Rainer K. Silbereisen & Richard M. Lerner 
Approaches to Positive Youth Development [EPUB ebook] 

PART ONE: INTRODUCTION
PART TWO: MODELS OF POSITIVE DEVELOPMENT IN ADOLESCENCE AND YOUNG ADULTHOOD – Rainer K Silbereisen and Richard M Lerner
Developmental Assets – Peter Benson
An Overview of Theory, Research and Practice
Civic Engagement as an Expression of Positive Youth Development – Lonnie Sherrod
Empathy-related Responding – Nancy Eisenberg
Its Role in Positive Development and Socialization Correlates
Soci(et)al Scaffolding of Individual Growth Across the Life Span – Jutta Heckhausen
PART THREE: MULTIPLE CONTEXTS OF POSITIVE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT
Perceived Social Inequity and Responses to Conflict among Diverse Youth of Color – Davido Dupree et al
The Effects of Social and Physical Context on Youth Behavior and Attitudes
Not You! Not Here! Not Now! – Jacquelynne S Eccles and Corinne Alfeld
Life Chances and Opportunities in Times of Social Change – Ingrid Schoon
Evidence from Two British Birth Cohorts
Social Control and Adolescent Development – John H Laub et al
A View from Life-Course Criminology
Social Support and Positive Development – Karen S Mooney et al
Looking on the Bright Side of Adolescent Close Relationships
The Long Way to Entrepreneurship – Eva Schmitt-Rodermund
Personality, Parenting, Early Interests and Competencies as Precursors for Entrepreneurial Activity among the `Termites′
PART FOUR: INTERVENTIONS AND SOCIAL POLICY
Adolescent Spirituality and Positive Youth Development – Pamela Ebstyne King
A Look at Religion, Social Capital and Moral Functioning
Youth Political Activism – Constance Flanagan et al
Sources of Public Hope in the Context of Globalization
Macrosocial Worries as a Source of Positive Youth Development – Klaus Boehnke et al
Results of a 20-Year Longitudinal Study and Policy Implications
From `I′ to `We′ – Reed Larson
Development of the Capacity for Teamwork in Youth Programs
Prevention Against Substance Use – Karina Weichold
Life-skills and Positive Youth Development
Building Resources in the Context of Socio-Economic Disadvantage – Cigdem Kagitcibasi
Lessons from Research for Social Policies

Richard M. Lerner is the Bergstrom Chair in Applied Developmental Science and the Director of the Applied Developmental Science Institute in the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development at Tufts University. A developmental psychologist, Lerner received a Ph.D. in 1971 from the City University of New York. He has been a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Psychological Association, and American Psychological Society. Prior to joining Tufts University, he held administrative posts at Michigan State University, Pennsylvania State University, and Boston College, where he was the Anita L. Brennan Professor of Education and the Director of the Center for Child, Family, and Community Partnerships. In 1994-95, he held the Tyner Eminent Scholar Chair in the Human Sciences at Florida State University. He is author or editor of 55 books and more than 360 scholarly articles and chapters. He edited Volume 1 (Theoretical Models of Human Development) for the fifth edition of the Handbook of Child Psychology. He is the founding editor of the Journal of Research on Adolescence and Applied Developmental Science. He is known for his theory of, and research about, relations between life-span human development and contextual or ecological change. Lerner has done foundational studies of adolescents’ relations with their peer, family, school, and community contexts and is a leader in the study of public policies and community-based programs aimed at the promotion of positive youth development. With Sage, he authored America’s Youth in Crisis: Challenges and Options for Programs and Policies (1995), co-edited the four-volume Handbook of Applied Developmental Science, and is co-editing the two-volume Encyclopedia of Applied Developmental Science.