Istokwa: A case study of run-away adolescents based at the reception and action center

• Main Authors: Pena-Francia, Cherry M., Lumidao, Marie Antoniette M., Sales, Jennifer
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 1997
• Subjects: Runaway youth > Case studies; Inmates of institutions; Adolescents
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_bachelors/16333
• Institution: De La Salle University

This research study deals with run-away adolescents who are currently under the care of the Reception and Action Center. This study focuses on fifteen cases of adolescent run-aways and tries to study the common reasons of these adolescents for running-away from home. This research study analyzes the psychological, social, and economic factors that contribute to the adolescents' decision to run-away from home. Psychological factors such as low self-esteem and the need to assert one's independence are tackled in this study. Social factors such as peer pressure and the presence of a relationship with the opposite sex is also discussed in this research. The economic factors that were discussed in this research paper are: the need to escape from the family's financial difficulties and wanting to have economic control, for those who have experienced working already. The researchers also tried to assess the Reception and Action Center's programs for the run-away adolescents and how their programs work for the adolescents. The researchers made use of in-depth interviews with the adolescent respondents, non-participant observation process in observing the adolescents behaviors and key-informant interviews with two of the social officers working at the Reception and Action Center.