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"You want our lives to run like clockwork. A tight schedule dictated by funding, limits of patience, supply and demand imbalances. The timing cogs appear as a specified number of sessions or as deadlines. The 'we'll be working together for the next ten weeks' and the 'you have to sort yourself out by the end of the month or we'll have to look at moving you on'. New school, new foster care placement, new treatment, basically moved on to somewhere new or back to somewhere old or dumped nowhere if we don't have a new attitude, a new behaviour. We have to be fixed or at least less broken by the time the clock strikes midnight. The tick tock is always there, the soundtrack to our time with you. Which is strange because for so much of our lives time stood still, the minute and second hands did not move. When we were being hit with hands or words, when we were being molested, time did not march on by..."
The idea has been recommended by academics, who found a link between parenting styles and the likelihood of children being bullied at school. Children who grow up in overprotective households are more likely to be victimised by bullies because they do not learn how to deal with conflict, the researchers found, after reviewing 70 studies that considered the experiences of more than 200,000 young people.
Children brought up in "harsh" environments, where they are neglected or shouted at, are also more likely to be bullied, according to the academics from the University of Warwick and Kingston University in England.
Students swap cannabis for hard-to-detect substances, study suggests
Chingford MP Iain Duncan Smith announced he will push for more business and sport opportunities for young people escaping gang culture after visiting the new offices of a gang mediation organisation.
A legal duty to support care leavers until they reach 25 must be introduced if outcomes among the group are to improve, a coalition of charities has stated.
Thirteen young survivors of foster care describe the pain of growing up in "If I Could Have My Childhood Back..." Produced and directed by William Goins. To ...
What are our listening intentions?
What's the difference between self-awareness and self-indulgence? A new study shows that excessively using words like "I" and "Me" can lead to depression.
If we’ve been getting most of our information about the adolescent brain from oversimplified media reports or from pop-psych books, we may have fallen victim to one of the following myths...
Via Gina Stepp
A campaign to educate young people to help friends who self-harm has been launched after figures revealed the number of people self-poisoning has soared by more than 40 per cent in a decade.
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Being sober does not mean being happy. We have to work on our emotional sobriety as well. This means changing our behaviors and our feelings.
Via Maisen Mosley
While census data reveals a spike in the number of young carers our report highlights the families and young people behind the numbers.
Go the whole hog and collaborate so everyone can benefit from the
best ideas, David Moran writes. "I worked with Swoffard in Nashville, Tennessee, for two years, supporting the turnaround of 34 high-priority schools as part of a programme delivered by private provider Tribal Education. All the schools shared common characteristics - poor performance, low expectations, high teacher turnover, fragile cultures, a lack of autonomy and accountability - and all served communities with high levels of deprivation. These challenges are similar to those encountered by schools in urban settings across the globe. And the solutions to these problems are equally applicable to all schools that are dealing with difficult circumstances...
...To achieve improvement, the ongoing challenge is to enable school leaders to identify great practice and help them to replicate it in their own school, while also taking on the responsibility of sharing it across the system. We now have the technology to analyse quantitative and qualitative educational data and convert this into information to drive collaboration."
A shortage of foster carers is resulting in placements breaking down and children moving too frequently between different families, it has been claimed.
After 11 years of working on the new DSM, some are saying that it's time to retire the manual and think abut mental health entirely differently
Staff in some young offender institutions will have to oversee more young people under plans developed by the Prison Service, CYP Now can exclusively reveal.
An alliance of leading social care charities and major private sector organisations has been launched to combat youth homelessness.
A plethora of 'branded' anti-bullying programmes are on offer but do
they work? And are they more effective than in-school practices?
John "Jack" Greene, a student at the University of Colorado Boulder, shares his story of living with dyslexia as a child, and the impact of accessible audiobook accommodations from Learning Ally that have helped him thrive in college.
Via Lou Salza
Stephen is a Senior Directing major at Carnegie Mellon who also has ADHD. In this really engaging talk he argues for ADHD to be viewed as a different way of thinking rather than a disorder that needs to be medicated out of people. Instead different ways of thinking need to be met with different styles of teaching and methods of engagement to allow ADHDers strengths to come to the fore.
Via Lon Woodbury
Last week I posed my own question that I needed an answer to: Q: What do you do when you feel like you’ve tried everything with a group but the youth still have behavior issues? What suggestions do you have for my specific situation? Thank you to everyone who offered advice and suggestions. They were all useful and valid suggestions and I appreciate you taking the time to interact and join in the discussion. I’d like to share the suggestions so that other youth workers in a similar situation can get more ideas from other experienced youth workers on the topic – because I know I’m not the only one with this problem sometimes.
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