Youth Studies Australia articles from September 2002

Youth Studies Australia archives from September 2002

ACYS web site--at your service!(Australian Clearinghouse for Youth Studies)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... It's been `Changing Rooms' renovation time at ACYS. Our web site, coming up to its seventh anniversary, has just undergone an extensive redesign--a preview of the new look is on the inside front cover of this issue. Check it out online at...

Teenage worries. (Attitudes and opinions).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... When Mission Australia, a community service organisation, asked young people to rank their concerns, suicide and depression proved to be respondents' biggest worry. The survey of 2,500 young people, mostly aged 12-17, was conducted online,...

Violence as play. (Bullying and violence).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... In the course of research for a book, American cultural critic Gerard Jones made a list of 30 different things children had turned into toy guns--the most popular being the index finger and thumb. But he was not gathering evidence to condemn...

Reports increasing. (Child abuse & protection).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... A new report published by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Child Protection Australia 2000-01, shows that reports of child abuse in Australia are growing. Child protection notifications increased from 91,734 in 1995-96 to 115,471...

Detention centres. (Child abuse & protection).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... A report released by the Catholic Commission for Justice Development and Peace claims that Australian immigration detention centres subject children to `institutional child abuse'. The report, called Damaging Kids, noted that among 264...

First-time offenders. (Crime and justice).(preventing recidivism among juvenile offenders)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Victoria Police have a program of cautioning young first-time offenders, under certain conditions, instead of charging them. Inspector Bill Mathers, who is in charge of youth affairs for Victoria Police, said the program was established because...

Restorative justice. (Crime and justice).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... The Victorian Government is planning to test a new program for non-violent offenders aged 13-18. It may involve them in repairing vandalised property, apologising to their victims, or paying restitution. In return, the offenders could avoid...

Not so fast, Mr Gore. (Discrimination).(Craig Gore)(age discrimination against children)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Queensland's Anti-Discrimination Commissioner, Karen Walters, has taken on Craig Gore, the developer of an `adults only' residential development on Hope Island. Mr Gore said that children would not be banned from the resort, but they would not...

SA Drugs Summit. (Drugs).(South Australian )(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... At a South Australian Drugs Summit, Associate Professor Robert Ali, director of clinical policy and research in the Drug and Alcohol Services Council, reported that young people are increasingly going on amphetamine binges that last for up to...

Chroming. (Drugs).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... The Queensland Ambulance Service's drug unit is responding to increasing calls to revive unconscious teenagers who have been inhaling volatile solvents. A spokeswoman for Drug Arm, Judith Hart, warns that this habit of `chroming' has spread...

Wanting to get drunk. (Drugs).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Many teenagers drink to get drunk and risk serious health problems by consuming dangerous amounts of alcohol, according to research prepared by the Commonwealth Government in preparation for the National Alcohol Campaign. The research found...

Teenage smoking. (Drugs).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Although fewer school children are taking up smoking--the first reduction in 10 years--health authorities are concerned that teenage habitual smokers are ignoring anti-smoking campaigns. A study by David Hill, of the Centre for Behavioural...

Illegal cigarette sales. (Drugs).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... The Queensland Cancer Fund has complained that lack of law enforcement has allowed retailers to continue selling cigarettes to children. Education Queensland surveyed a sample of students in Years 7-12 during 2000 and found that, at a time when...

Schizophrenia and drug use. (Drugs).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Dr Maryanne O'Donnell, a psychiatrist at the Prince of Wales Hospital in Sydney, believes that the widespread use of amphetamines and cannabis could be causing increasingly severe schizophrenic episodes in some young people. Dr O'Donnell,...

Psychotic reactions. (Drugs).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... The use of high-potency amphetamines is increasing in Australia as a heroin drought continues. Malcolm Hyde, Commissioner of the Australian Bureau of Crime Intelligence, says this is of concern not only because of the harm users do to...

Scare tactics questioned. (Drugs).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Tough methods of tackling illegal drug use by young people are probably doing more harm than good, according to the Alcohol and Other Drugs Council of Australia. Emma Saleeba, a Council project officer speaking in Sydney at the third...

Schemes to help training. (Education & training).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... The Commonwealth Government's apprenticeship scheme is to start a $32-million expansion next year. Employers will be paid $750 for taking on a new school-based apprentice, and a $750 bonus if they continue to employ the student after his or her...

More school counsellors needed. (Education and training).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... An inquiry chaired by Professor Tony Vinson, professor of social work at the University of New South Wales, reported that schools bear the brunt of social and family dislocation, and that the public education system in NSW needs at least...

