Overview
Responds to the intense concern for and interest in identifying and measuring what matters for happy, healthy children who grow to be compassionate, responsible adults
Although innumerable organizations undertake efforts aimed at positive youth development, this book takes the first step toward developing a system of national indicators that can be used to monitor positive behaviors and attitudes for children at the national level, in communities, and in programs
Part of the book series: The Search Institute Series on Developmentally Attentive Community and Society (SISS, volume 3)
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Table of contents (22 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Complete mental health: An agenda for the 21st century
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Positive Formation of the Self: Character, Attitudes, Spirituality, and Identity
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Healthy Habits, Positive Behaviors, and Time Use
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Positive Relationships with Parents and Siblings
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Positive Attitudes and Behaviors toward Learning and School Environments
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About this book
Regardless of its validity, many adults share a belief that today’s youth face an inauspicious future. Drugs, sex, violence, disintegration of the nuclear family, technology that replaces interpersonal relationships—that’s what you hear in the news. The media, through its dramatization of the dangers and risks children confront and pose, have created a well-established image of disenfranchised, hostile, and often-destructive children and adolescents. This image ignores the many children who are thriving as well as the possibility of positive outcomes for children and youth.
With children comprising roughly 30% of the global population—almost 2 billion children worldwide—understanding exactly what leads children to grow into confident, caring, responsible adults is an issue that belongs at the forefront of every nation’s agenda. Increasingly, it is understood that we need not only to prevent negative outcomes but to promote positive outcomes.
What Do Children Need to Flourish? Conceptualizing and Measuring Indicators of Positive Development, part of the Search Series on Developmentally Attentive Community and Society, focuses on how scholars and practitioners can begin to build rigorous measures of the healthy behaviors and attitudes that result in positive outcomes for children and youth. The volume is presented in five parts:
- Introduction and conceptual framework.
- Positive formation of the self—character, values, spirituality, life satisfaction, hope, and ethnic identity.
- Healthy habits, positive behaviors, and time use.
- Positive relationships with parents and siblings.
- Positive attitudes and behaviors toward learning and school environments.
- Enacting positive values and behaviors in communities.
What Do Children Need to Flourish? Conceptualizing and Measuring Indicators of Positive Development is an important volume for researchers and practitioners—in fact, for anyone interested and involved in working with children and adolescents.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: What Do Children Need to Flourish?
Book Subtitle: Conceptualizing and Measuring Indicators of Positive Development
Editors: Kristin Anderson Moore, Laura H. Lippman
Series Title: The Search Institute Series on Developmentally Attentive Community and Society
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/b100487
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag US 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-23061-0Published: 05 May 2005
eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-23823-4Published: 03 October 2006
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 390
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Child and School Psychology, Social Sciences, general, Quality of Life Research