Approaches to Positive Youth Development [Hardcover]

Scientific 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, neighborhoods and leisure locales, school and family, and the major themes of healthy psychosocial development, namely, competences and knowledge, prosocial behavior, transcending problems of delinquency, civic engagement, identity, agency, and spirituality.

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 lƒ&