Student suspensions. (Education and training).(numbers rising)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... In South Australia last year, an Education Department audit revealed a 20% increase over the previous year in the number of students who were suspended or excluded from government schools. The state's Minister for Education, Trish White, was to...

School leaving age. (Education & training).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... South Australia has joined Tasmania in increasing its minimum school-leaving age to 16. The change means that government secondary schools across the state will have an estimated extra 2,000 students, who would otherwise have left the system at...

Tackling inequalities. (Education & training).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... The Ronald Henderson Research Foundation's Pathways to Disadvantage report recommended reducing emphasis on the Victorian Certificate of Education results and increasing the number of paths to tertiary education, in order to redress a pattern...

Being your own boss. (Employment).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Many young people want to be their own bosses, but are not greatly concerned about the size of the pay packet, a survey has found. Kelly Services, a recruitment company, surveyed 1,500 people, and found that 41% of those aged between 15 and 24...

Retail must try harder. (Employment).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... The retail industry is faced with a shortage of talent because it has not actively recruited graduates, and because it has an image problem, according to Michelle Hannen, writing in Business Review Weekly. Many graduates believe the industry...

New ACT study. (Gender issues).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Improving the Outcomes of Boys, a draft report from the Australian Capital Territory's Education Department, suggests that female students are more focused on school work and plan better than boys, but also worry much more. The report on the...

Mixed picture. (Health and safety).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Australian children are generally in good health, and their health has improved since 1992, according to a new report from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Australia's Children: Their Health and Wellbeing 2002. It shows that...

Self-harm. (Health and safety).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Widespread publicity has been given to self-harm in detention centres but the problem is not peculiar to asylum seekers. Like bulimia and anorexia, self-harm has become a secret plague. `It's much more common than anorexia,' says Professor...

Asthma. (Health and safety).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... The annual Australia's Health survey from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare shows that 24% of children aged up to 14 have asthma, and there has been an increase of 1.4% a year over the past two decades. Dr Fadwa Al-Yaman, a...

New report. (Housing and homelessness).(youth homelessness)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... The Youth Homelessness 2001 report, prepared at RMIT University's Centre for Youth Affairs and funded by the Salvation Army and state governments, said that on any one night in Australia there would be over 26,000 homeless young people between...

Wish list. (Incomes & expenditures).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Mobile phones are the most coveted products in the $4-billion youth market, a government study has found. The study, Consumer Issues and Youth, was commissioned by the Commonwealth Consumer Affairs Advisory Council. It aimed to identify...

Education funding. (Indigenous youth).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... In the Commonwealth Budget for 2002-03, Indigenous learning was allocated $445 million for educational programs. This is expected to encourage 1,600 secondary students over the next two years to complete Year 12 or move into further education,...

Job training. (Indigenous youth).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Across the country, almost 52,000 Indigenous students undertook vocational education and training in the year 2000. This was an increase of more than 60% on the 1996 figure (Northern Territory News, 15/6/02, p.3).

WA report on abuse. (Indigenous youth).(Western Australia)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... The interim report of the `Gordon inquiry' (Inquiry into Response by Government to Complaints of Family Violence and Child Abuse in Aboriginal Communities) said that the level of child sexual abuse and family violence in Western Australian...

Health program in NT. (Indigenous youth).(Northern Territory)(aboriginal communities receive health program funding)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... The Northern Territory's remote Aboriginal communities will receive between $25 million and $35 million a year to fund primary health care. The program is designed to give Indigenous people control of their own health services through...

Queensland: access to services. (Indigenous youth).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... New figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics revealed that last year 79% of Indigenous communities in Queensland did not have secondary schools to Year 12 within a radius of 10 kilometres. Half of the Indigenous communities had...

Inspirational television. (Media).(children, television, and imagination)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... A study led by Dr Helen Skouteris, of La Trobe University, suggests that the television and videos that children watch can inspire them to play imaginatively and develop confidence and skills. The study found that Australian children don't just...

On-site consultation. (Public space).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Speaking in Hobart at a conference of the Local Government Association of Tasmania, Dr Elaine Stratford, a lecturer in geography and environmental studies at the University of Tasmania, said young people should be involved in urban design. Many...

Churchgoers' trend. (Religion and spirituality).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... The report on a large-scale survey amongst Christians, The National Church Life Survey 2001, stressed a need for churches to engage more with young people. In May 2001 about 435,000 churchgoers in more than 7,000 congregations and parishes in...

