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Title The youth development handbook : coming of age in American communities / editors Stephen F. Hamilton, Mary Agnes Hamilton
Published Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 408 pages)
Contents Introduction: what is youth development? -- Principles for youth development / Stephen F. Hamilton, Mary Agnes Hamilton, and Karen Pittman -- Processes and practices in youth development contexts -- Youth organizations: from principles to practice / Sarah Deschenes, Morva McDonald, and Milbrey McLaughlin -- Organizations serving all ages / Geoffrey L. Ream and Peter A. Witt -- Bridging juvenile justice and positive youth development / William H. Barton -- Youth development and health / Richard E. Kreipe, Sheryl Ryan, and Susan Seibold-Simpson -- Can high schools foster youth development? / Jerome M. Ziegler -- Designing work and service for learning / Mary Agnes Hamilton and Stephen F. Hamilton -- Using and building family strengths to promote youth development / Catherine P. Bradshaw and James Garbarino -- Enlisting peers in developmental interventions: principles and practices / Michael J. Karcher, B. Radford Brown, and Douglas W. Elliott -- How neighborhoods matter for youth development / Ray Swisher and Janis Whitlock -- Popular media culture and the promise of critical media literacy / Jane D. Brown, Rebecca Schaffer, Lucila Vargas, and Lahoma S. Romocki -- Action steps -- Success factors in community-wide initiatives for youth development / Kathleen A. Dorgan and Ronald F. Ferguson -- Understanding and improving youth development initiatives through evaluation / Charles V. Izzo, James P. Connell, Michelle A. Gambone, and Catherine P. Bradshaw -- Understanding the lay of the land: strategies for funding youth development programs / Glenda L. Partee -- Implications for youth development practices / Stephen F. Hamilton and Mary Agnes Hamilton -- Index
Summary This book gives students and practitioners in development psychology access to current theory and research along with illustrations of good practice. The main section is organized around the contexts in which adolescents grow up. The next section addresses evaluation, funding, and community-wide initiatives. The concluding chapter identifies multidisciplinary themes
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Subject Youth -- Services for -- United States
Social work with youth -- United States
Social adjustment.
Social service.
Adolescent Development
Social Adjustment
Social Work
Adolescent
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
Social service
Social adjustment
Social work with youth
Youth -- Services for
SUBJECT United States
Subject United States
Form Electronic book
Author Hamilton, Stephen F
Hamilton, Mary Agnes
LC no. 2003013110
ISBN 9781452264288
1452264287
9781452232560
1452232563
132241761X
9781322417615
1506319920
9781506319926