[Grammar] coping strategies

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Ashiuhto

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Please help me check the following list. Are they acceptable? Thanks!

The followings are the coping strategies/back up plans:
1. Pay close attention to the needs of teenagers’ psychological development.
2. Encourage students to stretch out their diversified interpersonal relationship, and construct a positive social supporting network.
3. Provide teenagers with living experience which has substitute function, so as to shift/avoid the risks of addiction.
 

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They are OK up to #3. What is 'substitute function' supposed to mean?

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[FONT=新細明體][/FONT]A teacher corrected the sentences as written.

The following are some strategies[FONT="新細明體"]:[/FONT]

[FONT=新細明體][/FONT]1. Pay close attention to theneeds of teenage psychological development.
[FONT=新細明體][/FONT]2. Encourage students todiversify their interpersonal relationships and develop a positivesocial-support network.
[FONT=新細明體]3. [/FONT]Provide teenagers with substitute experience so as tolessen the risk of addiction.
 

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A teacher corrected the sentences as written.

The following are some strategies[FONT=新細明體]:[/FONT]

1. Pay close attention to the needs of teenage psychological development.
2. Encourage students to diversify their interpersonal relationships and develop a positive social-support network.
[FONT=新細明體]3. [/FONT]Provide teenagers with substitute experiences so as to lessen the risk of addiction.

Your teacher's corrections are certainly better than your original sentences.
 

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I'm still not sure about "substitute experience" unless it's a phrase which is particular to the area of helping people with addictions. I can only assume it means to show them a completely different way of life where their addiction has no part to play.
 
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