Cdc's Impact On Adolescence
The CDC outlines a comprehensive list of adolescent risk behaviors that range from body piercing, cyber bullying, tobacco use, and spring break binges to drug use, STD transmission, pregnancy, gang violence, and suicide (CDC, 2016). So it is difficult to say exactly how all risky adolescent behavior will or will not impact adulthood without narrowing down the specific behavior and addressing it within the context of the individual adolescent; as resilience differs from person-to-person. Certainly behavior that results in legal intervention and lasting compromised health represents the most likely malefactors to follow a youth into adulthood. Some experiences could however, increase resiliance or future intentional parenting.
However, here
is a real-life example. The community I live in is heavy in defense contracting, so much so that even janitors must be able to achieve security clearance. Thus, the local FBI representatives remind young people that when they conduct security clearance background checks for employment, they go back a minimum of 5-years and scrutinize everything from school conduct records to Facebook postings.
How Social Organizations Can Help
A great deal of research asserts that “factors found to have a meaningful impact on the reduction of risk behavior in the adolescent population were 1) students perceiving a satisfactory relationship with their parents, and 2) parents successfully communicating their expectations regarding…behavior…to their children” (Brent V. Nelson, 2016, 1999).
Therefore, one can maintain that organizations that foster quality parent-child relationships and enable parents to communicate effectively with their children will best fulfill their mission to help adolescents avoid risky behavior.
However, here
is a real-life example. The community I live in is heavy in defense contracting, so much so that even janitors must be able to achieve security clearance. Thus, the local FBI representatives remind young people that when they conduct security clearance background checks for employment, they go back a minimum of 5-years and scrutinize everything from school conduct records to Facebook postings.
How Social Organizations Can Help
A great deal of research asserts that “factors found to have a meaningful impact on the reduction of risk behavior in the adolescent population were 1) students perceiving a satisfactory relationship with their parents, and 2) parents successfully communicating their expectations regarding…behavior…to their children” (Brent V. Nelson, 2016, 1999).
Therefore, one can maintain that organizations that foster quality parent-child relationships and enable parents to communicate effectively with their children will best fulfill their mission to help adolescents avoid risky behavior.