Developmental Assets and Asset-Building Communities (Hardcover)

Peter L. Benson

ISBN 10: 0306474824 / ISBN 13: 9780306474828

Published by Springer Science+Business Media, New York, 2002

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Hardcover. 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. Examines the relationships of developmental assets to other approaches and bodies of work. This book raises challenges about the asset-building approach and offers recommendations for how this approach can be strengthened and broadened in impact and research. It is suitable for developmental psychologists, and school and community psychologists. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Developmental Assets and Asset-Building Communities (Hardcover)
• Publisher: Springer Science+Business Media, New York
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0306474824
• ISBN 13: 9780306474828
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: new

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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.