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Approaches to Positive Youth Development

Author : Rainer K Silbereisen
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1848607601
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Approaches to Positive Youth Development written by Rainer K Silbereisen and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2007-08-21 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, neighbourhoods and leisure locales, school and family, and the major themes of healthy psychosocial development, namely, competences and knowledge, prosocial behaviour, transcending problems of delinquency, civic engagement, identity, agency, and spirituality.

Community Programs to Promote Youth Development

Author : Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309072751
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Community Programs to Promote Youth Development written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2002-02-12 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After-school programs, scout groups, community service activities, religious youth groups, and other community-based activities have long been thought to play a key role in the lives of adolescents. But what do we know about the role of such programs for today's adolescents? How can we ensure that programs are designed to successfully meet young people's developmental needs and help them become healthy, happy, and productive adults? Community Programs to Promote Youth Development explores these questions, focusing on essential elements of adolescent well-being and healthy development. It offers recommendations for policy, practice, and research to ensure that programs are well designed to meet young people's developmental needs. The book also discusses the features of programs that can contribute to a successful transition from adolescence to adulthood. It examines what we know about the current landscape of youth development programs for America's youth, as well as how these programs are meeting their diverse needs. Recognizing the importance of adolescence as a period of transition to adulthood, Community Programs to Promote Youth Development offers authoritative guidance to policy makers, practitioners, researchers, and other key stakeholders on the role of youth development programs to promote the healthy development and well-being of the nation's youth.

Community Youth Development

Author : Francisco Villarruel
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9780761927877
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (278 download)

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Download or read book Community Youth Development written by Francisco Villarruel and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2003-01-23 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited text focuses on positive approaches to youth development that are rapidly supplanting the traditional deficit-oriented, problem-reduction approach. The book addresses the question; what does it take to create a community that will promote the positive opportunities that can optimize the development of all young people? The book draws together the perspectives of top names and programs in positive youth development, thus assuring readers of authoritative, cutting-edge coverage.

Handbook of Positive Youth Development

Author : Radosveta Dimitrova
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030702626
Total Pages : 679 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Positive Youth Development written by Radosveta Dimitrova and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-10-22 with total page 679 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook examines positive youth development (PYD) in youth and emerging adults from an international perspective. It focuses on large and underrepresented cultural groups across six continents within a strengths-based conception of adolescence that considers all youth as having assets. The volume explores the ways in which developmental assets, when effectively harnessed, empower youth to transition into a productive and resourceful adulthood. The book focuses on PYD across vast geographical regions, including Europe, Asia, Africa, Middle East, Australia, New Zealand, North America, and Latin America as well as on strengths and resources for optimal well-being. The handbook addresses the positive development of young people across various cultural contexts to advance research, policy, and practice and inform interventions that foster continued thriving and reduce the chances of compromised youth development. It presents theoretical perspectives and supporting empirical findings to promote a more comprehensive understanding of PYD from an integrated, multidisciplinary, and multinational perspective.

Trends in Youth Development

Author : Peter L. Benson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461514592
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (615 download)

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Download or read book Trends in Youth Development written by Peter L. Benson and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MOVING THE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT MESSAGE: TURNING A VAGUE IDEA INTO A MORAL IMPERATIVE Peter L. Benson and Karen Pittman THE CONTAGION OF AN IDEA In the past fifteen years, countless programs, agencies, funding initiatives, profes sionals, and volunteers have embraced the term "youth development. " Linked more by shared passion than by formal membership or credentials, these people and places have contributed to a wave of energy and activity not unlike that of a social movement, with a multitude of people "on the ground" connecting to a set of ideas that give sustenance, support, and value to increasingly innovative efforts to build competent, successful, and healthy youth. There are several particularly interesting dimensions to this movement. First, the youth development idea has the potential to draw people and organizations to gether across many sectors. Conferences and initiatives using youth development language attract increasingly eclectic audiences, bringing together national youth organizations, schools, city, county, and state agencies, police and juvenile jus tice workers, clergy, and committed citizens. Perhaps embedded in the youth de velopment idea is a philosophy or a "way" that has created an intellectual and/or spiritual home for actors across many settings. However this happens, it is clear that one of the powerful social consequences of the youth development idea is a connecting of the dots-the weaving within and across city, county, state, and of a tapestry of new relationships.

