Promoting Positive Development in Early Childhood Building Blocks for a Successful start /

• Main Author: VanderVen, Karen (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2008.
• Series: The Search Institute Series on Developmentally Attentive Community and Society ; 6
• Subjects: Psychology.; Education.; Social work.; Child psychology.; School psychology.; Child and School Psychology.; Education, general.; Social Work.

The formative years – ages three through five – are critical to building a solid foundation for children’s long-term success. And although the relationship between children and parents is central to healthy development, a variety of community members and institutions – schools, programs, neighborhoo...

Table of Contents:

• The External Assets
• The Support Assets
• The Empowerment Assets
• The Boundaries-and-Expectations Assets
• The Constructive-Use-of-Time Assets
• The Internal Assets
• The Commitment-to-Learning Assets
• The Positive Values Assets
• The Social-Competencies Assets
• The Positive-Identity Assets
• The Conceptualization of the Early Childhood Developmental Assets Framework
• The Early Childhood Developmental Assets Framework as Intervention: Theoretical and Knowledge Base
• Emergent Perspectives on the Early Childhood Developmental Assets Framework
• Pathways Toward the Future and the Early Childhood Developmental Assets Framework.