Modeling the Payoffs of Interventions to Reduce Adolescent Vulnerability  

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Burt, Martha R. ; Zweig, Janine M. ; Roman, John

Jenis: Article from Books - E-Book
Dalam koleksi: Adolescent Risk and Vulnerability: Concepts and Measurement, page 73-108.
Topik: Payoffs of Interventions; Adolescent Vulnerability
Fulltext: Adolescent (4).pdf (667.78KB)

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Public policy often has been blind to adolescents, except when it has focused on aspects of their behavior that trouble their elders. Too often, policy makers limit their attention to artificially narrow and isolated aspects of youth behavior. They consider only health, or only criminal, or only educational issues. In addition, the payoff of youth vulnerability and our failure to ameliorate it are rarely addressed. The few existing treatments of the cost of adolescent risk behaviors have likewise focused on single behaviors (e.g., teen childbearing—Burt, 1985, 1986; Burt and Levy, 1987) or narrowly defined patterns (e.g., being a career criminal—Cohen, 1998). A just-released report identifying important future research issues related to youth (Millstein et al., 2000) does not even mention cost, either as the cost of outcomes to society or the cost of interventions or approaches to produce better outcomes. The absence of cost concerns is even more striking as Millstein and her colleagues review and summarize a decade of published documents that in their turn summarize and integrate research on adolescence and make recommendations for future research.

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