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After-School Programs to Promote Positive Youth Development

- Integrating Research into Practice and Policy, Volume 1
Engelsk Paperback

After-School Programs to Promote Positive Youth Development

- Integrating Research into Practice and Policy, Volume 1
Engelsk Paperback
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The first volume of this SpringerBrief presents a series of papers compiled from a conference about how after-school programs may be implemented to promote positive youth development (PYD) hosted by Youth-Nex, the University of Virginia Center to Promote Effective Youth Development. This volume reviews the importance of after-school programs for PYD and discusses key components of effective after-school programs. It also discusses issues related to the evaluation and measurement of quality in after-school programs. In addition, the brief presents suggestions for how researchers, policy makers, and practitioners can move the field forward and maximize the potential of after-school time and programs for promoting positive youth development for children and adolescents.

Topics featured in this brief include:
  • The history of the relationship between after-school programs and positive youth development.
  • Specific features of programs that are important for advancing positive youth development.
  • Issues in and approaches to measuring quality in after-school programs.
  • The Quality, Engagement, Skills, Transfer (QuEST) model and its use for measuring effective after-school programs.
  • A case study evaluation of the Girls on the Run program.
After-School Programs to Promote Positive Youth Development, Volume 1, is a must-have resource for policy makers and related professionals, graduate students, and researchers in child and school psychology, family studies, public health, social work, law/criminal justice, and sociology.

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The first volume of this SpringerBrief presents a series of papers compiled from a conference about how after-school programs may be implemented to promote positive youth development (PYD) hosted by Youth-Nex, the University of Virginia Center to Promote Effective Youth Development. This volume reviews the importance of after-school programs for PYD and discusses key components of effective after-school programs. It also discusses issues related to the evaluation and measurement of quality in after-school programs. In addition, the brief presents suggestions for how researchers, policy makers, and practitioners can move the field forward and maximize the potential of after-school time and programs for promoting positive youth development for children and adolescents.

Topics featured in this brief include:
  • The history of the relationship between after-school programs and positive youth development.
  • Specific features of programs that are important for advancing positive youth development.
  • Issues in and approaches to measuring quality in after-school programs.
  • The Quality, Engagement, Skills, Transfer (QuEST) model and its use for measuring effective after-school programs.
  • A case study evaluation of the Girls on the Run program.
After-School Programs to Promote Positive Youth Development, Volume 1, is a must-have resource for policy makers and related professionals, graduate students, and researchers in child and school psychology, family studies, public health, social work, law/criminal justice, and sociology.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 71
ISBN-13: 9783319591315
Indbinding: Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 3319591312
Udg. Dato: 13 jul 2017
Længde: 9mm
Bredde: 241mm
Højde: 158mm
Forlag: Springer International Publishing AG
Oplagsdato: 13 jul 2017
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Kategori Sociologi: familie og relationer


ISBN-13 9783319591315


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 71


Udgave


Længde 9mm


Bredde 241mm


Højde 158mm


Udg. Dato 13 jul 2017


Oplagsdato 13 jul 2017


Forlag Springer International Publishing AG

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