Title

Promoting Positive Youth Development: New Directions In Developmental Theory, Methods, And Research

Keywords

Applied developmental science; Community-supported interventions; Developmental intervention science; Positive youth development; Program evaluation research

Abstract

The articles in this special issue report the efforts of the Miami Youth Development Project (YDP), a community-supported positive youth development program of outreach research that draws on a developmental intervention science (DIS) perspective (i.e., a fusion of the developmental and intervention science literatures). These reports illustrate how the application of DIS outreach research contributes to knowledge of human development at all levels (practical as well as methodological, theoretical, and metatheoretical). Consistent with a DIS outreach research approach, YDP is committed to the use of descriptive and explanatory knowledge about changes within human systems that occur across the life span in the development of evidence-based individual and institutional longitudinal change intervention strategies in promoting long-term developmental change. The evolution of the Miami YDP illustrates the value of DIS outreach research "in action". © 2008 Sage Publications.

Publication Date

5-1-2008

Publication Title

Journal of Adolescent Research

Volume

23

Issue

3

Number of Pages

233-244

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1177/0743558408314372

Socpus ID

42149131469 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/42149131469

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