Handbook of Positive Youth Development
Advancing Research, Policy, and Practice in Global Contexts
Radosveta Dimitrova editor Nora Wiium editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Published:23rd Oct '21
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This handbook examines positive youth development (PYD) in youth and emerging adults from an international perspective. It focuses on large and underrepresented cultural groups across six continents within a strengths-based conception of adolescence that considers all youth as having assets. The volume explores the ways in which developmental assets, when effectively harnessed, empower youth to transition into a productive and resourceful adulthood. The book focuses on PYD across vast geographical regions, including Europe, Asia, Africa, Middle East, Australia, New Zealand, North America, and Latin America as well as on strengths and resources for optimal well-being. The handbook addresses the positive development of young people across various cultural contexts to advance research, policy, and practice and inform interventions that foster continued thriving and reduce the chances of compromised youth development. It presents theoretical perspectives and supporting empirical findings to promote a more comprehensive understanding of PYD from an integrated, multidisciplinary, and multinational perspective.
“The Handbook of Positive Youth Development represents a milestone in research on PYD. By combining theoretical advancements, empirical evidence … this Handbook constitutes a must-have for any scientist or practitioner in the field of youth development. Social scientists from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds such as positive psychology, well-being studies … will find this Handbook useful. The editors have made a tremendous job in providing a groundwork from which future work on minimizing the impact of adversity will be built.” (Stefanos Mastrotheodoros, Adolescent Research Review, Vol. 7 (4), 2022)
“The Handbook of Positive Youth Development: Advancing Research, Policy and Practice in Global Contexts is a potentially ground-breaking work … . The text provides a truly international perspective on the latest research in the field of PYD, featuring new scholarship from underrepresented and understudied geographic locations. … The Handbook will undoubtedly serve as an important resource for a broad audience of youth researchers, practitioners and policy makers for many years to come.” (Steven Eric Krauss, Applied Research in Quality of Life, Vol. 16, 2021)
“The book sets itself apart as pioneering in PYD research, nowadays … . Besides summarizing a number of unique features and relevant conceptual and methodological contributions of the book at hand, the foreword written by Shek stands itself as a testament to the book’s ethos of increasing visibility of non-WEIRD PYD research and scholars. The Handbook is a tremendous ambitious collective product that raises the voice and advances the research in PYD in both WEIRD and non-WEIRD societies.” (Delia Stefenel and Mădălina Mirea, Research and Science Journal, Vol. 22 (2), 2021)
ISBN: 9783030702618
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 1503g
659 pages
1st ed. 2021