SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY
How can a student assistance team foster positive youth social development?
"The Social Development Strategy emphasizes two key protective factors: bonding
to pro-social family, school and peers and clear standards or norms for behavior.
The strategy identifies three processes that promote these protective factors:
- Opportunities for involvement in productive pro-social roles;
- Skills to be successfully involved in these roles; and
- Consistent systems of recognition and reinforcement for pro-social involvement.
These factors protect against the development of conduct problems, school misbehavior,
truancy and drug abuse."
Student assistance team members can assess risk and protective factors that influence a young person referred to the team. In addition, the team members can utilize the three strategies outlined above to guide their action planning and referral processes.
RESOURCES
- Social Development Strategy
- State Education Resource Group
- Risk and Protective Factors of Child Delinquency
- Risk and Protective Factors in Drug Abuse Prevention, National Institute on Drug
Abuse
- Risk and Protective Factors for Suicide Prevention, Suicide Prevention Resource
Center
- Risk and Protective Factors for Youth Violence Fact Sheet, National Youth Violence
Prevention Resource Center
- Preventing Drug Abuse Among Children and Adolescents: A Research-Based Guide for Parents, Educators and Community Leaders