The promise of adolescence : realizing opportunity for all youth / National Academies of Sciences, Engineer (Washington, District of Columbia) ; Richard J. Bonnie and Emily P. Backes, editors.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

National Academies of Sciences, Engineer (Washington, District of Columbia), author.

Contributor:

Bonnie, Richard J., editor.

Backes, Emily P., editor.

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (U.S.). Board on Children, Youth, and Families, issuing body.

National Academies Press (U.S.), printer.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Youth development--United States--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Youth development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (493 pages)

Place of Publication:

Washington, District of Columbia : 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:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-309-49011-1

0-309-49009-X