Following the American Psychological Association’s Guidelines
As the world hurtles towards the 22nd century, the disoriented, uninterested youth is being tagged by newer names that seem to define them in boundaries so restricted that instead of helping the way ward one, born post 2000 it is leading to even more disenchantment and a large unsatisfied group that today is called Alienated ones. America the country with dreams is more or less becoming one with the piped dream where it is in increasingly becoming unaware of the social and emotional challenges that its youth face from rampant drugs, cynicisms, emotional anguish and disconnect.
The school being where most of the adolescence is spent has become the breeding ground for alienation with absolutely no social connect between teachers, counselors, students thereby contributing to the segregation on micro culture of America.
Some of the solutions given by various qualified authority were
- Community involved projects, students teaching other student to foster brotherhood among same age groups.
- Manipulating young people with no goals or negativity to more positive influences and giving them something serious and more involving to do.
- Working in local government serving agency would make the adolescent think out of the box as to how best to serve the low income group.
- Providing assistance in day care centers and senior citizens group.
- Decreasing school attendance in a manner so as to avoid humiliation and belittling and bullying of a certain section of high schoolers'.
- Post modern schools where older students are involved in the activities of the younger group.
- Learning programs that teach more of listening and paying attention to the verbal and emotional need of the youth rather than physicality of books and notes.
- A more cognitive learning experience that involves thinking on today’s guidelines and not on studies of the yore.
Hence the study gave the reasons and summarizes the solution to be taken up to avoid alienation of youth in today’s society.
Reference List
Mackay, J. (1978). Youth Alienation in Post-Modern Society. The High School Journal, 61(8), 353-367. Retrieved November 16, 2014, from http://www.jstor.org/stable/40365205 .
