Part I: Positive Youth Development in Global Contexts
1. Handbook of Positive Youth Development: Advancing the Next Generation of Research, Policy and Practice in Global Contexts
2. The 7Cs and Developmental Assets Models of Positive Youth Development in India, Indonesia and Pakistan
3. The 7Cs of Positive Youth Development in Colombia and Peru: A Promising Model for Reduction of Risky Behaviors among Youth and Emerging Adults
4. Promoting Mindfulness through the 7Cs of Positive Youth Development in Malaysia
5. The Five Cs Model of Positive Youth Development and the PATHS Project in Mainland China
6. Positive Youth Development and Environmental Concerns among Youth and Emerging Adults in Ghana
7. Positive Youth Development and the Big Five Personality Traits in Youth from Belize
8. Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors and the 5Cs of Positive Youth Development in Mexico
9. The Relationship between Emerging Adults and their Parents as PYD Promotive Factor in Brazil
10. Developmental Assets, Academic Achievement and Risky Behaviors among Albanians in Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia and Serbia
11. Developmental Assets and Identity among Emerging Adults in Turkey
12. Social Support among Slovene Minority and Italian Majority Youth in Italy: Links with Positive Identity, Social Competence and Academic Achievement
13. Positive Youth Development and Subjective Happiness: Examining the Mediating Role of Gratitude and Optimism in Spanish Emerging Adults
14. Positive Youth Development and Resilience among Youth in Iceland: The Importance of Social Context and Self-Esteem for Life Satisfaction
15. Parental Support, Peer Support and School Connectedness as Foundations for Student Engagement and Academic Achievement in Australian Youth
16. The 5Cs of Positive Youth Development in New Zealand: Relations with Hopeful Expectations for the Future and Life Satisfaction among Emerging Adults
17. Country and Gender Differences in Developmental Assets among Youth and Emerging Adults in Ghana and Norway
18. Positive Youth Development in Bulgaria, Italy, Norway and Romania: Testing the Factorial Structure and Measurement Invariance of the 5Cs
Part II: Positive Youth Development Applications and Interventions
19. International Collaboration in the Study of Positive Youth Development
20. Positive Youth Development in Jamaica: Latent Growth of Self-Efficacy and Youth Assets
21. Leadership Development of Zulu Male Youth in a South African Township
22. Social Emotional Learning Program from a Positive Youth Development Perspective in Slovenia
23. The Trajectories of Positive Youth Development in Lithuania: Evidence from Community and Intervention Settings
24. Positive Youth Development through Student Engagement: Associations with Well-Being
25. Capitalizing on Classroom Climate to Promote Positive Development
26. Youth Participation in the Dream School Program in Norway: An Application of a Logic Model of the Six Cs of Positive Youth Development
27. The Cultural Adaptation of Interventions to Promote Positive Development: The Preschool Edition of PATHS(R) in Sweden
28. Another Way Out: A Positive Youth Development Approach to the Study of Violent Radicalization in Québec, Canada
29. Engaging Marginalized Youth in Positive Development: The Changing Lives Program
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About the Author:
Radosveta Dimitrova holds a PhD in Developmental Psychology (University of Trieste, Italy received the best dissertation award of the Italian Association of Psychology) and a PhD in Cross-Cultural Psychology (Tilburg University, the Netherlands received the best dissertation award of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD). She is the recipient of the 2016 Scientist Award of the International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development (ISSBD) for distinguished theoretical contribution and programmatic research to the study of behavioral development and dissemination of developmental science. Her main research interests regard positive development, acculturation, migration, identity, indigenous and vulnerable ethnic minority communities, and adaptation of measures for use in different cultures. She has research and teaching experience in leading universities in the United States, the Netherlands, Japan, New Zealand, Italy, Norway, Sweden and international collaborations and projects in Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, New Zealand, North and South America. She has widely published in developmental science, cross-cultural and international psychology, human development, emerging adulthood, child and family studies and assessment fields by also serving governing councils of major organizations and editorial boards of leading journals in these fields.
Nora Wiium is an Associate Professor of Developmental Psychology at the Faculty of Psychology, University of Bergen, Norway where she obtained her PhD in Health Promotion. Her teaching and research activities regard developmental psychology, health behaviors and youth development. Since 2014 she leads an international project on Positive Youth Development (PYD) representing collaborations from over 30 countries across Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, the Middle East, North and South America and expertise from diverse scientific fields including health psychology, developmental psychology, human development, intervention and implementation science. She has co-edited a special issue on PYD across cultures in Child & Youth Care Forum and has served as a reviewer or guest editor for several journals, including Frontiers in Psychology and International Journal of Public Health.
