Name: Positive Youth Development
Brand: Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)
SKU: 9781620813058
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Positive Youth Development

Theory, Research & Application

By (author): Daniel T L Shek, By (author): Rachel C F Sun, By (author): Joav Merrick

Published by Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)

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£199.99

Format: Hardback
Pages: 226
ISBN: 9781620813058
Publication Date: 04-Mar-2013

Subjects:
Paediatric medicine

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In the prevention science approach, focus is put on identifying risk and protective factors in adolescent risk behaviour. Based on this approach, many research and prevention programs have been generated in the past few decades. Nevertheless, over-emphasis of adolescent developmental problems has been criticised as focusing too much on adolescent developmental problems and pathologies. In response to this criticism, an alternative approach highlighting the importance of positive youth development has been proposed.

Daniel T.L. Shek, PhD, Department of Applied Social Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China.

Joav Merrick, MD, MMedSci, DMSc, (Medical Director, Health Services, Division for Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Ministry of Social Affairs and Social Services, Jerusalem, Israel; Division of Adolescent Medicine, KY Childrens Hospital, Department of Pediatrics, Lexington, Kentucky, US; National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Jerusalem, Israel; Division of Pediatrics, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Centers, Mt Scopus Campus, Jerusalem, Israel; School of Public Health, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, US)