Citation

Bradshaw CP, O'Brennan-Grimm LM, McNeely CA. New Dir. Child Adolesc. Dev. 2008; 2008(122): 19-32.

Affiliation

Johns Hopkins Center for the Prevention of Youth Violence at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2008, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1002/cd.226

PMID

19021248

Abstract

There is an increasing awareness that school failure and early school leaving are processes, rather than discrete events, that often co-occur and can have lasting negative effects on children's development. Most of the literature has focused on risk factors for failure and dropout rather than on the promotion of competencies that can increase youths' likelihood of successfully completing high school. This chapter applies the core competencies framework to the promotion of youths' success within the school environment. We conclude with a brief review of evidence-based prevention strategies that address the five competencies and identify avenues for future research.

Language: en