell, a condom manufacturer, found that 40% of sexually active young people are not practising safe ...
Sport & leisure. (Youth Monitor: a national roundup of recent press reports on youth issues).(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2001; ... Bad sports targeted In South Australia, an online program has been launched to help stamp out harassment and discrimination in sport. Among its targets are `the ugly parent', the backline bully and the overzealous amateur coach. A web site called Play by the Rules ...
Suicide. (Youth Monitor: a national roundup of recent press reports on youth issues).(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
Dec 01, 2001; ... Fighting depression Research released by the Australian Institute for Health and Welfare revealed that 122 children and young men aged between 10 and 19 committed suicide in 1998, while the figure for females across the same age range was 36. But the proportion of teenagers ...
Technology. (Youth Monitor: a national roundup of recent press reports on youth issues).(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2001; ... Changing the world According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, almost all Australian children aged 5-14 have now used computers. David Higgins, writing in The Sydney Morning Herald, said that when you combine instant global Communications with the teenage drive to form ...
Sex, drugs and drinking: health risks in the social lives of young workers. (Peer Reviewed).(Statistical Data Included)
Dec 01, 2001; ... A study of almost 400 young people (aged 15-25) in the manufacturing, building, hairdressing, fast food and retail industries in Melbourne found that excessive alcohol consumption and smoking are major health issues facing these young workers. In general, young men engaged in more alcohol ...
Factors associated with risk-taking behaviour in Western Sydney's young people. (Peer Reviewed).
Dec 01, 2001; ... A qualitative study of risk-taking behaviour among Western Sydney's young people identified factors that increase the likelihood of undesirable risk-taking, and provided strategies to curb these behaviours. The findings may assist in the provision of services for young people and will be ...
Providing services to homeless young people in Melbourne. (Peer Reviewed).(Statistical Data Included)
Dec 01, 2001; ... A survey of youth service providers in metropolitan Melbourne revealed a relatively stable, experienced and well-educated work force. Case management and counselling were the most commonly provided services to young people; however, respondents reported that housing, income support, ...
Are you old enough? Research ethics and young people. (Programs And Practice).
Dec 01, 2001; ... Various codes of ethics have been developed for research involving young people. However, Graeme Stuart suggests that these codes may need to be modified to include strategies concerning disclosure to maintain the integrity of young people's contribution to the research, and to respect ...
You're a peer what?! Clarifying the roles of peer supporters, educators and researchers for youth consultants. (Programs And Practice).
Dec 01, 2001; ... Youth consultants are increasingly being used in human services fields; however, their roles are often not clearly defined. Being a youth consultant may involve more than one specific task, so it is important to have clear role descriptions and borders for each role. Drawing on their ...
Sibling project: a project in South Australia is pioneering the provision of services for siblings of children with disabilities or chronic illness (special needs) -- a group whose needs are only beginning to be recognised in Australia. (Programs And Practice).
Dec 01, 2001; ... Not so long ago parents were advised to institutionalise a child with a disability for the sake of the family and, in particular, other siblings. Fortunately, that attitude has changed and children with disabilities are included not only in families but also the outside world. However, ...
Electronic information for the youth field. (Get It).(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2001; ... Boys in schools www.newcastle.edu.au/department/fac/boys The Boys in Schools Bulletin is issued by the Men and Boys Program based in the Family Action Centre at the University of Newcastle, NSW. The program's three strands are `Boyswork', working with schools and ...
Parenting adolescents quiz. (Kits And Resources).(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2001; ... Parenting Adolescents Quiz Centre for Adolescent Health. The Centre for Adolescent Health has recently developed a new resource for parent education -- the Parenting Adolescents Quiz (PAQ). The program is designed to identify family problems at a school community level and to ...
The Gurd Youth Alcohol and Drug Education Strategy. (Kits And Resources).
Dec 01, 2001; ... The Gurd Youth Alcohol and Drug Education Strategy Western Australia Police Service. The Gurd Youth Alcohol and Drug Education Strategy has three main objectives: to produce alcohol and other drug education resources and merchandise with a legal and social harm reduction focus; ...
Digging deep: A practical program to encourage young people to name, own and deal with their emotion. (Kits And Resources).
Dec 01, 2001; ... Digging Deep: A practical program to encourage young people to name, own and deal with their emotion J. Matthews, ACER Press, Activities Book ISBN 0864313985, 2001, RRP $140.00, 356pp., Teacher's Manual ISBN 0864313896, 2001, RRP $55.00, 67pp. In this new set of books aimed to ...
Negotiating the Maze: An Analysis of Employment Assistance for Young People. (Reports).
Dec 01, 2001; ... Negotiating the maze: An analysis of employment assistance for young people L. Dearn, Brotherhood of St Laurence, ISBN 1876250445, 2001, RRP $6.00, 53pp. This report is the culmination of the Creating Employment Pathways project, initiated in 1999 by the Brotherhood of St ...