Confidential records. (Rights and responsibilities).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Some concern has been expressed about laws that allow children as young as 12 to keep their Medicare records secret from their parents. Under the policy of the Health Insurance Commission, which oversees Medicare, parents must have the consent...

Country facts. (Rural and isolated).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Country people are more likely than people in Sydney to drop out of school, be unemployed, or be smothered in government red-tape, according to a statistical report released by the New South Wales Farmers Association. The Association's...

Careers kit. (Rural and isolated).(kit encourages rural employment)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Seeking to improve young people's perceptions of rural industry, a new resource kit features a range of rural employment and career options designed to encourage school students into a rural career. It is aimed towards senior secondary...

Online career guide. (Services and welfare).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... My Future, a new online career service, is to enable students and those looking for a change in career to explore their options and make informed decisions. The site is at www.myfuture.edu.au. It provides information on occupations, industries,...

Text message contact. (Services and welfare).(mobile phone text messaging)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... By the end of this year, about 500,000 young techno-savvy welfare recipients should be able to get information from Centrelink via text messages on their mobile phones. The messages can include everything from reminders about appointments to...

Contraceptives for teenagers. (Sexuality).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... At a scientific meeting of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, Professor Roger Short, of the department of obstetrics and gynaecology at Melbourne University, said that teenagers and adults should...

Site answers questions. (Sexuality).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... A new web site developed for children around the world by the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, at La Trobe University, aims to tackle high rates of teenage pregnancy and the AIDS epidemic. The site is for 10-12-year-olds,...

Victorian survey. (Sexuality).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... In a research project on the sexual well-being of young Australians, Professor Susan Moore, of Swinburne University of Technology, surveyed 220 Victorian TAFE and university students aged between 17 and 24, with the average age between 18 and...

HIV: a world view. (Sexuality).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Youth have become the new face of AIDS, with 6,000 young people a day newly infected by HIV, according to a grim assessment by United Nations agencies. Twenty years after HIV/AIDS was first reported in the gay population, the virus has taken a...

Great leap backward? (Sport & leisure).(today's children are not physically fit)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Robert De Castella, former champion marathon runner and a sometime director of the Australian Institute of Sport, recently studied the ability of primary school children to perform a standing long jump. He found that both girls and boys, in...

Prevention course proposed. (Suicide).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... What is believed to be the first tertiary course in suicide prevention in Australia is being developed at Griffith University. The proposed course, if approved by the University authorities, would be delivered in four part-time semesters over...

Mobile phones. (Technology).(mobile phone use and radiation injury risk)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Gro Harlem Brundtland, director-general of the World Health Organisation, has revealed that she would not tolerate a mobile phone near her for fear of radiation. They are banned from her Geneva office, and she warned parents against letting...

Young people's drug use when heroin is less available. (Peer Reviewed Paper).
September 1, 2002... A study of the effects of a heroin shortage on the demand for drug treatment services found that there were no significant changes in either demand for treatment or in the demographic characteristics of adolescents admitted to the program....

Generation gaps and fault lines: Vietnamese-Australian young people and illicit drug use in Melbourne. (Peer Reviewed Paper).
September 1, 2002... Ruth Webber reports on the results of a pilot study conducted in 2001 of young people and parents from Melbourne's Vietnamese community. She relates the stories of Vietnamese parents and young Vietnamese and the reasons they give for the...

Alcohol consumption & drug use in a sample of Australian university students. (Peer Reviewed Paper).
September 1, 2002... This study of substance use in a sample of Australian university students found that significant proportions of students drank to excess or reported drug use. In addition, a core group reported both drug and alcohol use; however, hearty...

The victimised student's dilemma: to tell or not to tell: encouraging children and young people to "tell" on bullies is a strategy that has been employed in Australian schools. Ken Rigby, Australia's pioneer researcher on bullying, and Alan Barnes analyse the results of a large survey to ascertain the usefulness of this strategy in reducing the incidence of bullying.
September 1, 2002... Estimates of the number of school-children who are bullied or victimised by their peers at school vary according to the research method and the sampling procedure employed. The largest survey conducted in Australia, which employed the Peer...

Bullying at school: secondary students' experiences of bullying at school and their suggestions for dealing with it.
September 1, 2002... A nationwide survey of the rights of New Zealand high school students provided data which revealed that approximately half of the students did not think that teachers would help if told about bullying or that school policies would result in...

The costs and causes of low self-esteem: Nicholas Emler, professor of Social Psychology at the London School of Economics, examines the research literature to determine what is known about the consequences of low self-esteem, the factors and conditions that determine a person's level of self-esteem, and the effect of planned interventions on self-esteem.
September 1, 2002... There is a widespread view that low self-esteem is a risk factor for a broad range of psychological and behavioural problems. However, neither public discussion nor decisions to invest in prevention and treatment have been strongly informed or...

