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Decision-making is considered to be a critical component of various SEL/SEAD frameworks. For example, it is one of five competencies in the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) framework. Although teaching students adaptive decision-making is not a brief intervention, given its central importance, it has a place in this text. In this chapter, age differences in decision-making and decision-making competence are discussed. A particular interest in regard to decision-making is adolescent decision-making. Adults are concerned about risky decision-making on the part of some students. A solid understanding of adolescent decision-making may be helpful. Adolescents tend to make decisions differently as compared to either children or adults. They are influenced by their reward sensitivity and how they value options. They are influenced by peers in regard to risky decision-making but also in regard to prosocial decision-making. A focus in this chapter is how educators can use research on students’ decision-making to foster more adaptive behavior, particularly in adolescence.
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Macklem, G.L. (2020). Decision-Making. In: Brief SEL Interventions at School. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65695-9_9
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