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From:Youth Studies Australia (Vol. 32, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed"It's easier to be mean to people online" is just one of the perceptive observations by the subjects of this study of six Melbourne schoolgirls' engagement with the social networking site Facebook. These are not "mean"...
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From:Youth Studies Australia (Vol. 32, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedNonmedical use of prescription drugs, such as for self-treatment and recreational use, is becoming a serious problem among youth in the USA. This study of more than 11,000 Year 11 public school students in Delaware...
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From:Youth Studies Australia (Vol. 32, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedA park design "walkshop" was facilitated by a lecturer as part of an undergraduate unit in youth participation at an Australian tertiary college. Inspired by the work of landscape architect Lawrence Halprin (1916-2009),...
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From:Youth Studies Australia (Vol. 32, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewedheadspace, established in 2006 with 30 delivery sites across Australia, aims to increase service access and improve outcomes for 12-25-year-olds who have, or are at risk of developing, mental health problems. This...
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From:Youth Studies Australia (Vol. 32, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedMany commentators and social researchers believe that young people in Australia and other western countries increasingly reject the responsibilities and commitments that come with "adulthood" This perspective is...
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From:Youth Studies Australia (Vol. 32, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedInternational guidelines recommend confidentiality for adolescents in a medical setting, and evidence shows that assurances of confidentiality are highly valued by young people and influence their willingness to attend...
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From:Youth Studies Australia (Vol. 32, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThis special double issue arose from the perceived need for a compendium of successful strategies, attending to "what works", that could be recommended to administrators and teachers at schools and colleges. "The...
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From:Youth Studies Australia (Vol. 32, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedFlexible Learning Options (FLO) programs were established in South Australia to increase the number of students completing their education to a Year level and to better prepare them for future study or work. Literature...
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From:Youth Studies Australia (Vol. 32, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedYouth peacebuilding: Music, gender, and change L. Pruitt, 2013, SUNY Press, Albany, ISBN 9781438446554 (hardback). Youth peacebuilding is essentially a text that dually explores the poverty of research done in the...
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From:Youth Studies Australia (Vol. 32, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe use of digital technology by young people is an increasingly researched and measured phenomenon, whether at the micro-cultural level, such as the interesting research on schoolgirl usage of Facebook abstracted in...
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From:Youth Studies Australia (Vol. 32, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedBoy racer culture: Youth, masculinity and deviance K. Lumsden, 2013, Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon, ISBN 9781843929847 (hardback). Karen Lumsden's book is an ethnographic study of car culture in Aberdeen, Scotland....
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From:Youth Studies Australia (Vol. 32, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThis Canadian study looks at the effects of parent media violence workshops on the post-workshop monitoring activities of parents and the media consumption behaviours of their adolescent children. The study uses as a...
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From:Youth Studies Australia (Vol. 32, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedA political ecology of youth and crime A. France, D. Bottrell & D. Armstrong, 2012, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, ISBN 9780230280533 (hardback). This book makes a much-needed departure from developmental...
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From:Youth Studies Australia (Vol. 32, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedDelinquent behaviour tends to peak in adolescence and, for most, declines in early adulthood. There have been a variety of explanations for this desistance, but, according to the authors of this study, little work has...
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From:Youth Studies Australia (Vol. 32, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIt has been a big year for youth policy initiatives around the world and much of the ground gained has been thanks to correspondence via the internet--the young generation's communication mode of choice. Government...
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From:Youth Studies Australia (Vol. 32, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedKey concepts in youth studies M. Cieslik & D. Simpson, 2013, Sage, Thousand Oaks, ISBN 9781848609853 (paperback). Key concepts in youth studies by Mark Cieslik and Donald Simpson is an easy-to-read,...
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From:Youth Studies Australia (Vol. 32, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThis literature review argues that music has become a genuine developmental resource deserving of more attention from developmental psychology in adolescence, and it also asks: Can music have any significant influence...
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From:Youth Studies Australia (Vol. 32, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe September issue of Youth Studies Australia is one that will keep you on your toes. None of this nodding off over papers which describe research that sounds awfully familiar. No, brains will need to be fully engaged...
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From:Youth Studies Australia (Vol. 32, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedFor those readers who don't know Flinders Island, would you mind describing where it is and what it's like? Flinders Island is in the Bass Strait between Tasmania and Victoria (on the eastern side). It is a 25-minute...
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From:Youth Studies Australia (Vol. 32, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedChild and Adolescent Mental Health ISSN: 1475-3588 (online) http://www.acamh.org.uk/bfora/systems/xmlviewer/ default.asp?arg=DS_ACAMH_DOCART_46/ firsttitle.xsl/69http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/...