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

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 resea...

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Main Author: Lerner, Richard M.
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Benson, Peter L.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2003.
Series:Search Institute series on developmentally attentive community and society ; 1.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary: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.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xiii, 244 pages)
ISBN:9781461500919 (electronic bk.)
1461500915 (electronic bk.)