Putting positive youth development into practice
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Page : 60 pages
File Size : 12,59 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Adolescence
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Putting positive youth development into practice
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Page : 62 pages
File Size : 29,98 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Adolescence
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Book Description
Putting Positive Youth Development Into Practice
Author : U.s. Department of Health and Human Services
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 40,39 MB
Release : 2014-05-17
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781499579284
Book Description
The signs of Positive Youth Development are everywhere. Across the country, more than 7 million youth are learning to lead through the 4-H. As many as 200,000 girls, ages 11 to 17, are serving their communities through the Girl Scouts. More than 40,000 young people have already worked to rehabilitate their own neighborhoods through YouthBuild. And that's just the beginning. From organizing fundraisers to cleaning up parks, groups of young people in every city and town across the Nation are engaged in both organized and grassroots efforts to enrich their neighborhoods, their schools, and their futures. In many communities, youth have taken activism a step further by participating directly in policy decisions that impact their lives.
Handbook of Positive Youth Development
Author : Radosveta Dimitrova
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 679 pages
File Size : 36,42 MB
Release : 2021-10-22
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 3030702626
Book Description
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.
Toward Positive Youth Development
Author : Marybeth Shinn
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 26,56 MB
Release : 2008-04-10
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0199716595
Book Description
Social settings have enormous power to promote or hinder positive youth development. Researchers and practitioners know a great deal about features of schools and programs for youth that affect development, but much less about how to transform settings to bring about these desirable features. This book shows how to harness the power of settings. It shifts the debate from simply enhancing youth outcomes at the individual level to improving the settings of youths' daily lives. The book offers researchers and practitioners blueprints for creating and changing influential settings including classrooms, schools, universities, out-of-school time programs, ethnic systems of supplementary education, and other community-based programs. Leading scholars in psychology, education, human development, sociology, anthropology, economics, law, and public policy discuss a wide array of social change strategies, and describe how to measure key features of settings as a target and guide for change. The authors also demonstrate how larger social structures - such as school districts, community coalitions, community data resources - can support change. Many of the chapters describe ways to make settings work for all youth, including those marginalized by reason of race, ethnicity, social class, or sexual orientation. Toward Positive Youth Development will guide researchers, educators, administrators and policy makers to improve schools and youth programs for all of America's youth.
Positive Youth Development
Author : Richard Lerner
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 42,65 MB
Release : 2011-09-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 0123864925
Book Description
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
Promoting Positive Youth Development
Author : Edmond P. Bowers
Publisher : Springer
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 26,35 MB
Release : 2015-07-13
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 3319171666
Book Description
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
Approaches to Positive Youth Development
Author : Rainer K Silbereisen
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 47,97 MB
Release : 2007-08-21
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1848607601
Book Description
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
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 14,92 MB
Release : 2002-02-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0309072751
Book Description
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.
Positive Youth Development Through Sport
Author : Nicholas L. Holt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 10,2 MB
Release : 2007-09-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 1135983100
Book Description
The first Positive Youth Development title to focus on the role of sport, this book brings together high profile contributors from diverse disciplines to critically examine the ways in which sport can be and has been used to promote youth development. Young people are too frequently looked upon as problems waiting to be solved. From the perspective of Positive Youth Development (PYD), young people are understood to embody potential, awaiting development. Involvement with sport provides a developmental context that has been associated with PYD, but negative outcomes can also arise from sport participation and school PE. Sport itself does not lead to PYD; rather, it is the manner in which sport is structured and delivered to children that influences their development. Positive Youth Development Through Sport fills a void in the literature by bringing together experts from diverse disciplines to critically examine the ways in which sport can be and has been used to promote youth development.
