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Responding to Teenagers' Emotional Meltdowns: How Outward Bound Instructors Facilitate Development of Anxiety Management Skills
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Larson, Reed W.; Orson, Carolyn N.; McGovern, Gina – Journal of Adolescent Research, 2023
Rates of intense anxiety among teenagers have risen dramatically, a major concern. Outward Bound (OB), a wilderness expedition program that promotes learning through challenge experiences, is found to help youth decrease anxiety. To understand how program staff support this learning, we asked 30 OB instructors to describe their successful work…
Descriptors: Adventure Education, Outdoor Education, Adolescents, Youth
Helping Teens Overcome Anxiety Episodes in Project Work: The Power of Reframing
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Orson, Carolyn N.; Larson, Reed W. – Journal of Adolescent Research, 2021
Overwhelming challenges in youth program projects (e.g., arts, leadership, science, technology, engineering, and mathematics [STEM]) can create intense anxiety for adolescents that disrupts engagement in their work. This study examines how experienced program leaders respond to these episodes to help youth overcome anxiety. We conducted…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Student Projects, STEM Education, Adolescents
Connecting Youth to High-Resource Adults: Lessons from Effective Youth Programs
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Sullivan, Patrick J.; Larson, Reed W. – Journal of Adolescent Research, 2010
Adolescents benefit from contact with high-resource community adults, but intergenerational obstacles make these interactions difficult, fragile, and rare. This qualitative research investigated the success of seven, primarily urban, leadership, and arts programs that attempted to facilitate these interactions within their programming. Program…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Youth Programs, Adolescents, Urban Areas