Youth resilience framework for reducing health-risk behaviors in adolescents☆
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Youth resilience framework
The Youth Resilience Framework presented here (see Figure 1) was developed by the authors to address individual and sociocultural risk factors and protective resources that can promote or hinder positive and negative health outcomes in adolescence. This model acknowledges that risk factors and protective resources are present throughout an individual’s life. The term “risk” originates in epidemiology and reflects the chances of adverse outcomes of morbidity and mortality in response to
Conclusions and implications
Children with many risk factors and few protective resources are vulnerable to adverse health outcomes in adolescence. Risk factors such as increased distress and poor school performance are associated with multiple health-risk behaviors, including tobacco and alcohol use (Costa et al., 1995), weapon-carrying, suicide attempts (Vega, Alderete, Kolody, & Aguilar-Gaxiola, 2000), and early sexual activity (Coker et al., 1994) that manifest in adolescence. These health-risk behaviors are believed
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This paper was developed with a research award to Lynn Rew, P.I. [1-R01-HD39554-01A2], cofunded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) and the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR)/National Institutes of Health (NIH).