Youth Development, Developmental Assets, and Public Policy

Benson, Peter; Mannes, Marc; Pittman, Karen; Ferber, Thaddeus

doi:10.1002/9780471726746.ch25

Cited by 69 publications

(47 citation statements)

References 43 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…30,31 Nevertheless, preventing developmental deficits and promoting developmental strengths are parallel, unique, and complementary tracks, both having informed youth policy during the last 40 years, with the former clearly dominant and the latter gaining momentum and heightened recognition. 32 Further, combined efforts of these two streams for mental health are advocated as there is significant overlap in strategies employed. 3 It is important that policies and programs focus on both risk and protective factors to prevent mental health problems and promote positive youth development.…”

Section: Pyd Based Youth Mental Health Promotionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Positive youth development programs for mental health promotion in Indian youth: an underutilized pathway

Hameed

Mehrotra

2017

Int J Community Med Public Health

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

There is an unprecedented growth in the young population worldwide and especially in India and mental health of youth is an area of growing concern. The scope of convergence of the fields of positive youth development and mental health promotion among youth is becoming evident in the recent times. The paper aims to provide a brief overview of the field of PYD research in India and come up with implications for utilizing this framework for youth mental health promotion. A rapid review was carried out to examine Indian research on positive youth development and its relevance for mental health promotion through youth engagement. Two sets of key words, ‘Positive youth development’ and ‘India’ were jointly used as search words. The search was carried out in the month of April 2017, using EBSCO and ProQuest and MedIND as the electronic databases, with no restriction in the time-period of the published studies. A supplementary search of titles using Google search engine was done with eight Indian journals and one database for the period from 2010 till date. The search indicated significant paucity of Indian literature on positive youth development. A total of 24 articles were identified. Nine studies were retained of which six were non-intervention and three were intervention studies. The review suggests that PYD programs and PYD based mental health promotion programs are in a nascent stage in India with a dearth of published literature on the same. Implications for youth mental health promotion are highlighted.

show abstract

Section: Pyd Based Youth Mental Health Promotionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Positive youth development programs for mental health promotion in Indian youth: an underutilized pathway

Hameed

Mehrotra

2017

Int J Community Med Public Health

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…The young person is also less likely to be on a trajectory of risk and problem behaviors, such as substance abuse, delinquency, and depression. That is, as evidence for positive behavior increases, the PYD perspective hypothesizes that there will be fewer indications of problematic behaviors (e.g., Benson, Mannes, Pittman, & Ferber, 2004;Pittman, Irby, & Ferber, 2001). Although recent research supports a general inverse relation between PYD and risk/problem behaviors, these findings also indicate that a more complex pattern of positive and negative developmental trajectories; these pathways are not simply inversely related (LewinBizan et al, 2010;Phelps et al, 2007).…”

Section: The Five Cs Model Of Pydmentioning

confidence: 99%

Longitudinal Analysis of a Very Short Measure of Positive Youth Development

Geldhof

Bowers

Mueller

et al. 2014

J Youth Adolescence

126

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

As developmental scientists cease to perceive adolescence as a period of inevitable turmoil and adopt the Positive Youth Development (PYD) perspective, psychometrically sound measurement tools will be needed to assess adolescents' positive attributes. In this article we examine the longitudinal stability of the very short version of the PYD scale developed as part of the 4-H Study of PYD. Using a sample of 7,071 adolescents (60 % female) followed between Grades 5 and 12, our results suggest general stability of PYD across adolescence, both in terms of mean levels and rank-order stability. We also show that both a global measure of PYD and the individual Five Cs of PYD consistently correlate with important criterion measures (i.e., contribution, depressive symptoms, and problem behaviors) in expected ways. Although our results suggest weak relationships among our three criteria, we especially note that across adolescence PYD becomes more strongly correlated with contribution but less strongly correlated with depressive symptoms, and that confidence becomes more strongly related to depressive symptoms. We discuss implications for use of the present PYD measure in youth development programs. AbstractAs developmental scientists cease to perceive adolescence as a period of turmoil and

show abstract

“…A wide range of PYD approaches have described the formation of a positive and coherent sense of identity as a core component of positive psychosocial development during adolescence targeted by PYD programs (Benson, Mannes, Pittman, & Ferber, 2004;Catalano, Berglund, Ryan, Lonczak, & Hawkins, 1999Lerner, 2005;Lerner et al, 2005;Montgomery, Kurtines, et al, 2008). These approaches have largely drawn on Erikson's (1963Erikson's ( , 1968, description of the identity crisis as the central developmental challenge of adolescence.…”

Section: Research Analysesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The Search Institute (Benson, 2002;Benson, Mannes, Pittman, & Ferber, 2004;Benson, Scales, Hamilton, & Sesma, 2006;Scales, 1999), for example, has conceptualized the formation of a positive identity as a type of internal developmental asset focused on the development of personal power or sense of control, self-esteem, sense of purpose, and a positive view of the future (Scales, 1999). Lerner and colleagues (Lerner, 2005;Lerner et al, 2005) Both developmental assets and Five Cs models have thus conceptualized positive identity as a primarily internal attribute, one that is more closely aligned with values, skills, and competencies than with the relationships and opportunities available to youth.…”

Section: A Positive Identity Is a Developmental Assetmentioning

confidence: 99%

An Investigation of Multiple Pathways of Developmental Intervention Change

Eichas¹

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Youth Development, Developmental Assets, and Public Policy

Cited by 69 publications

References 43 publications

Positive youth development programs for mental health promotion in Indian youth: an underutilized pathway

Positive youth development programs for mental health promotion in Indian youth: an underutilized pathway

Longitudinal Analysis of a Very Short Measure of Positive Youth Development

An Investigation of Multiple Pathways of Developmental Intervention Change

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About