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

ISBN-13: 9780306474828 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 244 str.

Peter L. Benson; Richard M. Lerner; Richard M. Lerner

Opis

Introduced by the Search Institute in 1990, the framework of "developmental assets" is a set of social and psychological strengths that function to enhance health outcomes for children and adolescents. Since that time, research and application associated with the concept of developmental assets has been integrated with the fields of community change and community building: -to help understand the developmental experiences, resources, and opportunities that contributes to important health outcomes among young people; and -to energize and guide community-based approaches to strengthen the natural and inherent socialization capacity of communities in support of youth. 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.
This book is a valuable resource for developmental psychologists, child psychologists, school and community psychologists, practitioners, administrators and policy-makers.

Spis treści

I Conceptual Foundations.- 1. Developmental Assets and Asset-Building Communities: A View of the Issues.- 2. Developmental Assets and Asset-Building Community: Conceptual and Empirical Foundations.- II Promoting Positive Youth Development through Community Building.- 3. Bringing in a New Era in the Field of Youth Development.- 4. Youth Participation: A Critical Element of Research on Child Well-Being.- 5. Enhancing the Assets for Positive Youth Development: The Vision, Values, and Action Agenda of the W. T. Grant Foundation.- III Building Families and Communities Serving Youth.- 6. Building Assets in Real-World Communities.- 7. Asset Building in Parenting Practices and Family Life.- 8. Nonparental Adults as Asset Builders in the Lives of Youth.- IV A Vision for the Future.- 9. Toward Asset-Building Communities: How Does Change Occur?.- 10. Afterword: Toward an Asset-Based Policy Agenda for Children, Families, and Communities.- Contributors.- Author Index.

O autorze

Richard M. Lerner, Ph.D. is Bergstrom Chair in Applied Developmental Science at the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development at Tufts University.