Aggression and the Development of Delinquent Behaviour in Children. (Reports).
Dec 01, 2001; ... Aggression and the Development of Delinquent Behaviour in Children W. Bor et al., Trends and Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice No. 207, Australian Institute of Criminology, 2001, ISSN 0817-8542, ISBN 0642242321, 6p. This essay is yet another example of the high-quality, ...
A Meta-analysis of the Impact of Community-based Prevention and Early Intervention Action. (Reports).
Dec 01, 2001; ... A Meta-analysis of the Impact of Community-based Prevention and Early Intervention Action E. Gauntlett, R. Hugman, P. Kenyon & P. Logan, Department of Family and Community Services, 2001, ISSN 1442-7532, 113pp. This report, the eleventh in the Federal Department of Family and ...
National Youth Health Priorities. Adolescence: An opportunity for Health. Outcomes of the National Youth Health Summit held in Canberra on 26th July 2001. (Reports).(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2001; ... National Youth Health Priorities. Adolescence: An opportunity for Health. Outcomes of the National Youth Health Summit held in Canberra on 26th July 2001 AMA, 2001. As the comprehensive title of this document suggests, the participants at the National Youth Health Summit ...
A Question of Safeguards: Inquiry into the Care and Circumstances of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Children and Young People in Care. (Reports).
Dec 01, 2001; ... A Question of Safeguards: Inquiry into the care and circumstances of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander children and young people in care Community Services Commission, 2001, ISBN 0734762488, 85pp. The Community Services Commission, the independent State government watchdog ...
The Queensland Young People's Mental Health Survey. (Reports).
Dec 01, 2001; ... The Queensland Young People's Mental Health Survey Centre for Primary Health Care, School of Population Health & Department of Psychiatry, The University of Queensland, 2000, ISBN 1864993502, 84pp. Numerous mental health promotion and suicide prevention initiatives have been ...
Creating New Choices: A violence prevention project for schools in Australia. (Reports).
Dec 01, 2001; ... Creating New Choices: A violence prevention project for schools in Australia M. Sidey assisted by T. Lynch, International Bureau of Education, 2001, 51 pp. Creating New Choices is a violence prevention project that operates across a number of schools in the northern suburbs of ...
Megawords: 200 terms you really need to know. (Books).
Dec 01, 2001; ... Megawords: 200 terms you really need to know R. Osborne, Allen & Unwin, ISBN 1865080098, 2001, RRP $24.95, 258pp. For those of us whose education predated or otherwise omitted subjects like critical theory, postmodernism, poststructuralism and other seemingly impenetrable ...
Boys' Stuff -- Boys talking about what matters. (Books).
Dec 01, 2001; ... Boys' Stuff -- Boys talking about what matters W. Martino & M. Pallotta-Chiarolli, Allen & Unwin, ISBN 1865085553, 2001, RRP $24.95, 218pp. Boys' Stuff -- Boys talking about what matters by Wayne Martino and Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli, is a book that looks at the Australian ...
Streetwize publications review notes.(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2001; ... Streetwize magazines are a confronting source of information based around issues affecting youth. The latest publications are designed to appeal to young Australians. The manner in which the issues are presented is both informative and entertaining, with all the facts plus all the fiction ....
YACWA comes of age. (From The Peaks).(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2001 ... YACWA this year celebrated our 21st birthday of incorporation. The Annual General Meeting was held in the delightful surroundings of AQWA -- WA's aquarium on the ocean front at Hilary's. One hundred people were in attendance to celebrate, network, hear what we have been up to this past ...
The needs of children who witness domestic violence: a South Australian study. (Abuse).(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2001; ... The needs of children who witness domestic violence: a South Australian study D. Bagshaw & D. Chung, Children Australia, v.26, n.3, 2001, pp.9-17. To assess the needs of women, men and young people who had experienced domestic violence, an Adelaide research team conducted a ...
Listening to the child victim of abuse through the process of therapy: A case study. (Abuse).(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2001; ... Listening to the child victim of abuse through the process of therapy: A case study. N. Mudaly & C. Goddard, Children Australia, v. 26, n.3, 2001, pp. 18-22. The purpose of treatment for children who have been abused is to provide early intervention to reduce the potential ...
Adolescents' risk activities, risk hierarchies and the influence of religiosity. (At-risk youth).(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2001; ... Adolescents' risk activities, risk hierarchies and the influence of religiosity J. Abbott-Chapman & C. Denholm, Journal of Youth Studies, v.4, n.3, 2001, pp.279-97. A focus group and questionnaire survey of 954 Tasmanian Year 11 and 12 students identified 26 activities of ...
An ABC of mentors' talk about disaffected youth. (At-risk youth).(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2001; ... An ABC of mentors' talk about disaffected youth H. Colley, Youth and Policy, n.72, summer, 2001, pp.1-15. Many evaluation reports of mentoring emphasise mentors' empathy with young people's social and personal situations. However, there are no empirical studies in the UK that ...
