Conference Sub-Themes
Presentations will be based on the following sub-themes:
- The Evolution of Youth: Contemporary Pressures
- Defining youth
- The role of youth today
- Child rights, integrity, the place of youth on the local, regional and international agenda
- Social, emotional, psychological pressures faced by youth today
- Parenting today’s youth
- Different parenting styles and their effects
- “Social parents”: counselors, guidance officers, teachers etc.
- The impact of parental problems on children
- Creating a ‘healthy’ environment for raising children
- Youth and Education
- Forms of formal education: early childhood, primary, secondary and tertiary
- The effects of the education system on youth
- Benefits of education
- Vocational education
- The role of YTEPP, CCC, Servol etc.
- Youth and Media
- Portrayal of youth in the media
- Effects of media exposure
- Youth and Lifestyle values
- Health related behaviours
- Sexuality
- Sports
- Music, art, drama
- Youth and Abuse
- Alcohol use
- Drug abuse
- Bullying
- Physical, emotional, psychological
- Child sexual abuse