Institute for Applied Research in Youth Development, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, USA.
Adv Child Dev Behav. 2011;41:1-17. doi: 10.1016/b978-0-12-386492-5.00001-4.
Interests in the strengths of youth, the plasticity of human development, and the concept of resilience coalesced in the 1990s to foster the development of the concept of positive youth development (PYD). This chapter presents the features of the relational developmental systems theoretical model of the PYD developmental process, and then uses this model to describe the scholarship in the present volume. These contributions suggest that all young people have strengths that may be capitalized on to promote thriving across the adolescent years. We conclude that the findings reported in this volume provide a basis for optimism that evidence-based actions can be taken to enhance the chances for thriving among all young people.
对年轻人优势、人类发展可塑性以及适应力概念的关注在 20 世纪 90 年代汇聚到一起，促进了积极青年发展（positive youth development，简称 PYD）概念的发展。本章介绍了 PYD 发展过程中关系发展系统理论模型的特点，然后使用该模型来描述本卷中的学术研究。这些研究表明，所有年轻人都有可以被利用的优势，这些优势可以促进青少年时期的茁壮成长。我们得出的结论是，本卷报告的研究结果为我们提供了一个乐观的基础，即可以采取基于证据的行动，提高所有年轻人茁壮成长的机会。
