School dropout: causes, effects, prevention and intervention strategies (original) (raw)

2010, Analele stiintifice ale Universitatii „Al. I. Cuza” din Iasi (serie nouă), Psihologie.

There are few published articles analyzing school dropout and offering a broad imagine of the phenomenon. Most of these studies are focused on testing concrete programs of intervention or on meta-analyzing the efficiency of several programs applied on students with high risk of dropout. The article above may be framed in a series of scientific preoccupations materialized in a research project focused on investigating school violence situations in the Romanian schools and its relations with sports activities and school dropout . The article contains a synthesis about types, causes, effects of school dropout and, possible prevention/intervention strategies. Thus, we make a short review of the risk factors in school dropout on the basis of the main behavioural models which may lead to school failure. We, also, try to analyze the personal and social effects of the dropout and, offer eloquent examples of specific intervention strategies. The three main categories of intervention in school dropout, identified by Martin et al. (2002): unspecific, specific and individualized intervention are detailed and reinforced with examples of the most efficient and frequent intervention programs used by educators and counsellors.

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