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This book presents the results of researches conducted with children and youth at risk for over 20 years in Brazil. It addresses a series of topics related to children and youth living in poverty or in situations of social vulnerability, like family, sexual and dating violence; adolescent mothers and mothers who put their children for adoption; children and youth living in foster and institutional care; and adolescents involved in drug trafficking or incarcerated in juvenile detention centers. Building upon the Bioecological Theory of Human Development, this volume emphasizes the innovative knowledge about psychosocial development of vulnerable children and youth produced in Brazil and aims to present theoretical and methodological approaches developed especially for the countries of the Global South, in an attempt to overcome the scientific divide between the North and South. Northern research agenda defines as global the theories, methodologies, and application of knowledge on social policies and interventions. However, the contexts, histories, and cultural processes are essential for producing and applying research knowledge according to specific regional characteristics, organizations, and conditions. Human development is related to contextual features and cannot be directly imported from one place to another. Departing from these original theoretical and methodological approaches, the book also presents the results of evidence-based interventions, showing its effectiveness in specific contexts. All of this makes Vulnerable Children and Youth in Brazil – Innovative Approaches from the Psychology of Social Development a valuable tool for psychologists, educators, social scientists and public health professionals studying or working with children and youth at risk in different parts of the world, contributing to the understanding of human development in cultural context.      .

Psychology. --- Maternal and child health services. --- Childhood. --- Adolescence. --- Social groups. --- Developmental psychology. --- Developmental Psychology. --- Childhood, Adolescence and Society. --- Maternal and Child Health. --- Children --- Youth --- Child development --- Social conditions. --- Child study --- Development, Child --- Developmental biology --- Developmental psychobiology --- Child rearing --- Development --- Maternal and infant welfare. --- Infant welfare --- Infants --- Maternity welfare --- Child welfare --- Mothers --- Women --- Maternal health services --- Development (Psychology) --- Psychology --- Life cycle, Human --- Charities, protection, etc. --- Charities --- Teen-age --- Teenagers --- Puberty --- Childhood --- Kids (Children) --- Pedology (Child study) --- Youngsters --- Age groups --- Families

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This study constructs three indices to measure how well Brazil's young people are surviving their transition to adulthood. Youth development is difficult to quantify because of the multi-dimensionality of youth behavior. Most monitoring use individual indicators in specific sectors, making it difficult to track overall progress. The study adapts to the Brazilian case a methodology developed by Duke University to measure the well-being of U.S. children and youth. It uses readily available data to construct three indices for each Brazilian state based on 36 indicators encompassing the health, behavior, school performance, institutional connectedness, and socioeconomic conditions. The indices conclude that young people in the states of Santa Catarina and the Federal District are doing particularly well and those in Alagoas and Pernambuco are the worst off. While these rankings are expected to continue into the next generation, young people in other states have a brighter (Espiritu Santo) or more dismal (Rio Grande de Sul, Tocatins) future due to underinvestment in today's children. Still others (Rio de Janeiro) are underutilizing their resources so their young citizens are in a worse situation than they could be if the state were to invest more. The hope is that the methodology can be used in Brazil as it has been used in the United States to estimate the indices annually, thus allowing policymakers, young people, and society to track the well-being of youth in each state over time.

Adolescent Health --- Adolescents --- Age --- Aids --- Birth Weight --- Childhood To Adulthood --- Children --- Children and Youth --- Cigarette Smoking --- Education --- Families --- Gender --- Gender and Health --- Health Monitoring and Evaluation --- Health, Nutrition and Population --- Human Rights --- Illicit Drug Use --- Mortality --- Mortality Rate --- Overweight --- Parental Education --- Population Policies --- Primary Education --- Substance Use --- Teen Pregnancy --- Violence --- Youth --- Youth and Government --- Youth Development --- Youth Participation