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This article is based on the recognition of the importance of Positive Youth Development (PYD) as a concept, while also highlighting its still relatively scarce dissemination and application in sporting contexts, particularly in Portuguese-speaking countries. In this sense, seeking to promote its dissemination and to suggest possible research and intervention in this field, an analysis was conducted of what has been published on the subject in major international sporting science and social psychology journals, in relation to four key issues: i ) how the DPJ movement began ii) the PYD movement in Sport iii) major PYD programmes in Sport, and iv) how to evaluate the impact of PYD programmes in Sport. Basically, what emerges from this analysis is the fact that while PYD shares some principles and objectives in common with Positive Psychology, it is an independent movement that is potentially very useful in the development of young people, particularly in sporting contexts. Moreover, over the past years, there has been a noticeable increase in the number of programmes in this field that have achieved promising results, although more robust sophisticated methodologies and instruments must be developed to assess its real impact on the development of young people as well as helping to offer a better insight into the mechanisms through which PYD is processed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper discusses possible relations between the strategies of conflict resolution and the construction of youth purpose, through analysis of the influence of feelings and emotions in thought. It was investigated how the emotions and feelings related to the interests and concerns of youth configure in reasoning. Data were collected by semi-structured interviews conducted with 20 youth (20-24 years old), academic students of Paraná state. From the analysis, based on theory of Organizing Models of Thinking, relations were identified between the nature of the interests and concerns of youth and the feelings and emotions. The results show that the construction of youth purpose may be related to how young people perceive conflict, so that considerations are drawn about the inseparability between affect and cognition, and implications to educational processes aimed at youth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The concept of vulnerability is being discussed in the public health area as a potential tool toward the transformation of the health practices for allowing an articulation individual-community. Understanding health as a process of subjectivation determined by social, cultural and historical contexts, this article aims to approach the question children and adolescents in street situation on the basis of the concept of civil vulnerability, using the theoretical background presented by Robert Castel. This author understands the social marginalization lived by different individuals and social groups in a dynamic form, determined by the association of work and social insertion. As refers to children and adolescents in street situation, we believe that they are reflecting a process of intensified vulnerability (culminating in disaffiliation) to which thousands of Brazilian families are subject due to the extreme social inequalities in our country. We hope that our theoretical discussion will be able to contribute to the development of a theoretical reference in public health and to the planning and implementation of health actions directed to this population.

The discovery of sexuality by adolescent girls living in the streets generally involves lack of knowledge about their own bodies, often resulting in risk behaviors for sexually transmitted diseases and pregnancy. This study aimed to identify the meanings ascribed to motherhood by teenage girls with a history of living in the streets and who chose to assume the care for their children, off the streets. Based on a qualitative methodology, data were collected from the adolescent mothers at a nongovernmental shelter and analyzed according to the content analysis modality. The results were discussed using the category "new life: mother & child", showing that the adolescents ascribed a positive meaning to motherhood, with the child seen as both a "savior" from the mother's certain death on the streets and a repository for the mother's expectations for a better future. The article concludes by analyzing motherhood as an opportunity for establishing new ways of being in (and relating to) the world, with the construction of this motherhood process as a potentially fertile ground for intervention by health professionals.

The paper focuses on the child in a street situation, through the address by a group of school-age children who used to frequent two public São Paulo city shelters. The purpose was to apprehend its representation on its reality. The data, gathered by means of interviews, were organized and analyzed according to the method of the Analysis of Contents. The thematic theories detached from the speech transcript were grouped into meaningful experiences for the children, among which "the street". The synthesis of the analyzed categories showed clearly that violence permeates the lives of children of/in the street, resulting in experiences that restrict their full development. The street represents a refuge to the child coming from a needy family and also to the one who has a history of abuse from its family.

The paper focuses reports of homeless children about their experience of living in shelters. It's a part of one research of which purpose was to allow the street children themselves, on São Paulo city, to express their representation about their life's trajectory. The data, gathered by individual interviews, were organise according to the method of the Analysis of Contents and principles of the theory of the Social Representation. The categories detached from the speech transcript, were grouped into meaningful experiences for the children, among which "the shelters". The analyse of this category showed clearly that the lack of a personal and affectionate attendance in the shelters contributes to the children choosing to stay in the streets.

This study aimed at reflecting on the sexuality for adolescents living on the street, based on their point of view. Authors used a qualitative approach in order to identify general aspects related to the sexuality of adolescents living on the street in Goiânia. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews and participant observation. Results showed that these adolescents consider the sexuality reduced to the sexual act, and that even on the streets they are not deprived of it. Also, the prevention is a practically non-existent attitude in their daily life. Thus, authors pointed out the importance of nurses commitment to that group through health education and promotion.

This articicle is a part of a research focusing on the relationship among child-prostitution, health-sickness-process linked to sexuality and violence; the three categories found in the environment of street girls. This paper, however, only deals with health-sickness-process linked to sexuality revealed by the girls themselves. After the considerations about the research as a whole and about sexuality in general, the street girls are characterized in their social scenery. Within that scenery, data about sexuality are analysed. Based on this analysis, the author concluded, among other aspects, that the education is necessary to enable Public Health to focus on this matter.