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What Do Children Need to Flourish?: Conceptualizing and Measuring Indicators of Positive Youth Development

Edited by Kristin A. Moore, Ph.D, and Laura Lippman
2005, 6.5 x 10, 383 pages.
Hardcover

Price $55.95

Product Code: 0272-W

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Regardless of its validity, many adults share a common belief that today’s youth face an inauspicious future. Drugs, sex, violence, the disintegration of the nuclear family, technology that replaces relationships—that’s what you hear in the news. This image ignores the many children who are thriving and it ignores the possibility of positive outcomes for children and youth. What Do Children Need to Flourish? focuses on how scholars and practitioners can begin to build rigorous measures of the behaviors and attitudes that result in positive outcomes for youth. It is an important volume for researchers, practitioners—anyone interested and involved in working with children and adolescents.