Youth development (Topical Term)

Work cat.: Youth development guide, 2001: glossary, p. xv (Youth development refers to the process through which all young people seek ways to meet their basic physical and social needs and to build knowledge and skills necessary to succeed in adolescence and young adulthood. )

National Youth Development Information Center web site, Nov. 5, 2002 (A process which prepares young people to meet the challenges of adolescence and adulthood through a coordinated, progressive series of activities and experiences which help them to become socially, morally, emotionally, physically, and cognitively competent.)

Center for Youth Development and Policy Research web site, Nov. 5, 2002: Pittman, 1993, p. 8 (... the ongoing growth process in which all youth are engaged in attempting to (1) meet their basic personal and social needs to be safe, feel cared for, be valued, be useful, and be spiritually grounded, and (2) to build skills and competencies that allow them to function and contribute in their daily lives.)

Building assets in youth [videorecording] : the power of positive youth development, 1994.

Lessons learned, lessons shared: reflections from the International Learning Group on Youth and Community Development, 2001 (Community & youth development series)

Adolescent & family health. Institute for Youth development [serial].

Youth development and community development, 1997.

Volunteerism : a professional research and knowledge taxonomy for youth development, 1990.

Service learning, 1997. Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of education (Service learning as a vehicle for youth development/Shepherd Zeldin)

ERIC Thesaurus, 14th ed., 2001

Here are entered works on the physical, psychological, and social growth of normal youth.