La spiritualité comme boussole : accompagner les jeunes vers l’épanouissement

Citation

Ebstyne King, P., & Tiret, F. (2022). La spiritualité comme boussole: Accompagner les jeunes vers l’épanouissement: In Les spiritualités dans le travail socio-éducatif (pp. 91–116). Érès. https://doi.org/10.3917/eres.verba.2022.01.0091

Abstract

As our world and cultures change radically, many conventional civil, social and religious institutions that served to forge social bonds in the Western world are eroding. Digital platforms such as Facebook, Snapchat and Instagram are poised to represent the authority figure, a role previously reserved for embodied organizations. Due to this development, young people grow up with networks where honesty, convictions, respect for privacy, responsibility and support are often lacking. Consequently, many young people build themselves through contradictory narratives, without a clear vision of the world or a secure sense of belonging. This lack of anchoring and connection poses many challenges in constructing identity, meaning and life goals–which are among the important elements of adolescent development. This is why many youth professionals are not surprised to see that rates of anxiety and depression among adolescents have never been as high as at the dawn of the third decade of the 21st century. Yet amid these alarming rates, a growing body of empirical research indicates that spirituality–an often overlooked aspect of contemporary life–can be an important resource for healthy youth development (Hardy et al., 2019; King et al. Boyatzis, 2015).

Copyright

Year: Jan. 27, 2022

Holder: Cairn.info

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3917/eres.verba.2022.01.0091