Kylie's Blog

                                                         What's Wrong With You  This little story at the beginning of the article is about a drama teacher who loves her job and teaching teenage students. A father was not happy about the play production, Grease and wanted his son to be pulled from the play because he thought the person he was playing ' Kenicke' was sending the wrong message. The teacher had advised him that she was not going to do that, that his son has earned that part and was not going to take it away from him. The father didn't seem to happy about this. The father than asked the teacher "What's wrong with you," he didn't understand why the teacher enjoyed teenagers company so much. She would take her students on feel trips and out to dinners and plays. This conf...

 What did I already know?    To be honest I’ve only ever heard of the deficit approach. I’ve never been explained what it was and how it works. So this article was all knew to me cause I only had a small general concept about what and how the deficit approach is used.  What did I learn? I learned about what the  deficit approach was more in depth. I've learned that they focus in on programs targeted for specific problem behaviors. Some of the included focusing on preventing drug abuse, preventing teen pregnancy and reducing violence with adolescents. I learned that usually single-issued programs are very rare in being successful and/or reducing the problem behaviors overtime unfortunately. I also learned why deficit approaches often fail. Which is because we often have to focus so much on that one problem behavior that we forget about the person/people's basic developmental needs. The word resiliency I have also heard of before but never have I truly understood ...