Youth Studies Australia articles from December 2002

Youth Studies Australia archives from December 2002

Covering the lot!
December 1, 2002... The limit of five to seven articles we have room for in each issue means there's a lot going on out there that we can't cover in the lengthy articles and the lead-up time needed to develop them. I am therefore grateful for the super job our...

Attitudes & opinions. (Youth Monitor).(racial tolerance)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Racial tolerance A survey of nearly 800 young people aged between 11 and 22 found that nine in 10 of the younger children were racially tolerant, but that this tolerance diminished with age. Boys aged 14-16 were found to be the most...

Bullying & violence. (Youth Monitor).
December 1, 2002... Bullying persists The preliminary findings of a not-yet-completed study of 4,500 students in western Sydney suggest that Australia's education systems, like others across the world, are failing to counter bullying. Roberto Parada, a...

Child abuse & protection. (Youth Monitor).
December 1, 2002... Federal protection service recommended In a major report called Family Law and Child Protection released by the federal Attorney-General Daryl Williams, the Family Law Council has recommended sweeping changes, including the establishment of...

Crime & justice. (Youth Monitor).
December 1, 2002... Schools vs crime A study of long-term unemployment rates and levels of property crime in New South Wales suggests that finding work for young jobless men would reduce crime by 8%, but that helping them to finish Year 12 could cut property...

Demographics. (Youth Monitor).
December 1, 2002... Losing the young Addressing a conference of the Australian Population Association, Dr Natalie Jackson, senior lecturer in sociology at the University of Tasmania, said the aging of Australia's population will open wide disparities between...

Disability. (Youth Monitor).
December 1, 2002... Growing numbers In Victoria over the past seven years, there has been a significant increase in the number of children with behavioural and learning problems and who meet the criteria for disability funding. The Association of Independent...

Drugs. (Youth Monitor).
December 1, 2002... Under-age drinking The findings of a new Alcohol Awareness Survey, conducted by Roy Morgan Research and released by the Salvation Army, confirm that teenage drinkers are starting younger and drinking more. By the age of 14, 63% of young...

Education. (Youth Monitor).
December 1, 2002... Swamped principals According to a survey report from the Victorian Primary Principals Association, primary schools across Victoria are struggling to cope with students' increasingly complex welfare needs, and principals are frustrated by a...

Employment. (Youth Monitor).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... New Dusseldorp report The Dusseldorp Skills Forum, a training and research organisation, has published a new report, `How Young People Are Faring: Key Indicators 2002'. It reveals that 211,000 young people, or 15.4% of Australian...

Families. (Youth Monitor).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Growing up In an interview with Kristen Watts, Dr Michael Carr-Gregg, a psychologist specialising in studies of adolescence, said adolescence in Australia has changed in recent years. He said young people now enter puberty earlier and...

Gender issues. (Youth Monitor).
December 1, 2002... Boys: Getting it Right One of the most striking facts in a Commonwealth parliamentary report called Boys: Getting it Right is that in NSW the difference between aggregate Tertiary Entrance Scores for boys and girls widened from 0.6% in...

Health & safety. (Youth Monitor).
December 1, 2002... Teenage smoking and breast cancer A report published in The Lancet described a link between teenage girls' smoking and their risk of developing breast cancer. Researchers at the British Columbia Cancer Agency in Vancouver found that in...

Housing & homelessness. (Youth Monitor).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... CRASH program An innovative scheme to use temporarily vacant warehouses and office buildings as housing for small groups of young homeless people has been launched in Sydney. Called CRASH (Construction Industry Relief and Assistance for...

Incomes & expenditures. (Youth Monitor).(youth employment services)
December 1, 2002... Exploited trainees In Victoria, the community legal service Job Watch released a study of young apprentices and trainees who have asked for advice from the service. Job Watch found a growing incidence of employers using apprenticeship...

Rural & isolated. (Youth Monitor).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Social disjunctions Resentments are evident between some children of the rural working poor and newcomers to country areas who are children of the welfare poor, according to an educational sociologist, Professor Jane Kenway, speaking in...

