Convergence of a Strengths Perspective and Youth Development: Toward Youth Promotion Practice (1 Credit Hour)
Program Summary: This article discusses the development of the strengths perspective and positive youth development. It seeks to combine these two practices toward a youth promotion practice.
This course is recommended for social workers and is appropriate for beginning, intermediate, and advanced levels of practice.
Author: Jeong Woong Cheon
Publisher: Advances in Social Work, Indiana University School of Social Work
Find the article at: http://journals.iupui.edu/index.php/advancesinsocialwork/article/view/5/202
Program Objectives: To enhance social work values, practice, skills, and knowledge by promoting a strengths-focused understanding of adolescence and youth.
Learning Objectives: Describe historical views of adolescence and youth. Describe the evolution of the strengths perspective and positive youth development. Identify similarities of the strengths perspective and positive youth development. Identify key principles of a youth promotion practice.
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