Developmental Assets and Asset-Building Communities

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A Positive Youth Development Model for Students Considered At-Risk (2007, methodology): “Researchers from the Search Institute designed the developmental assets framework in an effort to identify and enhance variables that contribute to healthy child development and positive outcomes (Benson, 2003; Lerner and Benson, 2003).”
Positive Indicators of Child Well-Being: A Conceptual Framework, Measures, and Methodological Issues (2011, background): “Indeed, over the past 15 years, a theoretical shift has occurred in understanding the development of children and adolescents − their needs and behaviours and how to support optimal development (Larson, 2000; Lerner and Benson 2004; Lerner and Steinberg 2004; Peter C. Scales and Benson 2005; P. C. S”
Annual Research Review: What is resilience within the social ecology of human development? (2013, background): “For example, much has been written about the connection between values transmission between parents and children and prosociality (Lerner & Benson, 2003), and between participation in religious organizations and children’s delay of sexual initiation (Belgrave, Oss Marin, & van Chambers, 2000;…”
The Chinese Positive Youth Development Scale (2007, background): “The second approach is termed the “positive youth development approach,” which focuses on assets, abilities, and potentials of adolescents (Benson, Mannes, Pittman, & Ferber, 2004; Lerner & Benson, 2003).”