Art as Agency: Exploring Empowerment of At-Risk Youth

Autor/inn/en	Wallace-DiGarbo, Anne; Hill, David C.
Titel	Art as Agency: Exploring Empowerment of At-Risk Youth
Quelle	In: Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 23 (2006) 3, S.119-125 (7 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0742-1656
Schlagwörter	Intervention; High Risk Students; Art Activities; Empowerment; Middle School Students; Self Expression; Art Expression; Interpersonal Competence; Hispanic American Students; African American Students; Truancy; Program Effectiveness + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Problemschüler; Künstlerische Tätigkeit; Middle school; Middle schools; Student; Students; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Ausdruck; Interpersonale Kompetenz; Hispanic; Hispanic Americans; Hispanoamerikaner; Studentin; African Americans; Afroamerikaner; Schulabsentismus; Schulschwänzen; Schulverweigerung
Abstract	This report describes an art-based intervention program with at-risk youth that was inspired by the Project Self-Discovery model (Milkman, Wanberg, & Robinson, 1996). Twelve middle-school students from a small city in a mid-Atlantic state participated in the program. The program goals included making art in order to empower the participants through self-expression and community building. Complete data were obtained for six of the participants. The probabilities (not chance) that the program produced positive trends in change ranged from 70% to 80%. Two dimensions--attitudes and psychological adjustment--reached the highest probabilities (p = 0.078). The small sample size and the brief nature of the intervention (10 hours total) limited both the ability to generalize and the statistical power of the analysis. (Author).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10