Building Resilience After School for Early Adolescents in Urban Poverty: Open Trial of Leaders @ Play
Building Resilience After School for Early Adolescents in Urban Poverty: Open Trial of Leaders @ Play
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DOI:
10.1007/s10488-014-0608-7
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发表时间:
2015-11-01
影响因子:
2.6
通讯作者:
Reitz, Kristin
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作者:
Frazier, Stacy L.;Dinizulu, Sonya Mathies;Reitz, Kristin
Leaders @ Play is a park after-school program for urban middle school youth designed to leverage recreational activities for social emotional learning. Mental health and park staff co-facilitated sports and games to teach and practice problem solving, emotion regulation, and effective communication. Additional practice occurred during multi-family groups and summer internships as junior camp counselors. We examined feasibility and promise via an open trial (n = 3 parks, 46 youth, 100 % African American, 100 % low-income, 59 % female, M = 13.09 years old). Improvements in social skills and reductions in problem behaviors lend support to after school programs as a space for mental health promotion.