TY - JOUR
T1 - Addressing the challenges and opportunities for today's youth
T2 - Toward an integrative model and its implications for research and intervention
AU - Schwartz, Seth J.
AU - Pantin, Hilda
AU - Coatsworth, J. Douglas
AU - Szapocznik, José
N1 - Funding Information:
Preparation of this article was supported by National Institute on Drug Abuse grants 19409 (S. Schwartz, PI) and 17262 (H. Pantin, PI), and by National Institute on Mental Health grant 63042 (J. Szapocznik, PI). We gratefully acknowledge Richard M. Lerner and Mark T. Greenberg for their helpful and insightful feedback.
PY - 2007/4
Y1 - 2007/4
N2 - This article calls for, and proposes some tenets of, model building in adolescent psychosocial development. Specifically, it is suggested that there is a need for a model that draws from the risk-protection approach, from which many prevention science approaches are drawn, and the applied developmental science perspective, from which many positive youth development approaches are drawn. The model to be built, and the integration it proposes, is based in the overlap between protective factors and developmental assets (drawn from the applied developmental science and positive youth development perspectives), as well as on the complementarity of the intrapersonal mechanisms proposed within the two perspectives. The article also poses important questions for future research and presents an empirical agenda for addressing these questions in the service of building and testing a model of adolescent psychosocial development and of integrating the prevention and positive youth development approaches to intervention and policy. Editors' Strategic Implications: The authors propose an innovative, integrative model that will be useful to preventionists in areas beyond the adolescent development example described in the article. This kind of developmental focus in prevention research is long overdue.
AB - This article calls for, and proposes some tenets of, model building in adolescent psychosocial development. Specifically, it is suggested that there is a need for a model that draws from the risk-protection approach, from which many prevention science approaches are drawn, and the applied developmental science perspective, from which many positive youth development approaches are drawn. The model to be built, and the integration it proposes, is based in the overlap between protective factors and developmental assets (drawn from the applied developmental science and positive youth development perspectives), as well as on the complementarity of the intrapersonal mechanisms proposed within the two perspectives. The article also poses important questions for future research and presents an empirical agenda for addressing these questions in the service of building and testing a model of adolescent psychosocial development and of integrating the prevention and positive youth development approaches to intervention and policy. Editors' Strategic Implications: The authors propose an innovative, integrative model that will be useful to preventionists in areas beyond the adolescent development example described in the article. This kind of developmental focus in prevention research is long overdue.
KW - Adolescents
KW - Applied developmental science
KW - Intervention
KW - Positive youth development
KW - Prevention
KW - Protection
KW - Risk
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U2 - 10.1007/s10935-007-0084-x
DO - 10.1007/s10935-007-0084-x
M3 - Review article
C2 - 17333381
AN - SCOPUS:33947228311
VL - 28
SP - 117
EP - 144
JO - Journal of Primary Prevention
JF - Journal of Primary Prevention
SN - 0278-095X
IS - 2
ER -