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Flashpoint: An Innovative Media Literacy Intervention For High‐Risk Adolescents
Author(s) -
MOORE JANE,
DECHILLO NEAL,
NICHOLSON BARBARA,
GENOVESE ANGELA,
SLADEN STEPHANIE
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
juvenile and family court journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.155
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 1755-6988
pISSN - 0161-7109
DOI - 10.1111/j.1755-6988.2000.tb00019.x
Subject(s) - formative assessment , intervention (counseling) , psychology , media literacy , prejudice (legal term) , juvenile delinquency , economic justice , clinical psychology , medical education , developmental psychology , medicine , social psychology , psychiatry , pedagogy , political science , law
This paper describes the development and formative evaluation of a media literacy, media based intervention for high‐risk adolescents. The program described, Flashpoint, was developed to (1) moderate the influence of media presentations of violence, substance abuse and prejudice on adolescents; and t (2) teach participants cognitive skills which would enable them to resist impulses to engage in behavior involving violence, substance abuse or prejudice. The evaluation described studied the pilot testing of the program with three groups of adolescents (N=33) involved in the juvenile justice system: adolescents in a diversion program (first time, nonviolent offenders); adolescents on probation; and adolescents in residential custody of the Department of Youth Services. Qualitative findings are reviewed in detail.