2.4 High Risk Youth - Alcohol and other Drug Use According to providing services to adolescents who are using legal and/or Jon Rose (2000), illegal drugs raises a range of specific issues. The developmental challenges of this stage requires those engaged in their care to apply age appropriate strategies rather than simply thinking of this diverse group as mini adults. Young people who come to the attention of health and welfare professionals often use drugs as a means of coping with situational and emotional distress. While this drug use may also exacerbate problems, practical assistance in areas such as accommodation, family, recreation, financial, vocation and educational support will most often need to precede or coincide with any drug use management. Linking drug-related effects and interventions to goals identified by the client will enhance the possibility of change. This is the same effect with Kawempe division’s case. 2.5 Challenges of Drug Abuse Mainstream and Sub cultural Explanations of Drug Use Although mainstream theories of deviance are largely based on the experiences of nonminority youth, they constitute an essential point of departure for conceptualizing minority adolescent deviance. theories differ on the factors they emphasize as central, but most agree on the types that must be included. Most theories view delinquency as a reaction to disadvantaged status in terms of ethnicity or class (Rutter and Giller 1983; Braithewaite 1981; Datesman et al.1975) that adversely influences individuals’ options in life. Social psychological processes have been posited to link disadvantaged status to deviance. An important example is strain theory (Cloward and Ohlin 1960; Simon and Gagnon 1976; Elliott and Voss 1974), which emphasizes discrepancies between achievement aspirations and expectations as the motivational mechanism for deviance. In some theories, a social environment tolerant of crime and drug use is viewed as contributing to adolescents engaging in deviant behavior (Conger 1971; Shaw and McKay 1942; Smith 1983). An antisocial environment may provide opportunities for involvement in deviant behavior
2.4 High Risk Youth - Alcohol and other Drug Use According to Jon Rose (2000), providing services to adolescents who are using legal and/or illegal drugs raises a range of specific issues. The developmental challenges of this stage requires those engaged in their care to apply age appropriate strategies rather than simply thinking of this diverse group as mini adults. Young people who come to the attention of health and welfare professionals often use drugs as a means of coping with situational and emotional distress. While this drug use may also exacerbate problems, practical assistance in areas such as accommodation, family, recreation, financial, vocation and educational support will most often need to precede or coincide with any drug use management. Linking drug-related effects and interventions to goals identified by the client will enhance the possibility of change. This is the same effect with Kawempe division’s case. 2.5 Challenges of Drug Abuse Mainstream and Sub cultural Explanations of Drug Use Although mainstream theories of deviance are largely based on the experiences of nonminority youth, they constitute an essential point of departure for conceptualizing minority adolescent deviance. theories differ on the factors they emphasize as central, but most agree on the types that must be included. Most theories view delinquency as a reaction to disadvantaged status in terms of ethnicity or class (Rutter and Giller 1983; Braithewaite 1981; Datesman et al.1975) that adversely influences individuals’ options in life. Social psychological processes have been posited to link disadvantaged status to deviance. An important example is strain theory (Cloward and Ohlin 1960; Simon and Gagnon 1976; Elliott and Voss 1974), which emphasizes discrepancies between achievement aspirations and expectations as the motivational mechanism for deviance. In some theories, a social environment tolerant of crime and drug use is viewed as contributing to adolescents engaging in deviant behavior (Conger 1971; Shaw and McKay 1942; Smith 1983). An antisocial environment may provide opportunities for involvement in deviant behavior
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