CYC 702 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Suicidal Ideation, Informal Learning, The Sequence
17 Nov 2016
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Adolescents improve their resilience and competencies more when interventions are specific, focused and personalized. Any discussion of prevention must include consideration of the influences of peer pressure in encouraging and maintaining problem behaviour. Cross-age, same-age, and class-wide peer tutoring and cooperative learning are. Peer cluster theory successful peer-mediated interventions: provides a way to operationalize peer pressure, especially as it relates to problem behaviours, this theory suggests that antisocial behaviour and school problems are major factors in creating deviant peer clusters. Most adolescents who are pulled away from an intervention typically return to their original environment and former peer cluster after treatment. The norming influence of the peer cluster often can diminish or eliminate the treatment effects: treatment strategies must consider peer clusters and provide alternatives for adolescents who may be drawn back to antisocial behaviour. Counselors can organize professionally led, weekly group counselling sessions for young people and their peers who engage in risky behaviours.
