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Developmental Assets and Asset-Building Communities

Implications for Research, Policy, and Practice

  • Examines the relationships of developmental assets to other approaches and bodies of work
  • Raises challenges about the asset-building approach and offers recommendations for how this approach can be strengthened and broadened in impact and research

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
  2. Promoting Positive Youth Development through Community Building

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 45-45
    2. Bringing in a New Era in the Field of Youth Development

      • William Damon, Anne Gregory
      Pages 47-64
    3. Youth Participation: A Critical Element of Research on Child Well-Being

      • Brian Chan, Mary Carlson, Barbara Trickett, Felton Earls
      Pages 65-96
  3. Building Families and Communities Serving Youth

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 119-119
    2. Building Assets in Real-World Communities

      • Raymond P. Lorion, Harris Sokoloff
      Pages 121-156
    3. Asset Building in Parenting Practices and Family Life

      • A. Rae Simpson, Jolene L. Roehlkepartain
      Pages 157-193
    4. Nonparental Adults as Asset Builders in the Lives of Youth

      • Jean E. Rhodes, Jennifer G. Roffman
      Pages 195-209
  4. A Vision for the Future

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 211-211
  5. Back Matter

    Pages 231-244

About this book

Developmental Assets and Asset-Building Communities examines the relationships of developmental assets to other approaches and bodies of work. It raises challenges about the asset-building approach and offers recommendations for how this approach can be strengthened and broadened in impact and research. In doing so, this book extends the scholarly base for the understanding of the character and scope of the systemic relation between young people's healthy development and the nature of developmentally attentive communities. The chapters in this volume present evidence that asset-building communities both promote and are promoted by positive youth development, a bi-directional, systemic linkage that - consistent with developmental systems theory - further civil society by building relationship and intergenerational places within a community that are united in attending to the developmental needs of children and adolescents.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Tufts University, Medford, USA

    Richard M. Lerner

  • Search Institute, Minneapolis, USA

    Peter L. Benson

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Softcover Book USD 169.99
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