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Dilemmas of Practice: Challenges to Program Quality Encountered by Youth Program Leaders

American journal of community psychology, 2010-06, Vol.45 (3-4), p.338-349 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Society for Community Research and Action 2010 ;2010 Society for Community Research and Action ;Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2010 ;ISSN: 0091-0562 ;EISSN: 1573-2770 ;DOI: 10.1007/s10464-010-9307-z ;PMID: 20300824 ;CODEN: AJCPCK

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Title:
Dilemmas of Practice: Challenges to Program Quality Encountered by Youth Program Leaders
Author: Larson, Reed W. ; Walker, Kathrin C.
Subjects: Adolescence ; Adolescent ; Adolescent Development ; After school programs ; Behavioral Science and Psychology ; Children & youth ; Clinical Psychology ; Community and Environmental Psychology ; Development Programs ; Health Psychology ; Humans ; Interpersonal Relations ; Original Paper ; Personality ; Personality and Social Psychology ; Practitioner dilemmas ; Program Evaluation ; Program quality ; Psychology ; Public Health ; Quality Control ; Quality of education ; Schools - organization & administration ; Schools - standards ; Youth ; Youth development ; Youth practice ; Youth work
Is Part Of: American journal of community psychology, 2010-06, Vol.45 (3-4), p.338-349
Description: To create and sustain high quality youth development programs it is important to understand the challenging situations and dilemmas that emerge in program leaders’ daily work with youth. In this research the experiences of leaders in 12 programs were followed over a 2–9 month period, which led to the identification of 250 dilemma situations. Qualitative analyses identified 5 categories and 12 subcategories of dilemmas that reflected distinct types of considerations (e.g., youth’s personalities, relationships with the community). The analyses also found that the experienced leaders in the study typically responded to these dilemmas in ways that were youth-centered and that balanced multiple considerations. It is argued that researchers need to go beyond identifying features of high quality programs, and more fully examine how effective leaders create and sustain high quality in response to the challenging situations of practice.
Publisher: Boston: Springer US
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 0091-0562
EISSN: 1573-2770
DOI: 10.1007/s10464-010-9307-z
PMID: 20300824
CODEN: AJCPCK
Source: MEDLINE
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Dilemmas of Practice: Challenges to Program Quality Encountered by Youth Program Leaders

Society for Community Research and Action 2010 ;2010 Society for Community Research and Action ;Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2010 ;ISSN: 0091-0562 ;EISSN: 1573-2770 ;DOI: 10.1007/s10464-010-9307-z ;PMID: 20300824 ;CODEN: AJCPCK

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