What Do Children Need to Flourish? Conceptualizing and Measuring Indicators of Positive Development /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Moore, Kristin Anderson (Editor), Lippman, Laura H. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2005.
• Series: The Search Institute Series on Developmentally Attentive Community and Society ; 3
• Subjects: Psychology.; Medical research.; Social sciences.; Quality of life.; Child psychology.; School psychology.; Child and School Psychology.; Social Sciences, general.; Quality of Life Research.

Regardless of its validity, many adults share a belief that today’s youth face an inauspicious future. Drugs, sex, violence, disintegration of the nuclear family, technology that replaces interpersonal relationships—that’s what you hear in the news. The media, through its dramatization of the danger...