Youth for the future.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... The new pan-Commonwealth Youth for the Future (YFF) initiative was announced by the Prime Minister at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) on 5 March 2002. The initiative provides a new overall direction for Commonwealth (of...

Electronic information for the youth field. (Get It).(youth services web sites)
September 1, 2002... Youth.Monitor@educ.utas.edu.au View this page online at: http://www.acys.utas.edu.au/ncys/ysa/nn/ National Future Directions in Youth Development Forum and Workshop www.ausyouth.on.net/ The proceedings of this forum, held in...

National Alcohol Strategy. (Kits and Resources).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Prepared by members of the National Expert Advisory Committee on Alcohol for the Intergovernmental Committee on Drugs, 2001, comprising two documents: National Alcohol Strategy: A plan for action 2001 to 2003-04, ISBN 0642503249, 52pp.; Alcohol...

My Moola. (Kits and Resources).(personal finance kit for kids)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Streetwize Communications, 2002, ISBN 1876226382, 8pp., RRP $1.00. This full-colour publication, which was produced for the First Nations Advantage Credit Union, is an Indigenous-specific, quick guide to managing money. It includes advice...

Spur of the Moment educator's kit. (Kits and Resources).
September 1, 2002... Streetwize Communications, 2002, ISBN 1876226501, RRP $10.00. Produced for the National Motor Vehicle Theft Reduction Council, this kit aims to help young people develop appropriate decision-making skills and understand the potential...

Evidence Supporting Treatment: The Effectiveness of Interventions for Illicit Drug Use, ANCD Research Paper 3.
September 1, 2002... L. Gowing, H. Proudfoot, S. Henry-Edwards & M. Teeson, Australian National Council on Drugs, 2001, ISBN 1877018023, 103pp. This report, commissioned by the Australian National Council on Drugs, was undertaken by researchers at the National...

Youth Development for Young Indigenous Australians: a consultation document.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... AUSYOUTH, May 2002, 57pp. With 49% of Australia's Indigenous population under the age of 19, this youth development consultation document is of particular importance. Ausyouth aimed to gather important feedback from the increasingly broad...

Bullying and Victimisation in Schools: A restorative justice approach.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... B. Morrison, Australian Institute of Criminology, Trends and Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice paper No. 219, 2002, ISBN 0642242526, 6pp. Available online at: http://www.aic.gov.au A practical approach to tackling bullying in schools...

Hepatitis and Health: A Survey of High School Students in New South Wales.
September 1, 2002... P. Van De Ven, D. Youdell, A. Smith, G. Mistler & Y. Pan, National Centre in HIV Social Research, 2001, ISBN 1875978453, 55pp. This publication, as the subtitle suggests, describes a survey undertaken to determine high school students'...

New Perspectives on Bullying.
September 1, 2002... K. Rigby, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2002, ISBN 185302872X, 320pp., RRP AUD$43.95, NZ$54.95. Bullying is such a topical issue that it is surprising to find that it is also a relatively new area of investigation. The first systemic study...

Childhood and Society.
September 1, 2002... N. Lee, Open University Press, 2001, ISBN 0335206085, 157 pp., RRP $49.95 Societal changes in recent years have muddied the distinctions between childhood and adulthood, leading researchers of the sociology of childhood to search for new...

Young People at the Centre: Participation and Social Change.
September 1, 2002... J. Foster & K. Naidoo, Commonwealth Secretariat, 2001, ISBN 0850926815, 123pp., RRP 10.99 [pounds sterling]. Youth participation. What springs to mind? Involving young men in the design of skate parks? Developing a youth consultation group...

Challenging Violence in Schools: An Issue of Masculinities.
September 1, 2002... M. Mills, Open University Press, 2001, ISBN 0335205844, 169 pp., RRP $49.95. Using case studies from his work with gender and violence programs in Queensland schools, the author explores the theoretical basis for discussion of the issue of...

Raising Real People: Creating a Resilient Family.
September 1, 2002... Andrew Fuller, Australian Council for Educational Research Press, 2002, ISBN 0864314248, 207pp., RRP $26.95 plus $5.50 for postage and handling. Andrew Fuller is a clinical psychologist and lecturer in child, adolescent and family...

