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Title Approaches to positive youth development / edited by Rainer K. Silbereisen & Richard M. Lerner
Published London : SAGE, 2007

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 MELB  362.7083 Sil/Atp  AVAILABLE
Description xii, 352 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents Approaches to positive youth development : a view of the issues / Rainer K. Silbereisen and Richard M. Lerner -- Developmental assets : an overview of theory, research, and practice / Peter L. Benson -- Civic engagement as an expression of positive youth development / Lonnie Sherrod -- Empathy-related responding : its role in positive development and socialization correlates / Nancy Eisenberg -- Soci(et)al scaffolding of individual growth across the life span / Jutta Heckhausen -- Perceived social inequity and responses to conflict among diverse youth of color : the effects of social and physical context on youth behavior and attitudes / Davido Dupree, Margaret Beale Spencer, and Suzanne Fegley -- Not you! Not here! Not now! / Jacquelynne S. Eccles and Corinne Alfeld -- Life chances and opportunities in times of social change : evidence from two British birth cohorts / Ingrid Schoon -- Social control and adolescent development : a view from life-course criminology / John H. Laub, Elaine Eggleston Doherty, and Robert J. Sampson -- Social support and positive development : looking on the bright side of adolescent close relationships / Karen S. Mooney, Brett Laursen, and Ryan E. Adams -- The long way to entrepreneurship : personality, parenting, early interests, and competencies as precursors for entrepreneurial activity among the 'Termites' / Eva Schmitt-Rodermund -- Adolescent spirituality and positive youth development : a look at religion, social capital, and moral functioning / Pamela Ebstyne King -- Youth political activism : sources of public hope in the context of globalization / Constance Flanagan, Amy Syvertsen, and Laura Wray-Lake -- Macrosocial worries as a source of positive youth development : results of a 20-year longitudinal study and policy implications / Klaus Boehnke, Daniel Fuss, and Mandy Boehnke -- From 'I' to 'we' : development of the capacity for teamwork in youth programs / Reed W. Larson -- Prevention against substance misuse : life skills and positive youth development / Karina Weichold -- Building resources in the context of socioeconomic disadvantage : lessons from research for social policies / Cigdem Kagitcibasi
Summary 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
Notes Formerly CIP. Uk
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Subject Youth development.
Youth -- Services for.
Adolescent Behavior.
Adolescent Development.
Adolescent Health Services.
Social Environment.
Socioeconomic Factors.
Adolescent Behavior.
Adolescent Development.
Adolescent Health Services.
Social Environment.
Socioeconomic Factors.
Author Lerner, Richard M.
Silbereisen, R. K. (Rainer K.), 1944-
LC no. 2007920912
ISBN 1412922887 (hbk.)
9781412922883 (hbk.)