Developmental Assets and Asset-Building Communities: Implications for Research, Policy, and Practice

✍ Scribed by Richard M. Lerner (auth.), Richard M. Lerner, Peter L. Benson (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 246
• Series: The Search Institute Series on Developmentally Attentive Community and Society 1
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Development Assets and Asset-Building Communities: A View of the Issues....Pages 3-18
Developmental Assets and Asset-Building Community: Conceptual and Empirical Foundations....Pages 19-43
Front Matter....Pages 45-45
Bringing in a New Era in the Field of Youth Development....Pages 47-64
Youth Participation: A Critical Element of Research on Child Well-Being....Pages 65-96
Enhancing the Assets for Positive Youth Development: The Vision, Values, and Action Agenda of the W. T. Grant Foundation....Pages 97-117
Front Matter....Pages 119-119
Building Assets in Real-World Communities....Pages 121-156
Asset Building in Parenting Practices and Family Life....Pages 157-193
Nonparental Adults as Asset Builders in the Lives of Youth....Pages 195-209
Front Matter....Pages 211-211
Toward Asset-Building Communities: How Does Change Occur?....Pages 213-221
Afterword: Toward an Asset-Based Policy Agenda for Children, Families, and Communities....Pages 223-229
Back Matter....Pages 231-244

✦ Subjects

Psychology, general; Community and Environmental Psychology; Clinical Psychology; Personality and Social Psychology