Quandaries for Promoting Health, Safety and Wellbeing of Young Adults
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The U.Va. Center to Promote Effective Youth Development
Quandaries for Promoting Health, Safety and Wellbeing of Young
Adults
Patrick Tolan Ph.D.
Youth-Nex Center, University of Virginia
National Academies of Science Workshop
May 7-8,2013
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The U.Va. Center to Promote Effective Youth Development
Notable Characteristics
• Continuing but not Simply Linear Brain Development
• Consolidate/Choose Life Course Trajectory-Shifting Orderliness
• Heightened Risk-Serious/Dangerous Substance Use
• Morbidity-Accidents & Suicides, Chronic Disease • Before and After 25 –Important Inflection Point• Who and Where Is Good Information-Matrix
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Prizing Independence and CertaintyPlease Complete One or More of the Following:
– Education – Employment/Vocational Choice– Financial Independence– Marriage (or something like it)– Have Children (or promise of it)
• With few mistakes• Not too soon• For the rest of your life
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All development is the same (there are universals)
Meaningful subgroup differences occur
Each person’s development is unique
The Developmental Theory/Quandary
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Need Basic Developmental-Contextual Understanding
• Diversity of Opportunity/Support Structure
• Normative vs. Health• Self-Regulation, Responsibility,
Connection, Identity• Living in Changing World
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Missing
• Sound Critically Formulated Framework• Positive/Capability Approach• Changing Nature of Work• The Good Life instead of the Right Life• Transition Rather Than Achievement of
Independence• Social Class Difference- Sharpening
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Swamp of Beliefs/Conjecture:
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Immediate Opportunities• ACA• Reanalyze Longitudinal Studies/Archive Data
Sets• Health Behavior as Critical Responsibility-
Protocols for Young Adults • Models (International/Domestic)• Media Use for Self-Management, Connection,
Health, etc.---Divide
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Multiple Studies
• Multiple Cohort Historical Tracing• Cross-National Comparisons• Longitudinal Trajectory/Pathway Studies• Collapsed Cohort Age-Graded Comparisons• Intervention Studies• Cost/Service System Analyses
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Research is Our Best Hope for Good Policy
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The facts are coming! The facts are coming!