Approaches to Positive Youth Development

PART ONE: INTRODUCTION/PART TWO: MODELS OF POSITIVE DEVELOPMENT IN ADOLESCENCE AND YOUNG ADULTHOOD/Developmental Assets/An Overview of Theory Research and Practice/Civic Engagement as an Expression of Positive Youth Development/Empathy-related Responding/Its Role in Positive Development and Socialization Correlates/Soci(et)al Scaffolding of Individual Growth Across the Life Span/PART THREE: MULTIPLE CONTEXTS OF POSITIVE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT/Perceived Social Inequity and Responses to Conflict among Diverse Youth of Color/The Effects of Social and Physical Context on Youth Behavior and Attitudes/Not You! Not Here! Not Now!/Life Chances and Opportunities in Times of Social Change/Evidence from Two British Birth Cohorts/Social Control and Adolescent Development/A View from Life-Course Criminology/Social Support and Positive Development/Looking on the Bright Side of Adolescent Close Relationships/The Long Way to Entrepreneurship/Personality Parenting Early Interests and Competencies as Precursors for Entrepreneurial Activity among the `Termites'/PART FOUR: INTERVENTIONS AND SOCIAL POLICY/Adolescent Spirituality and Positive Youth Development/A Look at Religion Social Capital and Moral Functioning/Youth Political Activism/Sources of Public Hope in the Context of Globalization/Macrosocial Worries as a Source of Positive Youth Development/Results of a 20-Year Longitudinal Study and Policy Implications/From `I' to `We'/Development of the Capacity for Teamwork in Youth Programs/Prevention Against Substance Use/Life-skills and Positive Youth Development/Building Resources in the Context of Socio-Economic Disadvantage/Lessons from Research for Social Policies