Positive Youth Development in the United States: Research Findings on Evaluations of Positive Youth Development Programs

By R. Catalano, M. Berglund, J. Ryan, H. Lonczak, J. Hawkins. 2004

2,143 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, General Health Professions, Safety Research

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In Clinical Psychology

1. K. Weare
2. N. Humphrey
3. Ann Lendrum
4. P. Tolan
5. Katherine M. Ross
6. L. Liebenberg
7. R. Lerner
8. L. Theron

In General Health Professions

1. L. Liebenberg
2. L. Theron
3. G. Connelly
4. Ann Lendrum
5. N. Humphrey
6. Jodie L. Roth
7. J. Durlak
8. M. Ungar

In Safety Research

1. J. Lerner
2. R. Larson
3. S. Vella
4. R. Lerner
5. N. Holt
6. L. Oades
7. T. Crowe
8. Jodi Dworkin

Citations in the corpus

• How Schools Enhance the Development of Young People’s Resilience (2019, background): “…largely because of the easy access they provide to youth and the link between academic success, school engagement and other child development goals like self-esteem and self-efficacy (Catalano et al. 1999, 2004; Greenberg et al. 2003; Hart and Heaver 2012; Lynch et al. 2004; Ungar et al. 2014;).”
• A Framework for Planning Youth Sport Programs That Foster Psychosocial Development (2005, neutral): “Catalano et al. (2002) stated that the vast majority of programs lack adequate evaluation plans and, of those that have plans, few evaluated outcomes beyond the conclusion of the program.”
• What Exactly Is a Youth Development Program? Answers From Research and Practice (2003, methodology): “We adapted operational definitions provided by Catalano et al. (1999) and the National Research Council (2002) to investigate three dimensions of program atmosphere—supportive, empowering, and expecting (see Roth & Brooks-Gunn, in press b, for more details).”
• Learning to BREATHE: A Pilot Trial of a Mindfulness Curriculum for Adolescents (2009, background): “Good prevention programs are rooted in a fundamental understanding of human development, namely that the developmental work of childhood and adolescence is facilitated in circumstances that promote resilience (Catalano et al, 2004).”
• Conflict resolution education: The field, the findings, and the future (2004, background): “They cite a metaanalysis of 161 positive youth development programs (Catalano and others, 2000) that indicates SEL programs make a difference in improvements”
• An integrative review of sport-based youth development literature (2017, background): “While multiple models have been proposed to explain PYD (Benson et al. 1999; Catalano et al. 2004; Eccles and Gootman 2002; Lerner et al. 2012; Scales and Leffert 1999), each share a common emphasis on the duality between individual and context, and the idea that positive development manifests as…”
• Positive Youth Development: Processes, Programs, and Problematics (2011, background): “Moreover, Catalano et al. (1999, 2004) specified the set of positive outcomes that effective youth programs fostered.”