Services & welfare. (Youth Monitor).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Car workshops Hand Brake Turn (HBT) is a vocational-training and crime-prevention program that is producing good results in Sydney's west. Aimed at young people between 15 and 19, HBT is a nationally accredited 10-week course set in an...

Sexuality. (Youth Monitor).(teenage pregnancy)
December 1, 2002... `Morning after' pill According to figures published in the Sunday Herald Sun, one in five teenage girls in Australia will become pregnant between the ages of 15 and 19, and one in 10 will give birth. The professor of sexual health at the...

Technology. (Youth Monitor).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Music guide online Young musicians interested in a career in music can now get advice from the industry's major players via the web. The Victorian state government has launched a site at www.freeza.vic.gov, a u which features tips from...

Socioeconomic status & youth aggression in Australia. (Peer Reviewed Paper).
December 1, 2002... It is perhaps surprising, given the widespread concern about youth violence, that there has been little or no research into the effect of socioeconomic status on youth aggression. In the process of addressing this gap in the research, this...

Pros and cons of early intervention: early intervention models, professional practice and workplace environments. (Peer Reviewed Paper).
December 1, 2002... Multifactoral explanations of human behaviour now predominate in the human services areas. Rob White describes, evaluates and critiques the implications of this approach before considering the impact of implementing community-based intervention...

The second national census of homeless school students. (Peer Reviewed Paper).
December 1, 2002... In August 2001, David MacKenzie and Chris Chamberlain conducted the second national census of homeless school students in Australia. In this paper they present the main findings of the census and outline their core policy argument that schools...

Young Australian women: circumstances and aspirations. (Peer Reviewed Paper).
December 1, 2002... In this summary of an invited address to the inaugural Australian Women Speak conference, Anita Harris provides an overview of research that has been undertaken into Australian young women as a diverse but separate demographic category. She...

"Hanging out": print media constructions of young people in "public space" (1). (Peer Reviewed Paper).
December 1, 2002... Young people's use and negotiation of "public" space is often constructed as problematic in many settings. This paper reports on the print media portrayal of young people in "public space" via a study of data collected (2000-2001) from the...

Evaluation of the Young Offenders Pilot Program.
December 1, 2002... The Young Offenders Pilot Program (YOPP) was an initiative of the former Department of Education, Training and Youth Affairs (DETYA) and was managed by the Youth Bureau. The Department of Family and Community Services (FaCS) continued to...

Know your blog--or klog--make that a knowledge management weblog ... (Get It).
December 1, 2002... The blog is a comparatively recent Internet phenomenon that is defined by the web site `Marketing terms.com' (www.marketingterms.com/dictionary/blog/) as `a frequent, chronological publication of personal thoughts and web links'. The word...

Highlights from recent issues of Youth Field Xpress.
December 1, 2002... * August The Commonwealth Bank has launched a new web site to help young people make sense of their money. `Dollars and Sense' has been developed in consultation with teachers and curriculum experts from all State and Territory education...

Sane News. (Newsletter and magazines).(youth mental health)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... n.23, Winter 2002, Sane Australia, ISSN 1328-2255, 8pp. The latest issue of Sane News, the newsletter of SANE Australia, `a national charity helping people affected by mental illness', reports on research that has uncovered the blatant and...

Victorian Social Work. (Newsletter and magazines).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... v.11, n.1, 2002. The issue of young people in nursing homes is highlighted in this issue of Victorian Social Work. One thousand, one hundred people under the age of 50 live in Australian aged care facilities because there is no appropriate...

Issues. (Newsletter and magazines).(Periodical Review)
December 1, 2002... n.16, Winter, Australian Institute of Family Studies, 2002. The latest edition in the National Child Protection Clearinghouse's Child Abuse Prevention--Issues Papers series is titled `The role of mass media in facilitating education and...

Young People Now. (Newsletter and magazines).(Periodical Review)
December 1, 2002... n.163, November, National Youth Agency, ISSN 0956-2842, 40pp. Although Young People Now's (YPN) audience is British youth workers and other people who work with young people in Britain, this excellent magazine is always packed with articles...

