The experience of emerging adulthood among street-involved youth / Doug Magnuson, Mikael Jansson, and Cecilia Benoit.
| Author/creator |
Magnuson, Douglas |
| Other author/creator | Jansson, S. Mikael, 1959- |
| Other author/creator | Benoit, Cecilia M., 1954- |
| Other author/creator | Oxford University Press. |
| Format | Electronic and Book |
| Publication Info | New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021] |
| Description | xviii, 174 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Oxford Scholarship Online |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Oxford Scholarship Online Psychology |
| Subject(s) |
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| Series | Emerging adulthood series |
| Contents | Introduction -- Street-Involved Youth Talk: The Risky Business Study -- The Contribution and Complications of Instability in the Lives of Street-Involved Youth -- Self-Focus: Leaving Home and Becoming Street-Involved -- Self-Focus: Adjusting to the Streert -- Possibilities: Anticipating the Future -- NFA (No fixed address): Feeling-and Being-In-Between -- Identity: "Not Being Who I Want To Be." -- The Implications for Policy and Practice. |
| Abstract | "The Experience of Emerging Adulthood among Street-Involved Youth tells the story of young people who were street-involved from their early to mid-teens into their 20s, particularly their experiences of emerging adulthood while struggling towards young adulthood and independence. These youth experienced emerging and early adulthood earlier than other youth while living independently of guardians, detached from formal education, and working in the underground economy. After leaving their guardians they were choosing how to be different than their family, learning to cope with instability, enjoying and protecting their independence, and they experienced some satisfaction with their ability to manage. As one youth stated, "away from my family, I learned that I was not stupid." Their success was facilitated by harm-reduction services, like access to shelter and food, that gave them time to experiment with living independently and to practice being responsible for themselves and others. Later they begin to prefer non-street identities, and they began to think about their desires for the future; the distance between their current lives and those aspirations was the experience of feeling "in-between," and progress toward their aspirations was often complicated by past experiences of trauma, current experiences of exclusion, coping with substances, and the mismatch between their needs and available services"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2020039394 |
| ISBN | 9780190624934 (hardback) |
| ISBN | (epub) |
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