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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"PYD"”.
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Swinging towards intentionality: Exploring the process of life skills development in seasonal camp staff at a sport-based PYD camp using creative non-fictions
There has been a growing body of literature to explore the experiences and outcomes associated with summer camp staff (Botting et al., 2021; Kendellen et al., 2016; Povilaitis & Tamminen, 2018). However, studies focusing specifically within the context of day camp settings remain underrepresented. …
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THE STUDY OF PYRENEDIONE AS A PHOTOREDOX CATALYST AND A FLUOROMETRIC PROBE FOR VISUAL DETECTION AND QUANTIFICATION OF TRYPTOPHAN
… and biochemical redox processes. Pyrenediones (PYD) are poly aromatic quinones with extended conjugated structures which enable them to absorb light in the visible range. Their exceptionally strong electron-accepting and hydrogen abstracting abilities in excited states make them promising …
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Strong Girls Mentors: An Investigation of How Identity of Mentors Change in the Strong Girls Program
… examines how positive youth development (PYD) programs impact the mentors who participate in these programs. The first study is a scoping review that explored 13 articles that met inclusion criteria. The purpose of the scoping review was to explore mentors’ perspectives regarding their …
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Positive Youth Development in Tanzanian Youth: Utility of the Developmental Assets Approach
… interested in positive youth development (PYD), an approach that emphasizes the competencies, strengths, and responsibilities of youth from all backgrounds. This paradigm may be especially useful in research with international youth given the paucity of research on international populations …
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An Evidence Based Practice Training and Educational Curriculum for Adolescent Mental Health Promotion
… mental health. The Positive Youth Development (PYD) framework is a strength-based perspective that has demonstrated and empirically supported outcomes for the development of protective assets, life skills, and competencies. Primary care providers are at a disadvantage to address the cultivation …
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SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN STAFF AND YOUTH IN A PHYSICAL ACTIVITY-BASED POSITIVE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM
Positive youth development (PYD) programs offer enriching experiences that help young people discover and develop skills that will help them become productive, successful, and healthy adults (Damon, 2004; Lerner, von Eye, Lerner, & Lewin-Bizan, 2009). The social context within PYD programs serves …
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Pathways to Positive Youth Development in African Contexts: The Role of Contribution
… emergent outcome of positive youth development (PYD) in the Lerner and Lerner Five Cs model of PYD is described as a commitment by youth to give back to the world around them in personally meaningful ways following sufficient development of the five Cs - competence, confidence, connection, …
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Promoting Positive Development Among Rural, Left-Behind Youth in China: A Mixed-Methods Approach
<p>The positive youth development (PYD) framework has shifted our attention from a deficit-based approach to a strength-based perspective to studying adolescent development (Lerner, 2005; Lerner & Steinberg, 2009). Integrating both the PYD and resilience science frameworks, this study developed and …
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The Potential of Green Care Interventions to Promote Positive Youth Development with a One Health Lens
… Green Care, Positive Youth Development (PYD), and One Health. Green Care is an organizing construct for various interventions that use nature as a framework. I suggest that a nature-based program which incorporates Animal-assisted and horticulture interventions have the potential to …
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Using a Social Ecological Framework to Understand Healthy Relationships and Unintended Pregnancy Risk Among Youth in Rural Communities and Youth Engaged in Systems
… the impact of positive youth development (PYD) on the use of effective contraceptives for sexually active youth who are system involved. Only 13.9% used condoms alone and 41.5% hormonal contraception (+/- condoms) in the past three months. Multivariate ordinal logistic regression revealed …
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Social and community support among nonmetropolitan gender and sexual minority youth: a mixed methods study
… of their risks, positive youth development (PYD) theory contends that all youth have the potential to thrive when their strengths are aligned with positive resources in their environment. Research aimed at reducing risk and promoting well-being for GSM youth has focused on urban youth in …
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Positive Youth Development Among Latino/a Youth in a Service Learning Program
… (R&S) program. Three positive youth development (PYD) variables, including civic responsibility, ethnic identity, and connection to nature were assessed before and after participation. Challenges in program implementation and data collection resulted in a small subset of participants that …
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An evaluation of the Qhubeka! Youth Development programme: Using a generic qualitative approach
… a typical Positive Youth Development programme (PYD). It offers academic support that is not typical of PYD's. They tend to focus on cultivating proficiencies and other life skills and therefore can be fitted in with After-School Programmes (ASP), which focuses on cultivating learning outcomes. …
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Socialization Trajectories of Civic Development: Examining Variation Among Children in Black Immigrant and African American Families
… from work linking positive youth development (PYD) to civic engagement (Lerner et al., 2006), this study examined how socialization trajectories from early childhood through adolescence in concert with early childhood experiences and contexts related to adolescent civic development. Civic …
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US Foreign Policy Towards National Movements: Impact of Joint Combat Operations, Affective Trust, and Identity
… while labeling others as terrorists. The PKK and PYD—sister organizations sharing the same ideology and leader—serve as a prime example of this inconsistency: the PKK is designated a terrorist organization, while the PYD has emerged as a key US partner. Similarly, Iraq's Kurdish ruling parties …
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Does Religion Help with Nature Exposure? Faith as a Moderator During Summer Camp
Background: The positive youth development (PYD) movement utilizes a strengths-based approach in which specific conditions can be facilitated to promote social, emotional, cognitive, behavioral, and moral/spiritual growth that contributes to further successful lifelong development amongst …
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Does Religion Help with Nature Exposure? Faith as a Moderator During Summer Camp
Background: The positive youth development (PYD) movement utilizes a strengths-based approach in which specific conditions can be facilitated to promote social, emotional, cognitive, behavioral, and moral/spiritual growth that contributes to further successful lifelong development amongst …
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Participation in SOS Outreach: a positive youth development program
… focus on fostering Positive Youth Development (PYD) with a primary goal of helping youth develop positive life skills and positive trajectories. Many of these programs emphasize providing youth with opportunities to develop positive self-identities and life skills that they can apply to other …
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A Formative Evaluation of the Dream Toolkit component of the Be the Dream Programme
… Component of the Be the Dream Programme, a PYD programme implemented by Dream Factory Foundation in Cape Town. Three evaluations were performed, namely programme theory evaluation, implementation evaluation, and short-term outcome evaluation. A combination of qualitative and quantitative …
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Relative age effects: exploring possible solutions and the relationships between relative age, sport participation, education, and indicators of positive youth development
… education, and positive youth development (PYD). Methods. A secondary analysis of Ontario secondary school students (N= 22,915) age 13 to 18 from the COMPASS study was carried out. The influence of relative age on academic achievement, sport and physical activity participation, and feelings …
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