Description
Book SynopsisScientific research and science-guided practice based on the promotion of an individual's strengths constitutes a radical shift in a new and growing area of study within the field of human development. Its trademark term is `positive youth development'. This approach to human development is based on the idea that, in addition to preventing problems, science and practice should promote the development of competencies, skills, and motivation in order to enhance individuals' developmental pathways.
Approaches to Positive Youth Development, is based on this concept and brings together authors from across Europe and America who are leaders in their respective fields. The main focus of the book, beyond a clarification of the paradigmatic foundations, concerns the major contexts of adolescents and young adults, namely, neighbourhoods and leisure locales, school and family, and the major themes of healthy psychosocial development, namely, competences and knowledge, prosoci
Table of Contents
PART ONE: INTRODUCTION PART TWO: MODELS OF POSITIVE DEVELOPMENT IN ADOLESCENCE AND YOUNG ADULTHOOD - Rainer K Silbereisen and Richard M Lerner Developmental Assets - Peter Benson An Overview of Theory, Research and Practice Civic Engagement as an Expression of Positive Youth Development - Lonnie Sherrod Empathy-related Responding - Nancy Eisenberg Its Role in Positive Development and Socialization Correlates Soci(et)al Scaffolding of Individual Growth Across the Life Span - Jutta Heckhausen PART THREE: MULTIPLE CONTEXTS OF POSITIVE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT Perceived Social Inequity and Responses to Conflict among Diverse Youth of Color - Davido Dupree et al The Effects of Social and Physical Context on Youth Behavior and Attitudes Not You! Not Here! Not Now! - Jacquelynne S Eccles and Corinne Alfeld Life Chances and Opportunities in Times of Social Change - Ingrid Schoon Evidence from Two British Birth Cohorts Social Control and Adolescent Development - John H Laub et al A View from Life-Course Criminology Social Support and Positive Development - Karen S Mooney et al Looking on the Bright Side of Adolescent Close Relationships The Long Way to Entrepreneurship - Eva Schmitt-Rodermund Personality, Parenting, Early Interests and Competencies as Precursors for Entrepreneurial Activity among the `Termites′ PART FOUR: INTERVENTIONS AND SOCIAL POLICY Adolescent Spirituality and Positive Youth Development - Pamela Ebstyne King A Look at Religion, Social Capital and Moral Functioning Youth Political Activism - Constance Flanagan et al Sources of Public Hope in the Context of Globalization Macrosocial Worries as a Source of Positive Youth Development - Klaus Boehnke et al Results of a 20-Year Longitudinal Study and Policy Implications From `I′ to `We′ - Reed Larson Development of the Capacity for Teamwork in Youth Programs Prevention Against Substance Use - Karina Weichold Life-skills and Positive Youth Development Building Resources in the Context of Socio-Economic Disadvantage - Cigdem Kagitcibasi Lessons from Research for Social Policies
