Document Type
Book
Publication Date
6-2014
Abstract
This chapter provides an overview of advances in developmental intervention science that have contributed to an emerging literature on identity-focused positive youth development interventions. Rooted in the tradition of applied developmental science, developmental intervention science aims to advance the evolution of sustainable developmental intervention strategies targeting positive developmental outcomes. These developmental intervention strategies are intended to complement the wide array of well-established treatment and prevention intervention strategies targeting risky and problem behaviors. Within this framework, positive identity interventions seek to create empowering intervention contexts that promote the development of an increasingly integrated—and therefore an increasingly complex, coherent, and cohesive—self-constructed self-structure. By linking applied developmental science with treatment and prevention intervention science, developmental intervention science appears to have significant potential for facilitating the evolution of evidence-based positive development strategies for promoting positive life course change.
Recommended Citation
Eichas, Kyle E; Meca, Alan; Montgomery, Marilyn J.; and Kurtines, William, "Identity and Positive Youth Development: Advances in Developmental Intervention Science" (2014). Faculty Publications - Graduate School of Counseling. 83.
https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/gsc/83
Comments
This is a draft of a chapter/article that has been accepted for publication by Oxford University Press in the forthcoming book The Oxford handbook of identity development by/edited by Eichas, K., Meeca, A., Montgomery, M. J. & Kurtines, W. M. due for publication in 2014.
https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199936564.013.020