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...
Introduced by the Search Institute in 1990, the framework of "developmental assets" is a set of social and psychological strengths that function to en...
Regardless of its validity, many adults share a belief that today s youth face an inauspicious future. Drugs, sex, violence, disintegration of the nuclear family, technology that replaces interpersonal relationships that s what you hear in the news. The media, through its dramatization of the dangers and risks children confront and pose, have created a well-established image of disenfranchised, hostile, and often-destructive children and adolescents. This image ignores the many children who are thriving as well as the possibility of positive outcomes for children and youth.
With...
Regardless of its validity, many adults share a belief that today s youth face an inauspicious future. Drugs, sex, violence, disintegration of the ...
Perhaps no other challenge is more pressing in creating developmentally - tentive community and society (the theme of this book series) than mobilizing adultstoplayactive, constructiverolesinthelivesofchildrenandadolescents.In a society that too easily defaults to designing programs as cure-alls for meeting young people s needs, particular attention must be paid to understanding and mobilizing the kind of positive, relational energy that prepares each successive generation to assume its place in society. Although programs and institutions certainlyplayimportantroles,...
Perhaps no other challenge is more pressing in creating developmentally - tentive community and society (the theme of this book series) than mobilizin...
This unique book offers insight into a new social science concept, authoritative communities. Unlike any other volume, Kline's work facilitates the continuing dialogue about the needs of children and teens and society's responsibility to nurture its greatest human capital. The report that led to the development of this volume, Hardwired to Connect, identified a need in today's children and youth and communicated a solution that society believes is valid.
This unique book offers insight into a new social science concept, authoritative communities. Unlike any other volume, Kline's work facilitates the...
This new volume in the Search Institute Series on Developmentally Attentive Community and Society represents a milestone in Search Institute s signature work on the Developmental Assets that children and adolescents need in their lives to succeed. Through the research behind this book, Karen VanderVen links this strength-based, community-based approach to human development to early childhood development and practice. In doing so, she advances a lo- term vision of understanding child and adolescent development not merely as a series of discrete stages, but as a trajectory of development in...
This new volume in the Search Institute Series on Developmentally Attentive Community and Society represents a milestone in Search Institute s signatu...
It is a great pleasure to offer this volume from Michael J. Nakkula, Karen C. Foster, Marc Mannes, and Shenita Bolstrom as the latest in the Search Institute Series on Developmentally Attentive Community and Society. Its importance to the series and this ?eld of inquiry and practice is readily evident in its title, Building Healthy Communities for Positive Youth Development. Since the early 1990s, Search Institute has invited and encouraged communities of all shapes and sizes to use its framework of Developmental Assets and principles of asset building to create strong, vibrant, and welcoming...
It is a great pleasure to offer this volume from Michael J. Nakkula, Karen C. Foster, Marc Mannes, and Shenita Bolstrom as the latest in the Search In...
Perhaps no other challenge is more pressing in creating developmentally - tentive community and society (the theme of this book series) than mobilizing adultstoplayactive, constructiverolesinthelivesofchildrenandadolescents.In a society that too easily defaults to designing programs as cure-alls for meeting young people s needs, particular attention must be paid to understanding and mobilizing the kind of positive, relational energy that prepares each successive generation to assume its place in society. Although programs and institutions certainlyplayimportantroles,...
Perhaps no other challenge is more pressing in creating developmentally - tentive community and society (the theme of this book series) than mobilizin...
This new volume in the Search Institute Series on Developmentally Attentive Community and Society represents a milestone in Search Institute s signature work on the Developmental Assets that children and adolescents need in their lives to succeed. Through the research behind this book, Karen VanderVen links this strength-based, community-based approach to human development to early childhood development and practice. In doing so, she advances a lo- term vision of understanding child and adolescent development not merely as a series of discrete stages, but as a trajectory of development in...
This new volume in the Search Institute Series on Developmentally Attentive Community and Society represents a milestone in Search Institute s signatu...
This unique book offers insight into a new social science concept, authoritative communities. Unlike any other volume, Kline s work facilitates the continuing dialogue about the needs of children and teens and society s responsibility to nurture its greatest human capital. The report that led to the development of this volume, Hardwired to Connect, identified a need in today s children and youth and communicated a solution that society believes is valid."
This unique book offers insight into a new social science concept, authoritative communities. Unlike any other volume, Kline s work facilitates the...
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...
Developmental Assets and Asset-Building Communities examines the relationships of developmental assets to other approaches and bodies...
