Assignment task: At-Risk Youth (Chapter 3).
Define and quantify at-risk youth. What are the primary predisposing risk factors? Explain, describe, and define those factors. How are at-risk youth identified? Please be specific. Please be sure to include some of the most severe and most common forms of high-risk behaviors. Prevention strategies are one way of dealing with factors that present risk to children and adolescents. What is the argument that is being debated in this essay? Please define and identify the advantages (pros) and disadvantages (cons) of various prevention strategies. Which side of the argument do you support? Offer details as to why you chose the pro or the con of the argument.