Approaches to Positive Youth Development

by Rainer K Silbereisen

• ISBN13: 9781412922883
• ISBN10: 1412922887
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-09-18
• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors	p. vii
Preface	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Approaches to Positive Youth Development: A View of the Issues	p. 3
Models of Positive Development in Adolescence and Young Adulthood	p. 31
Developmental Assets: An Overview of Theory, Research, and Practice	p. 33
Civic Engagement as an Expression of Positive Youth Development	p. 59
Empathy-Related Responding: Its Role in Positive Development and Socialization Correlates	p. 75
Soci(et)al Scaffolding of Individual Growth across the Life Span	p. 93
Multiple Contexts of Positive Youth Development	p. 109
Perceived Social Inequity and Responses to Conflict among Diverse Youth of Color: The Effects of Social and Physical Context on Youth Behavior and Attitudes	p. 111
Not You! Not Here! Not Now!	p. 133
Life Chances and Opportunities in Times of Social Change: Evidence from Two British Birth Cohorts	p. 157
Social Control and Adolescent Development: A View from Life-Course Criminology	p. 173
Social Support and Positive Development: Looking on the Bright Side of Adolescent Close Relationships	p. 189
The Long Way to Entrepreneurship: Personality, Parenting, Early Interests, and Competencies as Precursors for Entrepreneurial Activity among the 'Termites'	p. 205
Interventions and Social Policy	p. 225
Adolescent Spirituality and Positive Youth Development: A Look at Religion, Social Capital, and Moral Functioning	p. 227
Youth Political Activism: Sources of Public Hope in the Context of Globalization	p. 243
Macrosocial Worries as a Source of Positive Youth Development: Results of a 20-Year Longitudinal Study and Policy Implications	p. 257
From 'I' to 'We': Development of the Capacity for Teamwork in Youth Programs	p. 277
Prevention against Substance Misuse: Life Skills and Positive Youth Development	p. 293
Building Resources in the Context of Socioeconomic Disadvantage: Lessons from Research for Social Policies	p. 311
Author Index	p. 331
Subject Index	p. 343
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