Scientific research and science-guided practice based on the promotion of an individual's strengths constitutes a radical shift in a new and growing area of study within the field of human development. Its trademark term is positive youth development'. This approach to human development is based on the idea that, in addition to preventing problems, science and practice should promote the development of competencies, skills, and motivation in order to enhance individuals' developmental pathways.

Approaches to Positive Youth Development is based on this concept and...

What have been the most important issues in developmental science over the past century? What is in store for developmental science in the near future? In order to tackle these questions, experts in the field of developmental science were asked to write about their views concerning trends in theoretical concepts, methodologies and substantive insights. Growing Points in Developmental Science is an ISSBD publication based on the millennium symposia papers published in the International Journal of Behavioural Development in 2000. The collection of overview chapters summarizes the...

Much of the psychological research in the last century has been conducted in the global North West; hence, many prevailing theories and methodologies reflect the philosophical framework and shared cultural knowledge of this region. Other world views and cultural contexts have, as yet, not had the same opportunity to develop scientific insights that come to the attention of global audiences. Psychology Education and Training is the first truly international effort to generate a framework for common standards in psychological education and training across the globe. Psychologists have long...

Most contributions to this volume originated as papers given at an inter- national conference on Integrative Perspectives on Youth Development held in Berlin (West) in May, 1983. This conference was part of a 6-year longi- tudinal research program on the causes of substance use among adolescents in Berlin, which is now in its fourth year. The conference title deliberately did not refer to substance use. However, its relevance to an explanation of drug-related problem behavior was made evident to everyone invited to the conference. The search for integrative perspectives in youth development...

schiedliche Kontakte uber personliche Beziehungen, private Hilfseinrichtun gen und offentliche Stellen ergaben eine breite Streuung uber vielfaltige Le benswege und familiare Hintergrunde, konnen aber naturgemass die Qualitat einer Zufallsstichprobe nur annahern. Neben der Iangsschnittlichen Anlage, die immerhin vier Erhebungswellen im Abstand von etwa sechs Monaten umfasste, ist ein weiteres Merkmal des Designs fur die Interpretation unserer Befunde als Ausdruck von Akkulturation noch wichtiger. Die rund 280 Fa milien mit (wenigstens) einem Kind im Alter von 10 bis 16 Jahren waren namlich so...