ABSTRACT
Once we’ve provided our students with an opportunity to experience success (Chapters 3 and 4—competence), which should help build their self-esteem, and we’ve afforded them the chance to be accepted as unique individuals worthy of “membership” at school (Chapter 5—belonging), and we have given them opportunities to make meaningful contributions to their community (Chapter 6—usefulness); we have assisted our at-risk students in developing a strong foundation for resilience. This results in significant armament against alienation. However, there is one more basic need that must be nurtured if we are to become confident of their ability to ward off at-riskness. This is an attribute that too often is overlooked because on the surface, it appears socially unbecoming. This final leg of the “four horsemen of motivation” is a person’s need for personal “power.”
