This book provides a comprehensive overview of how communities can leverage their social capital to improve overall quality of life for citizens. In addition, it offers detailed guidance on the design, implementation, and evaluation of social capital initiatives. It defines critical concepts of social capital, its decline in recent years, and the potential for rebuilding it through progressive social policy initiatives. Chapters present an innovative social policy template, Serve Here, for improving Americans collective quality of life, starting with young adults. Serve Here sets out a...

This text offers clear, interdisciplinary guidance that illuminates the many contexts - developmental, genetic, social, and familial among them - crucial to effective intervention and prevention. Contributors examine current findings on widely used therapies.