juniorologist

Juniorologist

– noun \jü· nyer · ä · lə · jist\

1. Prevention specialist in the study of juniorology [see jun·ior·o·lo·gy^*]; researcher of efficacious

strategies for risk prevention in vulnerable youth populations whose tendency to be involved

with risk activity can result in risk behavior; ...............................................

2. Strategist with a knowledge of youth risk behavior, implementing interventions with the

goal to effectively increase protective factor activities in youth environments as a prevention

model for adolescents who have an inclination to engage in risk factor activities.

3. Knowledgeable health promotion leader serving to achieve conditions that discourage risk

factor activity within school environments; an equitable instructor who provokes awareness

through protective factor engagement by advocating favorable lesson opportunities for

responsibility in educational settings; an affable authority figure for students as one who will

encourage impartiality and objectively teach the obligations of good citizenship and peer

respect.

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^* juniorology

n. \jü· nyer · ä · lə · jē\

A study of adolescent populations to determine those varied attitudes, which are behind

the growing trend for youth to participate in a dangerous array of risk activities in the absence

of protective factor stimulus.