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.

I Conceptual Foundations.- 1. Developmental Assets and Asset-Building Communities: A View of the Issues.- 2. Developmental Assets and Asset-Building Community: Conceptual and Empirical Foundations.- II Promoting Positive Youth Development through Community Building.- 3. Bringing in a New Era in the Field of Youth Development.- 4. Youth Participation: A Critical Element of Research on Child Well-Being.- 5. Enhancing the Assets for Positive Youth Development: The Vision, Values, and Action Agenda of the W. T. Grant Foundation.- III Building Families and Communities Serving Youth.- 6. Building Assets in Real-World Communities.- 7. Asset Building in Parenting Practices and Family Life.- 8. Nonparental Adults as Asset Builders in the Lives of Youth.- IV A Vision for the Future.- 9. Toward Asset-Building Communities: How Does Change Occur?.- 10. Afterword: Toward an Asset-Based Policy Agenda for Children, Families, and Communities.- Contributors.- Author Index.

Examines the relationships of developmental assets to other approaches and bodies of work Raises challenges about the asset-building approach and offers recommendations for how this approach can be strengthened and broadened in impact and research

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