Canadian Journal of Family and Youth (CJFY)
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Stumbling Along, Walking on Eggshells and Vicious Circles: What Happens while Families Wait for Youth Substance Use Treatment
No full textYouth substance use is a serious problem that has immediate and long-term impact on individuals, families, and society. Adolescent substance experimentation that develops into abuse foreshadows long-term problems, such as adult addiction, co-occurring mental illness, declined or abandoned academic careers, and other individual and interpersonal harms. Early and effective intervention can mitigate the harmful effects on the lives of young people, their families, and their communities. Intervention may not be accessible, however, for adolescents and/or their families when they seek help, and wait lists are common. Waiting for treatment for substance use is the focus of this study, and in particular, the experience of waiting and its associated impacts on the youth’s substance use, involvement with police, running away, mental health and on the family unit. 118 parents of youth who use substances participated in a mixed methods study at Pine River Institute, a long-term residential youth treatment center. Clinical implications are discussed
Book Review of: Evans, C. (2016). I Promised Not to Tell: Raising a Transgender Child. Ontario: Cheryl B. Evans.
No full textBook Review of: Chapman, Marina. (2013). The Girl with No Name: The True Story of a Girl Who Lived with Monkeys. Edinburgh: Greystone Books.
No full textBook Review of: Evans, C. (2016). I Promised Not to Tell: Raising a Transgender Child. Ontario: Cheryl B. Evans.
No full textBook Review of: Harrison, D., and Albanese, P. (2016). Growing Up in Armyville: Canada’s Military Families during the Afghanistan Mission. Waterloo: Wilfred Laurier University Press.
No full textAutism Spectrum Disorder and Maternal Employment Barriers: A Comprehensive Gender-Based Inquiry
No full textThis paper presents a systematic literature review of the autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and maternal employment disruption in order to explore what mothers of these children do using a critical lens. Although a broad range of peer-reviewed scholarly publications exist on many topics related to ASD, specific family issues such as the potential employment challenges of the maternal employment of children with ASD, have been explored in less detail until recently. ASD has generated much discussion and research. We report the most recent data over the last decade.Through a comprehensive literature review, we identify a range of papers on the topic of ASD and parental employment disruption. This project, then, highlights relevant international Canadian and internationals research findings, including the United States, China, the United Kingdom (UK) and Sweden. The review and its critical commentary show how structures which act to exclude children with ASD cause parents to seek employment adjustments in order to manage their complex situations. Parents, especially mothers of children with ASD, have fewer employment opportunities. This situation has substantial economic impact on families. This trend extends beyond preschool child care as obtaining capable and reliable child care support is an ongoing issue that exists well into the school years—and beyond. Supportive, accommodating, and especially flexible employment situations make employment possible, at times, for mothers of children with ASD
Book Review of: Newton, Michael. (2004). Savage Girls and Wild Boys: A History of Feral Children. New York: Picador Publishing.
No full textBook Review of: O’Sullivan, Patrick and Joyce, Gare (2015). Breaking Away: A Harrowing True Story of Resilience, Courage, and Triumph. Toronto: HarperCollins.
No full textInfluence of Social Media on Sexual Behaviour of Youth in Kwara State, Nigeria: Implications for Counselling Practice
No full textThis study investigated the influence of social media on the sexual behaviour of youth in Kwara State. Descriptive research design was adopted for the study. A total of 395 youth participated in the study. One research question was raised while three null hypotheses were formulated and tested at 0.05 level of significance. The instrument used for data collection for this study was a researcher-designed questionnaire entitled “Influence of Social Media Questionnaire” (ISMQ). The findings revealed that social media has considerable influence on the sexual behaviour of youth in Kwara State. Social media leads students to the act of sending erotic messages, watching pornographic films and movies, and also increases risky sexual behaviour such as masturbation. There were no significant differences in the influence of social media on sexual behaviour of youth in Kwara State based on gender, age and university attended. It was therefore recommended that counsellors should expose students to the danger inherent in negative uses of social media and analyze the possible result of proper usage of social media. Counsellors should also provide information specifically on the safe and respectful use of technology, as well as consequences of the negative use of social media to students of different genders, ages and universities attended