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Parental Supervision: An Important Development in Adolescent Welfare
Although parental supervision is crucial to adolescents’ wellbeing, current Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) statistics have shown that it is a problem. The ability of parents to supervise and direct their children’s relationships, activities, and behaviors is known as parental monitoring, and it greatly lowers risky behaviors like substance misuse, inappropriate sexual activity, and criminality.
Factors Affecting This Pattern
Inadequate parental supervision is caused by a number of causes, including:
Problems with work-life balance: Parents frequently have hectic work schedules that make it difficult for them to properly watch over their kids.
Technological challenges: Teenagers can use the internet unsupervised, which exposes them to potentially dangerous content and risky online conduct.
Cultural and socioeconomic disparities: Parents’ ability to actively watch their children may be impacted by cultural and economic hardships.
Information That Backs Up This Concern
Inadequate parental supervision is associated with higher rates of risky conduct in teenagers, according to the YRBS. Teens who report a lack of parental supervision, for example, are more likely to use drugs, drink alcohol, and have risky sexual encounters (CDC, 2021). With 42% of kids in my state admitting to accessing potentially harmful content, the YRBS reports a startling rise in teens’ unsupervised internet use, highlighting the necessity of proactive parental involvement.
The Function of Nurses in Parental Monitoring
Nurses are essential in empowering and training parents to properly watch over their children. Among the specific actions are:
Parental Education: Nurses can offer materials on methods to improve communication and impose limits, like curfews and online activity monitoring.
Community programs: setting up support groups or workshops to encourage parental involvement and build a network of knowledgeable parents.
Teen Education: Working together with teenagers to promote self-awareness and responsible choices.
Sources of Assistance
Common Sense Media: Provides parents with resources and advice on how to monitor and control their kids’ online behavior. www.commonsensemedia.org is the website.
The Partnership to End Addiction: Offers parents information on monitoring and communication techniques to stop substance abuse. www.drugfree.org is the website.
Nurses can decrease risky behaviors and enhance teenagers’ general well-being by filling in the gaps in parental supervision, promoting healthier and better-informed communities.
Citations
Disease Control and Prevention Centers, 2021. Data Summary & Trends Report for the Youth Risk Behavior Survey, 2011–2021. The data/yrbs/index.htm page of https://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth
(n.d.) Common Sense Media. Parental resources. taken from the Commonsense Media website.
QUESTION
Every two years, the U.S. conducts a Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) detailing trends of youth risk behaviors occurring over the past 10 years. The most recent YRBS analysis describes several trends that are impacting the well-being of teens. Explore the link to the YRBS results provided in the topic Resources. After reviewing the data for your state, and based on the first letter of your first name, identify one trend and area of focus that is impacting teens:
S-V: Parental monitoring
Identify factors influencing this trend. Discuss data that validates this trend as a concern for adolescents today. Illustrate the nurse’s role and specific actions that the nurse can take in addressing this area of concern in adolescents. Include specific support and informational resources the nurse can provide to parents or teenagers (such as website or contact information).
Initial discussion question posts should be a minimum of 200 words and include at least two references cited using APA format. Responses to peers or faculty should be 100-150 words and include one reference. Refer to “RN-BSN DQ Rubric” and “RN-BSN Participation Rubric,” located in Class Resources, to understand the expectations for initial discussion question posts and participation posts, respectively.
American Association of Colleges of Nursing Core Competencies for Professional Nursing Education
This assignment aligns to AACN Core Competency 3.1.