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The promise of adolescence : realizing opportunity for all youth / Richard J. Bonnie and Emily P. Backes, editors ; Committee on the Neurobiological and Socio-behavioral Science of Adolescent Development and its Applications ; Board on Children, Youth, and Families ; Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education ; Health and Medicine Division ; National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (U.S.). Committee on the Neurobiological and Socio-behavioral Science of Adolescent Development and Its Applications, author.
- Series:
- Consensus study report
- A consensus study report of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, Medicine
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Youth development--United States--Congresses.
- Youth development.
- Child development--United States--Congresses.
- Child development.
- Youth--Health and hygiene--United States--Congresses.
- Youth.
- Youth--Psychology--Congresses.
- Youth--Services for--United States--Congresses.
- Child welfare--United States--Congresses.
- Child welfare.
- Youth--Services for.
- Youth--Psychology.
- Youth--Health and hygiene.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 467 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : The National Academies Press, [2019]
- Summary:
- Our nation's youth hold the key to our future well-being. Investing generously in them will create a "more perfect union." That is the central message of this consensus report on the "promise of adolescence" sponsored by the Funders for Adolescent Science Translation, a consortium of foundations that came together with the aim of using science to produce more equitable and positive life outcomes for youth. This report takes its place in a sequence of National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine reports exploring the science of child and adolescent development that began with From Neurons to Neighborhoods, the path-breaking Institute of Medicine study on the science of early childhood development published in 2000.
- Adolescence--beginning with the onset of puberty and ending in the mid-20s--is a critical period of development during which key areas of the brain mature and develop. These changes in brain structure, function, and connectivity mark adolescence as a period of opportunity to discover new vistas, to form relationships with peers and adults, and to explore one's developing identity. It is also a period of resilience that can ameliorate childhood setbacks and set the stage for a thriving trajectory over the life course. Because adolescents comprise nearly one-fourth of the entire U.S. population, the nation needs policies and practices that will better leverage these developmental opportunities to harness the promise of adolescence--rather than focusing myopically on containing its risks. This report examines the neurobiological and socio-behavioral science of adolescent development and outlines how this knowledge can be applied, both to promote adolescent well-being, resilience, and development, and to rectify structural barriers and inequalities in opportunity, enabling all adolescents to flourish. -- Publisher website.
- Contents:
- Summary
- Part I : Adolescence as a period of opportunity
- Introduction
- Adolescent development
- How environment "gets under the skin" : the continuous interplay between biology and environment
- Inequity and adolescence
- Part II : using developmental knowledge to assure opportunity for all youth
- Education
- Health system
- Child welfare system
- Justice system
- The scientific opportunity
- References
- Appendixes
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-444).
- Other Format:
- Electronic version: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (U.S.). Committee on the Neurobiological and Socio-behavioral Science of Adolescent Development and Its Applications. Promise of adolescence.
- ISBN:
- 9780309490085
- 0309490081
- OCLC:
- 1105719001
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