ADCA News. (Newsletter and magazines).(Alcohol and other Drugs Council of Australia)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... n.13, Sept.-Oct., Alcohol and other Drugs Council of Australia, 2002, 8pp. Disturbing data from the National Drug Strategy Household Surveys introduces the lead story, `What is shaping Australian perceptions of drugs', in this issue of...

Salt. (Newsletter and magazines).(Periodical Review)
December 1, 2002... Spring, Young Endeavour Youth Scheme, 2002, 4pp. The Young Endeavour Youth Scheme is a youth development scheme that provides the opportunity for young people aged between 16 and 23 to undertake a voyage on a sail training ship as part of...

Understanding youth gangs. (Reports).(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... R. White, Australian Institute of Criminology, Trends and Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice paper No.237, ISSN 0817-8.542, ISBN 0642242771, 6pp. Rob White is a key member of the Ozgang Research Network, which has been recently formed to...

School strategies to deal with gangs. (Reports).(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... R. White, Australian Institute of Criminology, Trends and Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice paper No.240, ISSN 0817-8542, ISBN 0642242801, 6pp. The role that schools play in shaping the social resources and social identities of young...

Rural life of us: Young people and workers with young people in country Victoria. (Reports).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Centre for Adolescent Health and Youth Affairs Council of Victoria Inc., n.d. When the Youth Affairs Council of Victoria Inc. (YACVIc) and the Centre for Adolescent Health both decided to address the needs of young people and workers in...

Our Town: Working with same-sex attracted young people in rural communities. (Reports).(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... M. Frere, J. Jukes & M. Crowhurst, VicHealth, 2001, ISBN 095799902X, 72pp. VicHealth's `Mental Health Promotion Plan (MHPP) 1999-2002' recognised that young same-sex attracted people living in rural areas face significant mental health...

Education for Rural Development in Australia 1945-2001. (Reports).(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... J. Wyn, B. Sernmens, I. Falk & J. Guenther, Youth Research Centre, Working Paper 22, 2001, ISBN 0734021712, 48pp., $11.00 (including GST). This report, which was commissioned as part of a 10-country comparative study on rural education in...

Student Action Teams: an evaluation 1999-2000. (Reports).(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... R. Holdsworth, J. Stafford, H. Stokes & D. Tyler, Youth Research Centre, Working Paper 22, 2001, ISBN 0734021380, 64pp., $11.00 (including GST). The Student Action Team Program (SAT), which operated in Victorian secondary schools in...

Youth Allowance Evaluation: Executive summary. (Reports).(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... Commonwealth of Australia, 2002, ISBN 0642770352. The Department of Family and Community Services (FaCS) undertook a comprehensive three-year evaluation (1998-2001 ) of the short and medium-term impact of the Youth Allowance (YA), which was...

Ausyouth publications. (Reports).
December 1, 2002... Although Ausyouth closed its doors at the end of July 2002, its youth development reports are still available in PDF format free of charge from its web site at www.ausyouth.on.net In `Better than Fantastic': Young people talk about Youth...

Due Credit: Examining the potential to recognise the skills achieved by young people participating in youth development programs. (Reports).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Australian National Training Authority 2002; ISBN 1877057037; 45pp. The range of skills gained by participating in youth development programs may relate to those gained in formal education and training programs and could have the potential...

Through Young Black Eyes: a handbook to protect Indigenous children from the impact of family violence and child abuse. (Reports).(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... K. Bedford, Secretariat National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care, funded by Partnerships Against Domestic Violence, 2002, 120pp. This handbook was designed in response to identified needs expressed by Indigenous communities for...

It's About Time/Reconciliation.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... Streetwize Communications, 2002, ISBN 187622648X, 72pp., RRP $15.00. Streetwize's first book includes two of its most popular comics on Australian issues. In its original publication, the Reconciliation comic, which was commissioned by the...

Towards a Contemporary Curriculum for Youth Work.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... B. Merton & T. Wylie, The National Youth Agency, 2002, ISBN 086155275X, 25pp., 3.50 [pounds sterling] (about AUD$10.00). Youth workers may feel that definite descriptions of their work are not helpful because they want to be seen as...