The Heart Masters: Junior to Middle Secondary, a Program for the Promotion of Emotional Intelligence and Resilience in the Junior Years of Secondary School.
September 1, 2002... A. Fuller, R. Bellhouse and G. Johnston, Inyahead Press, 2002, ISBN 0957767048, 190pp. Along with Bob Bellhouse and Glenda Johnson, Andrew Fuller has developed the Heart Masters program for the promotion of resilience and emotional...

Ethnic Spotlight.
September 1, 2002... n.55, Federation of Ethnic Communities' Councils of Australia, May 2002, ISSN 0814-8104, 27pp. A major feature in this issue of Ethnic Spotlight tells the story of how one person--Camilla Cowley--made a big difference to young refugees'...

Link: Examining Issues from Disability Perspectives.
September 1, 2002... v.11, n.2, 2002, ISSN 1034-8883, 48pp. The magazine Link is about people with disabilities, and includes some articles on young people with disabilities. One article titled `Young people with disabilities, misfits in aged care homes',...

CREATE/Captain StarBe's Funstar magazine.
September 1, 2002... v.3, n.1, 2002, 31pp. This publication comes from the Create Foundation, which does work for children in care. The magazine is unique in that it is two magazines in one. One half is for 12 and unders, then flip it over and there is the 12...

Our Parents Are Fighting! A guide for young people and parents.
September 1, 2002... Prepared by S.H.E. (Support Help and Empowerment Inc.), Hobart. Wording, art and design by students at Claremont College 2001-2002. Funded by Office of Youth Affairs, Department of Education, Tasmania. Our Parents Are Fighting: A guide for...

ONtrack: Real Skills, Rural Future.(CD-ROM)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... CD-ROM package, Rural Skills Australia, 2002. This CD-ROM is for young people interested in a rural future, it is a great way to find out about the kind of rural job that interests you. The CD was produced to promote rural jobs for younger...

Youth Affairs Council of Western Australia (YACWA). (From The Peaks).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Youth Affairs Council State Conference `Managing Sustainability: The Quest for the Holy Grail'. YACWA held their State Conference in May 2002; it was very well attended with delegates and keynotes from all over Australia (and some...

Youth coalition of the ACT. (From The Peaks).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... MAKING CONTACT with youth services MAKING CONTACT, a new online database of organisations and services working with young people in Canberra, is now available at http://contact.youthcoalition.net `MAKING CONTACT will provide Canberrans...

Youth Affairs Council of South Australia (YACSA). (From The Peaks).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Highlights for June/July 2002: * YACSA prepared a submission to the State Government of South Australia's review of the Children's Protection Act 1993. * YACSA participated in the Premiers Drug Summit 2002. * Members of YACSA's...

Loneliness in high risk adolescents: the role of coping, self-esteem, and empathy. (At-risk youth).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... B.T. McWhirter, T.M. Besett-Alesch, J. Horibata & I. Gat, Journal of Youth Studies, v.5, n.1, 2002, pp.69-84. The relationships among types of loneliness, empathy, coping skills and self-esteem were examined among 75 high-risk adolescents...

Do juveniles bully more than young offenders? (Bullying and violence).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... J.L. Ireland, Journal of Adolescence, v.25, n.2, 2002, pp.155-68. Ninety-five juvenile (12-17 years) and 196 young offenders (18-21 years) from an English prison completed one questionnaire that measured bullying directly and another that...

School counsellors' attitudes and beliefs about child sexual abuse. (Child abuse).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... J.D.G. Goldman & U.K. Padayachi, Journal of Family Studies, v.8, n.1, 2002, pp.53-73. Research exists on the role of school counsellors in addressing child sexual abuse, and on the prevalence of child sexual abuse in Australia; however,...

Female adolescent friendship and delinquent behaviour. (Crime and justice).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... A.P. Pleydon & J.G. Schner, Adolescence, v.36, n.142, 2001, pp.189-205. A study of young female offenders (N=29) and female high school students (N=47) in Canada compared the samples in terms of delinquent behaviour and relationships with...

Adolescents and attachment: implications for adults working with young people. (Development).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... N. Atwool, Childrenz Issues, v.6, n.1, 2002, pp.39-43. Adolescence is often characterised as a phase in which young people strive for independence. The author challenges that conception and suggests that attachment relationships are...

Adolescents' beliefs about future substance use: a comparison of current users and non-users of cigarettes, alcohol and illicit drugs. (Drugs and alcohol).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... I. Sutherland & J.P. Shepherd, Journal of Adolescence, v.25, n.2, 2002, pp. 169-81. Young people's intentions in regards to the consumption of cigarettes, alcohol and illicit drugs are of potential value in planning legislation, health...