Positive Youth Development

✍ Scribed by Richard M. Lerner, Jacqueline V. Lerner and Janette B. Benson (Eds.)

Publisher: Academic Press, Elsevier
Year: 2011
Leaves: 420
Series: Advances in Child Development and Behavior 41
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Series Page
Page ii

Copyright
Page iv

Contributors
Pages ix-xi

Preface
Pages xiii-xvii
Richard M. Lerner, Jacqueline V. Lerner, Janette B. Benson

Chapter 1 - Positive youth development: Research and applications for promoting thriving in adolescence
Pages 1-17
Richard M. Lerner, Jacqueline V. Lerner, Janette B. Benson

Chapter 2 - The development of intentional self-regulation in adolescence: Describing, explaining, and optimizing its link to positive youth development
Pages 19-38
Christopher M. Napolitano, Edmond P. Bowers, Steinunn Gestsdóttir, Paul A. Chase

Chapter 3 - Youth Purpose and Positive Youth Development
Pages 39-68
Jenni Menon Mariano, Julie Going

Chapter 4 - Positive pathways to adulthood: The role of hope in adolescents’ constructions of their futures
Pages 69-88
Kristina L. Schmid, Shane J. Lopez

Chapter 5 - Intrinsic Motivation and Positive Development
Pages 89-130
Reed W. Larson, Natalie Rusk

Chapter 6 - School engagement: What it is and why it is important for positive youth development
Pages 131-160
Yibing Li

Chapter 7 - Religion, Spirituality, Positive Youth Development, and Thriving
Pages 161-195
Pamela Ebstyne King, Drew Carr, Ciprian Boitor

Chapter 8 - The contribution of the developmental assets framework to positive youth development theory and practice
Pages 197-230
Peter L. Benson, Peter C. Scales, Amy K. Syvertsen

Chapter 9 - Youth activity involvement and positive youth development
Pages 231-249
Megan Kiely Mueller, Selva Lewin-Bizan, Jennifer Brown Urban

Chapter 10 - Media literacy and positive youth development
Pages 251-271
Michelle J. Boyd, Julie Dobrow

Chapter 11 - Advances in civic engagement research: Issues of civic measures and civic context
Pages 273-308
Jonathan F. Zaff, Kei Kawashima-Ginsberg, Emily S. Lin

Chapter 12 - Shortridge Academy: Positive Youth Development in Action within a Therapeutic Community
Pages 309-348
Kristine M. Baber, Adam Rainer

Chapter 13 - Integrating Theory and Method in the Study of Positive Youth Development: The Sample Case of Gender-Specificity and Longitudinal Stability of the Dimensions of Intention Self-Regulation (Selection, Optimization, and Compensation)
Pages 349-375
Alexander von Eye, Michelle M. Martel, Richard M. Lerner, Jacqueline V. Lerner, Edmond P. Bowers

Author Index
Pages 377-392

Subject Index
Pages 393-402

Contents of Previous Volumes
Pages 403-415

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