Centre for Multicultural Youth Issues. (From the peaks: peak youth organisations report on their recent activities).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... CMYI is a Victorian state-wide community-based organisation that aims to strengthen and build innovative partnerships between young people, support services and the community to enhance life opportunities for young people from culturally and...

Youth Coalition of the ACT. (From the peaks: peak youth organisations report on their recent activities).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... The ACT and surrounding regions have had no central place to make contact with youth services and organisations since our youth referral service lost its funding some years ago. The Youth Coalition with the help of its community and business...

Children's satisfaction with out-of-home care in South Australia.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... P.H. Delfabbro, J.G. Barber b Y. Bentham, Journal of Adolescence, v.25, n.5, 2002, pp.523-33. Few studies have considered the level of children's satisfaction with out-of-home care despite an increased emphasis on the importance of...

Family reunification: Rhetoric and risks.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... B. Clare, Children Australia, v. 27, n.3, 2002, pp.19-25. In Australia, there has been a recent emphasis on family reunification as an intervention strategy with `high-risk' families whose children have been placed in the care of the state...

Reducing juvenile crime: conferencing versus court.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... G. Luke & B. Lind Crime and Justice Bulletin, n.69, April, 2002, pp.1-20. The growth in interest in restorative justice has generated research in various areas including the effect of restorative justice sanctions on reoffending. This...

Adolescents' Preparation for the future: perils and promise: a report of the study group on adolescence in the 21st century: Special edition of the Society for Research on Adolescence (SRA).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Journal of Research on Adolescence, v. 12, n.1, 2002. Published simultaneously as a book, this issue identifies emerging problems and opportunities in adolescents' preparation for adulthood. Though not a definitive prognostication, it's a...

Globalization, societal change, and new technologies: What they mean for the future of adolescence.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... R.W. Larson, Journal of Research on Adolescence, v. 12, n.1, 2002, pp.1-30. This article reviews methods used by futurists, outlining some of the macrochanges rapidly transforming the nature of adolescence. Important factors are the...

Social policy supports for adolescence in the twenty-first century: framing questions.(Abstract)
December 1, 2002... K. Pittman, M. Diversi & T. Ferber, Journal of Research on Adolescence, v. 12, n.1, 2002, pp.149-58. Worldwide changes are altering the conditions under which adolescents prepare for adulthood and are increasing the need for good social...

Self-esteem and smoking in youth--muddying the waters?(Abstract)
December 1, 2002... A. Glendinning, Journal of Adolescence, v.25, n.4, 2002, pp.415-25. New Zealand research by McGee and Williams (2000) indicates that global self-esteem is not related to substance use in early youth. Glendinning and Inglis (1999) also noted...

A critique of evaluated adolescent smoking cessation programmes.(Abstract)
December 1, 2002... W.R. Stanton & K.M. Smith, Journal of Adolescence, v.25, n.4, 2002, pp.427-38. Rates of adolescent smoking appear to be on the increase in many countries including Australia. However, research has concentrated on prevention of adolescent...

A national youth policy: achieving sustainable living conditions for all young people.(Abstract)
December 1, 2002... V. Ayres-Wearne, Growth, n.49, 2001, pp.7-15. The research for this paper formed part of the New Social Settlement project, which aimed at identifying how transformations in Australian working life and family life affect well-being across...

Associations between adolescent-mother and adolescent-best friend interactions.(Abstract)
December 1, 2002... K.A. Black, Adolescence, v. 37, n.146, 2002, pp.235-53. To examine the associations between adolescent-mother and adolescent-best friend interactions, 39 American adolescents recruited through schools and newspaper advertisements were...

Evaluating the success of Caucasian fathers in guiding adolescents.(Abstract)
December 1, 2002... R.D. Strom, T.E. Beckert, RS. Strata, S.K. Strom & D.L. Griswold, Adolescence, v. 37, n.145, 2002, pp.131-49. To increase fathers' participation in parent education classes, programs need to acknowledge fathers' strengths and offer...

