Authoritative Communities The Scientific Case for Nurturing the Whol
Authoritative Communities: The Scientific Case for Nurturing the Whole Child introduces innovative solutions based firmly in the children’s mental health and resilience literature and in the hypothesis that humans are "hardwired to connect." The
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The Search Institute Series on Developmentally Attentive Community and Society Series Editor Peter L. Benson, Search Institute, Minneapolis, Minnesota Series Mission To advance interdisciplinary inquiry into the individual, system, community, and societal dynamics that promote developmental strengths; and the processes for mobilizing these dynamics on behalf of children and adolescents.
DEVELOPMENTAL ASSETS AND ASSET-BUILDING COMMUNITIES: Implications for Research, Policy, and Practice Edited by Richard M. Lerner and Peter L. Benson
OTHER PEOPLE’S KIDS: Social Expectations and American Adults’ Involvement with Children Peter C. Scales with Peter L. Benson, Marc Mannes, Nicole R. Hintz, Eugene C. Roehlkepartain, and Theresa K. Sullivan
WHAT DO CHILDREN NEED TO FLOURISH? Conceptualizing and Measuring Indicators of Positive Development Edited by Kristin Anderson Moore and Laura H. Lippman
MOBILIZING ADULTS FOR POSITIVE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT: Strategies for Closing the Gap between Beliefs and Behaviors Edited by E. Gil Clary and Jean E. Rhodes
AUTHORITATIVE COMMUNITIES: The Scientific Case for Nurturing the Whole Child Edited by Kathleen Kovner Kline
A Continuation Order Plan is available for this series. A continuation order will bring delivery of each new volume immediately upon publication. Volumes are billed only upon actual shipment. For further information please contact the publisher.
Kathleen Kovner Kline Editor
Authoritative Communities The Scientific Case for Nurturing the Whole Child
Kathleen Kovner Kline, M.D. Dartmouth Medical School Hanover, NH 03755 [email protected]
ISBN 978-0-387-72720-2
e-ISBN 978-0-387-72721-9
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Series Preface
As a society, we have lost our focus when it comes to nurturing our youngest generations. We either neglect the young altogether, attending only to more powerful voting blocs or larger demographic groups, or we wring hands over one crisis or another. Rarely do we invest enough time or resources to turn the tide on any of the challenges before us. This book series seeks to offer an alternate, more hopeful focus. Instead of just investing in individual problems (often with little success), this series
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