Approaches to positive youth development (Sage Publications, 2007)
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Cover; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Preface; SECTION ONE Introduction; 1 Approaches to Positive Youth Development: A View of the Issues; SECTION TWO Models of Positive Development in Adolescence and Young Adulthood; 2 Developmental Assets: An Overview of Theory, Research, and Practice; 3 Civic Engagement as an Expression of Positive Youth Development; 4 Empathy-Related Responding: Its Role in Positive Development and Socialization Correlates; 5 Soci(et)al Scaffolding of Individual Growth across the Life Span; SECTION THREE Multiple Contexts of Positive Youth Development
The main focus of this 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