A comparison of social development processes leading to violent behavior in late adolescence for childhood initiators and adolescent initiators of violence. (Bullying and violence).(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2001; ... A comparison of social development processes leading to violent behavior in late adolescence for childhood initiators and adolescent initiators of violence T.I. Herrenkohl, B. Huang, R. Kosterman, J.D. Hawkins et al., The Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, v.38, n.1, 2001, ...
Occupational aspirations of sixth-grade children. (Careers/transition).(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2001; ... Occupational aspirations of sixth-grade children M. McMahon, J. Carroll & R.M. Gillies, Australian Journal of Career Development, v.10, n.1, 2001, pp.25-31. The question of how early career education can usefully be introduced into schools is examined in this study of ...
Career information, guidance and counselling services: Policy perspectives. (Careers/transition).(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2001; ... Career information, guidance and counselling services: Policy perspectives R. Sweet, Australian Journal of Career Development, v.10, n.2, 2001, pp.11-14. A recent initiative of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) is focusing on policy issues involved ...
Senior students' views on career information: What was the most useful and what would they like? (Careers/transition).(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2001; ... Senior students' views on career information: What was the most useful and what would they like? W. Patton & A. McCrindle, Australian Journal of Career Development, v.10, n.1, 2001, pp.32-35. The important role played by school-based career counsellors was highlighted in this ...
Youth graffiti as an existential coping device: The case of Rabin's assassination. (Culture).(Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin)(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2001; ... Youth graffiti as an existential coping device: The case of Rabin's assassination D. Luzzatto & Y. Jacobson, Journal of Youth Studies, v.4, n.3., 2001, pp.351-65. Research carried out for 16 months following the assassination of the Israeli Prime Minister, Yitzhak Rabin, in 1995 ...
Whatever happened to the Jock, the Brain, and the Princess? Young adult pathways linked to adolescent activity involvement and social identity. (Development).
Dec 01, 2001; ... Whatever happened to the Jock, the Brain, and the Princess? Young adult pathways linked to adolescent activity involvement and social identity B.L. Barber, J. S. Eccles & M.R. Stone, Journal of Adolescent Research, v.16, n.5, 2001, pp.429-55. The long-term risk and adjustment ...
Working with families to promote healthy adolescent development. (Families).(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2001; ... Working with families to promote healthy adolescent development J.W. Toumbourou & M.E. Gregg, Family Matters, n.59, winter, 2001, pp.54-60. Adolescence has until recently been perceived as `too late' for family intervention; however, evidence suggests that intervention through ...
Adolescents' bereavement experiences. Prevalence, association with depressive symptoms, and use of services. (Mental health).
Dec 01, 2001; ... Adolescents' bereavement experiences. Prevalence, association with depressive symptoms, and use of services L. Harrison & R. Harrington, Journal of Adolescence, v.24, n.2, 2001, pp.159-69. Most studies of bereaved young people have focused on selected samples of young people who ...
Comparing adolescents' considerations for self-referral and counsellors' perceptions of these considerations: An exploratory study. (Mental Health).(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
Dec 01, 2001; ... Comparing adolescents' considerations for self-referral and counsellors' perceptions of these considerations: An exploratory study M. Tatar, Journal of Adolescence, v.24, n.2, 2001, pp.171-81. Counsellors' and adolescents' perceptions of adolescents' considerations for ...
A model for the access and engagement of young people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. (Multiculturalism).(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2001; ... A model for the access and engagement of young people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds L. Beasley & V. D'Souza, Synergy, winter, 2001, pp.15-18. A survey of the cultural and language backgrounds of 406 young people undertaken by the High Street Youth Health ...
The strategic use of sports and fitness activities for promoting psychosocial skill development in childhood and adolescence. (Sport, leisure).(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2001; ... The strategic use of sports and fitness activities for promoting psychosocial skill development in childhood and adolescence J. Gavin & S. Lister, Journal of Child and Youth Care Work, v.16, 2001, pp.325-43. Different sports or activities may influence different kinds of ...
Techniques for negotiating workplace `reform' in Australia: An ethnography of the youth and community sector. (Youth services).(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2001; ... Techniques for negotiating workplace `reform' in Australia: An ethnography of the youth and community sector R. Webber & J. Bessant, Youth and Policy, n.72, summer 2001, pp.35-49. In the last decade, the youth and community sector has experienced rapid change as policies driven ...
A configural analysis of burnout in child and youth care workers in thirteen cultures. (Youth work).(Statistical Data Included)
Dec 01, 2001; ... A configural analysis of burnout in child and youth care workers in thirteen cultures V. Savicki, Journal of Child and Youth Care Work, v.15, 2001, pp.185-206. Child and youth care workers suffering from burnout can be expected to experience a general loss of well-being, ...