Positive Youth Development

Author : Daniel T. L. Shek
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781621001751
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Positive Youth Development written by Daniel T. L. Shek and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Designing Digital Experiences for Positive Youth Development

Author : Marina Umaschi Bers Ph.D.
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199921288
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book Designing Digital Experiences for Positive Youth Development written by Marina Umaschi Bers Ph.D. and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on over a decade and a half of research, Designing Digital Experiences for Positive Youth Development aims to guide readers in the design of digital technologies to promote positive behaviors in children and teenagers.

The Youth Development Handbook

Author : Stephen F Hamilton
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1452264287
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (522 download)

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Download or read book The Youth Development Handbook written by Stephen F Hamilton and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2003-10-09 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the types of environments in which youth thrive? How do we cultivate such environments to promote optimal development and positive behavior in youth? The Youth Development Handbook: Coming of Age in American Communities provides youth and development practitioners access to current theory and research in the field of youth development, including illustrations of good practice, original case studies, and a contextual approach to such topics as youth participation and diversity. The Youth Development Handbook is designed for scholars and researchers in applied developmental science as well as practitioners and policy makers who implement youth development initiatives. The book is also recommended for use in graduate courses on youth development in the fields of Psychology, Human Development & Family Studies, and Education.

Recreation and Youth Development

Author : Peter A. Witt
Publisher : Ingram
ISBN 13 : 9781892132574
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (325 download)

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Download or read book Recreation and Youth Development written by Peter A. Witt and published by Ingram. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

New Frontiers for Youth Development in the Twenty-First Century

Author : Melvin Delgado
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231504632
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Book Synopsis New Frontiers for Youth Development in the Twenty-First Century by : Melvin Delgado

Download or read book New Frontiers for Youth Development in the Twenty-First Century written by Melvin Delgado and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2002-06-26 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Practical guide and theoretical manifesto, New Frontiers for Youth Development is a vital roadmap to the problems and prospects of youth development programs today and in the future. In response to an unprecedented array of challenges, policy makers and care providers in the field of youth dvevelopment have begun to expand the field both practically and conceptually. This expansion has thus far outstripped comprehensive analysis of the issues it raises, among them the important matter of establishing common standards of legitimacy and competence for practitioners. New Frontiers for Youth Development is an overview of the field designed to foster a better understanding of the multifaceted aspects and inherent tensions of youth development. Melvin Delgado outlines the broad social forces that affect youth, particularly at-risk or marginalized youth, and the programs designed to address their needs. He stresses the importance of a contextualized approach that avoids rigid standardization and is attuned to the many factors that shape a child's development: cognitive, emotional, physical, moral, social, and spiritual. The key characteristic of youth development in the twenty-first century, Delgado suggests, is the participation of young people as practitioners themselves. Youth must be seen as assets as well as clients, incorporated into the educational process in ways that build character, maturity, and self-confidence.

Positive Youth Development

Author : Richard Lerner
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 0123864925
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (238 download)

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Download or read book Positive Youth Development written by Richard Lerner and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2011-09-26 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each chapter provides in-depth discussions and this volume serves as an invaluable resource for Developmental or educational psychology researchers, scholars, and students. Includes chapters that highlight some of the most recent research in the area of Positive Youth Development Each chapter provides in-depth discussions An invaluable resource for developmental or educational psychology researchers, scholars, and students

Youth Work

Author : Christopher R. Edginton
Publisher : Sagamore Pub Llc
ISBN 13 : 9781571675699
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (756 download)

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Download or read book Youth Work written by Christopher R. Edginton and published by Sagamore Pub Llc. This book was released on 2005 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an introductory overview of the professional practice of youth work and youth development. This book captures the elements that make youth work a unique and powerful experience for those working with young people. Topics include adolescence as a life stage, historical perspectives, approaches and orientations to youth work, practical program and leadership strategies, ethics, multi-culturalism, policy formation, professional career development and more!

