Examining Adolescent Reckless Behavior Across Cultures

The Adolescent Reckless Behavior Crisis

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Chapter 1: Introduction

(Scope of Reckless Behaviour)

Most teenagers in their adolescent stage often push the boundaries of tolerable behaviour. Some engage in extremely reckless behaviour such as drug abuse and dangerous driving. Shader (2004) writes that adolescence bears a heightened reckless potential in comparison to other periods of development and the tenacity of the potential varies with culture and time. There have been several studies on the various forms of reckless behavior, the efforts to determine the underlying factors across the range of reckless behaviour variation, but not among regional and Indigenous Australian youths, thus underscoring the need for cultural competency in support services.

(Aboriginal adolescents and risk)

Young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians (referred to hereafter as ‘Indigenous’)may have increased feelings of anxiety, shame, and distrust because…