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Young people - Coggle Diagram
Young people
Background
Life stage
: :check:Problems
Between Childhood & adulthood
Psychology
: "Adolescence" => Describe + analyse ⇢ Bio, psy, phy, emotional and sexual
Sociologists
3 Transitions
School-to-work
Domestic
: independent of
original families
Housing
:
Home
independent of parents
1970s
Traditional youth transition
16
: Leave school
Employment
: :check: saving + work exp. + partnership
:check:
Financial
basis + intimate
relationship
=> Form own
family
21st
century
"
Extended
transition"
Edu: ⬆️Time
Family dependency:
Longer
Parenting:
Later
Housing:
extended
period
"
Fractured
transition"
Leave school: :red_cross:Training / Job
Leave home: :red_cross:Own stable home
Compare
Mid-1970s: UK
Leave school at 16:
60
%
21st century
Leave school at 16:
20
%
10%: Vocational training programs
10%: :red_cross:Training => Employment
Features
New Labour:
"Connexions Service"
Age
: 13 - 19 => :check: personal adviser
Service
1) Connexions Service - Career
2) Health agencies - Drug prevention & advice & teenager pregnancy
3) Education - Edu welfare & edu institutions
4) Voluntary org. - Homeless youth
3 Types
service users
1)
Information
- Advice / guidance
Edu / careers / personal development
2)
Risk
at disengagement
:check:Problems: Edu / career / emotion
In-depth guidance +
help
3) Criminal records / Suffer serious problems
Teenager pregnancy
Intensive + specialist services
HK gov:
"Youth Employment and Training Programme (YEPT)"
Age
15 - 24
Service
1) Career guidance
2) Job-search
3) Pre-employment training
4) On-the-job training
:check:Allowance
Criticism
Emphasis
employment >
Unstable
conditions
:red_cross:
Change
/ help