Mobilizing Adults for Positive Youth Development

Author : E. Gil Clary
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 038729340X
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (872 download)

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Download or read book Mobilizing Adults for Positive Youth Development written by E. Gil Clary and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-09-24 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In today’s fast-paced, often-dehumanizing world, this book brings together the advice and expertise of leading scholars dedicated to affecting positive youth development. Providing a multifaceted, multidisciplinary blueprint for social change the book promotes individual adult involvement in adolescents’ lives to ensure positive youth development. It aims to mobilize a society of adults, through volunteer and other programs, and will interest anyone involved in working toward achieving positive youth development.

Equipping Quality Youth Development Professionals

Author : William B. Kearney
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1491719346
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (917 download)

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Download or read book Equipping Quality Youth Development Professionals written by William B. Kearney and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past thirty-six years working with child and youth programs from the local to the federal level in the private, not-for-profit, and public sectors, I have observed more than a thousand child and youth programs. ... As I visit program sites, I have often seen the same scenario play out over and over again. Well-intentioned volunteers and eager new staff want to work with and contribute to the lives of young people, but they don't get the training, support, or resources they need to succeed. They do not have understanding of child and youth development, and how to use these principles as they work with young people. So often, organizations don't have the budgets and resources to provide the needed level of child and youth development training and practice for new staff and volunteers.

Youth Development in Identity Societies

Author : James E. Cote
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429783248
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)

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Download or read book Youth Development in Identity Societies written by James E. Cote and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-31 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the causes and consequences of the contradictions in young people’s lives stemming from the affluence–purpose paradox: a lack of purpose-in-life among many of those living in the most affluent societies in human history. This paradox is endemic to identity societies where people experience a choice-contingent life course, and is examined using an interdisciplinary approach—largely with an integration of developmental psychology and sociology, but also using historical, anthropological, economic, and political perspectives. The transition to adulthood is now commonly a prolonged process, with young people facing a number of psychological challenges and sociological obstacles in their identity formation. Challenges include difficulties in making prudent choices about goals. Obstacles involve cross-pressures in the wider society as well as in educational institutions. Consequently, many youth experience their education as alienating and stressful rather than as an opportunity for personal development. Those without a sense of purpose have more difficulties with their identity formation that can produce symptoms of anxiety and depression. The current student mental health crisis is examined in this context. An additional challenge is an ambiguously defined adulthood. Young people who are confused about appropriate adult roles often value hedonistic activities rooted in narcissism and materialism rather than in more fulfilling long-term goals. Conversely, those who are agentic in their personal development can thrive in adulthood, especially when they combine agency with generativity. This book ends with a series of recommendations for researchers and policy makers to help youth cope with the affluence–purpose paradox.

Community Programs to Promote Youth Development

Author : Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 030913403X
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Promoting Positive Youth Development

Author : Edmond P. Bowers
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319171666
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (191 download)

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Download or read book Promoting Positive Youth Development written by Edmond P. Bowers and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-07-13 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the results of the longitudinal 4-H Study of Positive Youth Development. The volume discusses how self-regulation and contextual resources (e.g., strong relationships with parents, peers, and the community) can be fostered in young people to contribute to the enhancement of functioning throughout life. Each chapter examines a particular aspect of youth thriving, and offers findings on either the bases or the role of positive development in a variety of outcomes, from reduced risk of emotional problems and harmful behaviors to increased participation in the community. Contributors introduce a contemporary model of positive development for diverse youth, provide examples of effective youth development programs, and suggest applications for informing the next generation of policies and practices. Among the featured topics: The regulation of emotion in adolescence. School engagement, academic achievement, and positive youth development. Peer relationships and positive youth development. Identity development in adolescence and the implications for youth policy and practice. Promoting adolescent sexual health in youth programming. A positive youth development approach to bullying. Researchers in developmental psychology as well as practitioners in educational or youth development programs or policies will gain from Promoting Positive Youth Development a new appreciation of the central role of young people's strengths, and initiatives to build effective youth programs. “This volume is destined to become the handbook for anyone interested in the bourgeoning field of positive youth development. Based on ground breaking, longitudinal research from top researchers in the field, Promoting Healthy Development for America’s Youth presents a rich, theoretically grounded understanding of the landscape today’s youth and programs. The contributors provide clear, data-driven guidance regarding the types of programs and settings that are most beneficial to young people.” Jean E. Rhodes, Ph.D. Frank L. Boyden Professor Department of Psychology University of Massachusetts, Boston