Mobilizing Adults for Positive Youth Development: Strategies for Closing the Gap Between Beliefs and Behaviors

by Jean E. Rhodes and E. Gil Clary

Book Overview

Perhaps no other challenge is more pressing in creating "developmentally - tentive community and society" (the theme of this book series) than mobilizing adultstoplayactive, constructiverolesinthelivesofchildrenandadolescents.In a society that too easily defaults to designing programs as cure-alls for meeting young people's needs, particular attention must be paid to understanding and mobilizing the kind of positive, relational energy that prepares...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0387291733
• ISBN13: 9780387291734
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.5"