To help evaluate youth programmes, measure how well they have been implemented, and determine whether they have had their intended impact.

After-school programs, scout groups, community service activities, religious youth groups, and other community-based activities have long been thought to play a

This edited text focuses on positive approaches to youth development that are rapidly supplanting the traditional deficit-oriented, problem-reduction approach.

In Massachusetts, a 12-year-old girl delivering newspapers is killed when a car strikes her bicycle. In Los Angeles, a 14-year-old boy repeatedly falls asleep i

"In recent years, the fields of psychology and human development have focused growing attention on issues of positive youth development. . . . This volume provi