Chrifou, R., Anselma, M., Christens, B. D., Israel, B. A., Jurkowski, J. M., Perkins, D. D., Zimmerman, M.A., & Altenburg, T. M. (2024). Actualizing child and adolescent empowerment in participatory action research for health promotion: A six-element framework. International Journal of Adolescence and Youth, 29(1), Art No: 2354907.
Through extensive mapping this study elucidates six elements that are important when designing a PAR study that strives to actualize child and adolescent empowerment. As explored in the article, these are: 1) Safeguarding the necessary resources; 2) Having high quality adult facilitation; 3) Enabling sense-making activities and 4) Investing in capacity building. These four elements make up an environment that may nourish children and adolescents’ social, emotional and cognitive development that may potentially lead to 5) Positive child and adolescent development and 6) Participatory competence.
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