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Refocus Youths Limited (RYL) is a charity working with families and young people by raising aspirations and maximising the latter’s potentials.
RYL believes in the unlimited potential of every young person. Young people are ill equipped with the basic mental tools necessary to play life’s game, especially as they tend to be pressurized. This could be due to various reasons, the most influential being the developmental factors of adolescence. Adolescence, which is primarily characterised by inner struggle to cope with a variety of internal transformations manifesting in the individual teenager, is a gravely challenging period.
Refocus Youths Limited (RYL) is a charity working with families and young people by raising aspirations and maximising the latter’s potentials.
RYL believes in the unlimited potential of every young person. Young people are ill equipped with the basic mental tools necessary to play life’s game, especially as they tend to be pressurized. This could be due to various reasons, the most influential being the developmental factors of adolescence. Adolescence, which is primarily characterised by inner struggle to cope with a variety of internal transformations manifesting in the individual teenager, is a gravely challenging period.
For the helpless young person this situation is made worse by the changes family and society have been undergoing in modern times, which have inflicted enormous neglect and deprivation on these growing ones. Development takes place in different domains of the person. For the growing youth, the most significant of these happen in the physical, cognitive, emotional and social spheres.
Youths Transformation
Of all the transformations a young person must experience, social development, which itself is most dramatically impacted upon by the other changes, tends to be very problematic. This is because the young person at this stage is preoccupied with the ‘task’ of developing his or her personal identity and detests any form of relegation from peers. The young person basically wants ‘to belong’ and detests anything that will diminish his or her place with peers.
The young person is now conscious that he or she is subject to some kind of valuation by others, who go on to rate them as pretty or ugly, strong or lazy, brilliant or dull, an insider or outsider, good or bad person, etc. The young person now knows as well that such an assessment, which could never be assuredly objective, always ends with the subject of the evaluation being allocated a social ‘position’ that could permanently define him or her.
This attitude of social-typing has very serious emotional implications and often determines whether the young person’s outlook to life will be positive or negative.
Of all the transformations a young person must experience, social development, which itself is most dramatically impacted upon by the other changes, tends to be very problematic. This is because the young person at this stage is preoccupied with the ‘task’ of developing his or her personal identity and detests any form of relegation from peers. The young person basically wants ‘to belong’ and detests anything that will diminish his or her place with peers.
The young person is now conscious that he or she is subject to some kind of valuation by others, who go on to rate them as pretty or ugly, strong or lazy, brilliant or dull, an insider or outsider, good or bad person, etc. The young person now knows as well that such an assessment, which could never be assuredly objective, always ends with the subject of the evaluation being allocated a social ‘position’ that could permanently define him or her.
This attitude of social-typing has very serious emotional implications and often determines whether the young person’s outlook to life will be positive or negative.
Negative Social-Typing
The corresponding perception of negative social-typing and categorization produces and promotes reactions, which usually manifest in low self-esteem, unclear sense of values and indecisiveness of goals, and in the worst cases, the victim slides into intransigence, that is narrow-mindedness, and becomes an outlaw.
The corresponding perception of negative social-typing and categorization produces and promotes reactions, which usually manifest in low self-esteem, unclear sense of values and indecisiveness of goals, and in the worst cases, the victim slides into intransigence, that is narrow-mindedness, and becomes an outlaw.