Adolescent Treatment Interventions and Youth Article Review

This research considered this by looking at a key constituent of low self-control which is the risk seeking tendency in order to decide its constancy and change throughout early childhood, its influences on changes in criminal behavior, and its receptiveness to a complete delinquency lessening program. These matters were looked at with information from the Children at Risk (CAR) program, an arbitrarily allocated interference that looked at early youth. The examination exposed considerable reliability in risk seeking, but there was proof of change as well, and these alterations were connected with contemporary alterations in delinquency. Risk seeking alterations were not a consequence of contribution in the CAR program, in spite of that program's achievement at dropping some appearance of delinquency (Hay, Meldrum, Forrest and Ciaravolo, 2010).

Part II: Assessment of the main strengths of the reading with particular emphasis on its utility for understanding adolescent development or social work intervention.

This research sought to contribute new insight on self-control expansion throughout adolescence with a longitudinal assessment of risk seeking tendency of low self-control. The conclusions maintained a conception of self-control that forecasts distinguished stability but also permits for the opportunity that some people will experience shifts in complete self-control that change their location relative to others. If early introduction to conventional socialization influences complete and relative levels of self-control in the first decade of life, it is rational to anticipate that socialization at later stages of life in the circumstance of the family, the peer set, and the neighborhood can be significant as well (Hay, Meldrum, Forrest and Ciaravolo, 2010).

Part III: Analysis of the main weaknesses or deficits of the reading with particular emphasis upon its deficiencies for understanding adolescent development or social work intervention.

This study had a couple of limitations that should be considered. An additional way in which research could go beyond the present study would be to think about the link between treatment and self-control with a broader gauge of self-control than what was accessible with the CAR data. Even though this study looked at risk seeking procedures in order to be comparatively strong in terms of internal reliability and construct validity, it nevertheless is an incomplete gauge of the broader notion of low self-control.There is the likelihood exists that other measurements of low self-control could have fashioned different patterns from what were observed here. Additionally, it should be stressed that new conversation on the conceptualization and measurement of low self-control has materialized, and the conclusions from those discussions should be integrated into future examinations of the extent and causes of self-control change (Hay, Meldrum, Forrest and Ciaravolo, 2010).

Part IV: Specific suggestions to the author(s) for remedying the above weaknesses or deficits and for improving the quality and utility of the reading so as to enhance its usefulness for understanding adolescent development or social work intervention.

The point of this study was to determine the consequences of low self-control on young people along with how it expands during childhood and what kinds of incidents trigger the changes that take place. It seems logical that in order to do this the link between treatment and self-control should be looked at in order to more broadly gauge the notion of self-control. It is also important to look at the how low self-esteem is measured and is this the appropriate way for it to be done. And once a good measure is established it is also important to look at all things that influence self-esteem and how they sway youth in the end.

References

Arthur, Michael W., Hawkins, J. David, Brown, Eric C, Briney, John S., Oesterle, Sabrina and Abbott, Robert D. (2010). Implementation of the Communities that Care Prevention

System by Coalitions in the Community Youth Development Study. Journal of Community Psychology, 38(2), p. 245 -- 258.

Hay, Carter, Meldrum, Ryan, Forrest, Walter and Ciaravolo, Emily. (2010). Stability and Change

in Risk Seeking: Investigating the Effects of an Intervention Program. Retrieved….....