What Do Children Need to Flourish? Conceptualizing and Measuring Ind
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 m
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The Search Institute Series on Developmentally Attentive Community and Society Series Editor Peter L. Benson, Seavch 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.
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WHAT DO CHILDREN NEED TO FLOURISH? Conceptualizing and Measuring Indicators of Positive Development Edited by Kristin Anderson Moore and Laura H. Lippman
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What Do Children Need to Flourish? Conceptualizing and Measuring Indicators of Positive Development Edited by
Kristin Anderson Moore Clzild V e n d s Washington, DC
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Laura H. Lippman Clzild Trends Washington, DC
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data What do children need to flourish? : conceptualizing and measuring indicators of positive development/edited by Kristin A. Moore and Laura Lippman. p, cm. Papers presented at a conference held in Washington, D.C. in March 2003. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-387-23061-0 1. Child development-Evaluation-Congresses. I. Moore, Kristin A. 11. Lippman, Laura.
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Preface
The Search Institute Series on Developmentally Attentive Community and Society seeks to create a forum for leading scholars from many disciplines to introduce cutting-edge theo
