Approaches to Positive Youth Development - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Approaches to Positive Youth Development write by Rainer K Silbereisen. This book was released on 2007-08-21. Approaches to Positive Youth Development available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Handbook on Positive Development of Minority Children and Youth
Handbook on Positive Development of Minority Children and Youth - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Handbook on Positive Development of Minority Children and Youth write by Natasha J. Cabrera. This book was released on 2017-02-07. Handbook on Positive Development of Minority Children and Youth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This Handbook presents current research on children and youth in ethnic minority families. It reflects the development currently taking place in the field of social sciences research to highlight the positive adaptation of minority children and youth. It offers a succinct synthesis of where the field is and where it needs to go. It brings together an international group of leading researchers, and, in view of globalization and increased migration and immigration, it addresses what aspects of children and youth growing in ethnic minority families are universal across contexts and what aspects are more context-specific. The Handbook examines the individual, family, peers, and neighborhood/policy factors that protect children and promote positive adaptation. It examines the factors that support children’s social integration, psychosocial adaptation, and external functioning. Finally, it looks at the mechanisms that explain why social adaptation occurs.
Handbook of Positive Youth Development
Handbook of Positive Youth Development - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Handbook of Positive Youth Development write by Radosveta Dimitrova. This book was released on 2021-10-22. Handbook of Positive Youth Development available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Designing Digital Experiences for Positive Youth Development
Designing Digital Experiences for Positive Youth Development - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Designing Digital Experiences for Positive Youth Development write by Marina Umaschi Bers Ph.D.. This book was released on 2012-03-01. Designing Digital Experiences for Positive Youth Development available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Based on over a decade and a half of research, Designing Digital Experiences for Positive Youth Development aims to guide readers in the design of digital technologies to promote positive behaviors in children and teenagers.
Well-Being
Well-Being - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Well-Being write by Marc H. Bornstein. This book was released on 2003-02-26. Well-Being available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume derived from original presentations given at a conference in Atlanta, Georgia, under the auspices of the Center for Child Well-Being. Scholars, practitioners, public health professionals, and principals in the child development community convened to address a science-based framework for elements of well-being and how the elements might be developed across the life course. Integrating physical, cognitive, and social-emotional domains, Well-Being is the first scientific book to consider well-being holistically. Focusing on a set of core strengths grouped within these three domains, the book also includes a fourth section on developmental strengths through adulthood that broadly examines a continuum of health and development, as well as transitions in well-being. This volume takes a developmental perspective across the life course, describing foundational strengths for well-being--the capacities that can be actively developed, supported, or learned. These foundational strengths--problem solving, emotional regulation, and physical safety--are the positive underpinnings of early child health and development, as well as ongoing well-being across the life course. Working together and blending their respective disciplinary perspectives and expertise, 53 experts in psychology, sociology, child development, and medicine have contributed to the book.
