Šota, Stanislav and Steiner Jelić, Sandra (2019) Odgoj i obrazovanje djece i mladih s poremećajima u ponašanju - izazov za evangelizaciju [Upbringing and Education of Children and Youth With Behavioral Disorders: a Challenge for Evangelization]. Riječki teološki časopis, 53 (1). pp. 37-56. ISSN 1849-0921
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The paper addresses behavioural disorders of children and youth as an old, but always-present problem. As less stigmatizing than the term „behavioural disorders“, the term „behavioural problems“ is also used, and includes the continuity of behaviour from risky behaviour to behavioural difficulties and finally to behavioural disorders. In wider sense, they point to risky behaviours such as unjustified school absenteeism, poor school success, lack of discipline in school and at home, defiance, disobedience, smoking, alcoholism, drug experimentation, inappropriate communication with peers, lack of empathy, excessive withdrawal, depression, self-aggressive behaviour such as self-harm, suicide. In the narrow sense, the terms indicate delinquent behaviour defined by regulations. Since some children, despite their exposure to numerous risk factors (genetic or biological factors, childhood personality, peer factors, school-related factors, risk factors in the family, community risk factors) do not develop behavioural disorders, attention is increasingly focused on research on protective factors. In addition to protective factors such as female sex, parental bonding, supporting family climate, family arrangements, positive temperament, healthy belief, prosociative orientation, social skills, intelligence, prosocial peer group, academic achievement, self-discipline and self-esteem, one can mention also the sense of meaning and of the future, as well as religious and spiritual commitment. The work focuses on some researches that show how religiosity acts as a protective factor in the development of behavioural disorders. Religious adolescents are less likely to take psychoactive substances, are less likely to associate with peers who use them, are less asocial, and family religiosity is positively associated with the amount of parental attachment and is in moderate negative correlation with delinquent behaviour. Society responses do not always follow the complexity and variability of behavioural disorder of children and youth. In this work, we are discussing the connection between Pope Francis’s exhortations with the above-mentioned problem, and we conclude that acquiring knowledge about the phenomenon of children and youth behavioural disorders increases the competence of providing answers and expands the Church’s ability to prevent the development of 58 Riječki teološki časopis, god. 27 (2019.), no. 1 behavioural disorders in children and youth. By analyzing the documents of St. John Paul II, Benedict XVI and Pope Francis the authors note that in none of them children and youth with behavioural disorders are explicitly mentioned in the context of evangelization and argue that an evangelization reaching out to those at the „peripheries“ should also include children and youth with behavioural disorders.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Behavioural Disorders, Children and Youth |
| Subjects: | B Mission theology/theory > Identity issues B Mission theology/theory > Evangelism/Proclamation of Gospel C Types of Christian Ministry > Youth ministry D World Christianity and Central Eastern Europe > Europe G Christian traditions/Denominations > Roman Catholic B Mission theology/theory > Theology of / ministry to children |
| Divisions: | Balkan countries Balkan countries > Croatia |
| Depositing User: | Speranca Tomin |
| Date Deposited: | 14 Oct 2021 16:48 |
| Last Modified: | 16 Oct 2021 16:51 |
| URI: | https://ceeamsprints.osims.org/id/eprint/2162 |
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