Health promotion for adolescents in primary care: randomised controlled trial.(Abstract)
December 1, 2002... Z. Walker, I. Townsend, L. Oakley, C. Donovan, H. Smith, Z. Hurst, J. Bell & S. Marshall, British Medical Journal, v. 325, n.7363, 2002, pp.524-29. A randomised controlled trial involving 1,516 teenagers aged 14 to 15 in the UK was used to...

Suicide and prostitution among street youth: a qualitative analysis.(Abstract)
December 1, 2002... S.A. Kidd & M.J. Kral, Adolescence, v. 37, n.146, 2002, pp.411-30. Twenty-nine young homeless people in Toronto, Canada, participated in semi-structured interviews that focused on the topic of suicide. At least one suicide attempt was...

Relationship between poverty and health among adolescents.(Abstract)
December 1, 2002... T.J. Abernathy, G. Webster & M. Vermeulen, Adolescence, v. 37, n.145, 2002, pp.55-67. The negative association between poverty and health has been documented but the mechanism of the association is not well understood and, as a...

Rights, obligations and the public sphere: arguments and options for securing just policies for young people.(Abstract)
December 1, 2002... J. Bessant, Children Australia, v.27, n.3, 2002, pp.33-40. There is mounting evidence that young people in Australia have been too easily subjected to state-sponsored mistreatment and neglect. One reason the author suggests for this...

Australia's child asylum seekers.(Abstract)
December 1, 2002... J. Bessant, Alternative Law Journal, v.27, n.4, 2002, pp.165-70. The author of this article seeks to establish whether the circumstances under which young people are being held in various detention centres in Australia constitute a prima...

Peer crowd affiliation and internalizing distress in childhood and adolescence: a longitudinal follow-back study.(Abstract)
December 1, 2002... M.J. Prinstein & A.M. La Greca, Journal of Research on Adolescence, v. 12, n.3, 2002, pp.325-51. Students (n=246) from suburban American schools completed self-report measures of depression, social anxiety, loneliness, self-esteem and...

A congregation of one: individualized religious beliefs among emerging adults.(Abstract)
December 1, 2002... J. Jensen Arnett & L. Arnett Jensen, Journal of Adolescent Research, v. 17, n.5, 2002, pp.451-67. The religious beliefs and practices of 140 young American adults aged 21 to 28 were examined by interview and questionnaire. Nearly half the...

Making research useful.(Abstract)
December 1, 2002... L. Catan, Youth and Policy, n.76, 2002, pp.1-14. In recent years, there has been a resurgence in interest in evidence-based policy and practice (EBPP) in the UK. The many models of EBPP range from the customer-controlled to the...

"How can you deal with that?" Coping strategies among young residents of a rural community in New South Wales.(Abstract)
December 1, 2002... L. Bourke, Journal of Family Studies, v.8, n.2, 2002, pp.197-212. Previous research has indicated that young people employ a variety of coping strategies when negotiating their way through difficult circumstances. Some of these approaches...

Young, gay, homeless and invisible: a growing population?(Abstract)
December 1, 2002... G.A. Dunne, S. Prendergast & D. Telford, Culture, Health & Sexuality, v.4, n.1, 2002, pp.103-15. Anecdotal evidence from youth workers in Britain suggested to the authors that the number of young lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB} people in...

Job satisfaction among early school leavers working in the trades and the influence of vocational education in schools.(Abstract)
December 1, 2002... A. Taylor, Journal of Youth Studies, v.5, n.3, 2002, pp.271-89. The literature suggests that Australian youth lack vocational application and hold unreasonable expectations, and that those who leave school prior to Year 12 are disadvantaged...

A stocktake of the economics of vocational education and training in Australia: some implications for career development.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... C. Selby Smith, Australian Journal of Career Development, v. 11, n.2, 2002, pp.22-29. Four aspects of a recent stocktake of the economics of vocational education and training in Australia are addressed in this article. They are the...

Youth affairs peak Organisations.
December 1, 2002... Government Commonwealth Commonwealth Youth Bureau Department of Family & Community Services Box 7788, Canberra Mail Centre ACT 2610 Ph: (02) 6219 3523 Fax: (02) 6219 3549 Email: renata.rustowski@facs.gov.au Web:...