PMID- 23259186 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20130205 LR - 20191112 IS - 0065-2407 (Print) IS - 0065-2407 (Linking) VI - 41 DP - 2011 TI - Positive youth development: research and applications for promoting thriving in adolescence. PG - 1-17 AB - Interests in the strengths of youth, the plasticity of human development, and the concept of resilience coalesced in the 1990s to foster the development of the concept of positive youth development (PYD). This chapter presents the features of the relational developmental systems theoretical model of the PYD developmental process, and then uses this model to describe the scholarship in the present volume. These contributions suggest that all young people have strengths that may be capitalized on to promote thriving across the adolescent years. We conclude that the findings reported in this volume provide a basis for optimism that evidence-based actions can be taken to enhance the chances for thriving among all young people. FAU - Lerner, Richard M AU - Lerner RM AD - Institute for Applied Research in Youth Development, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, USA. FAU - Lerner, Jacqueline V AU - Lerner JV FAU - Benson, Janette B AU - Benson JB LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PT - Review PL - United States TA - Adv Child Dev Behav JT - Advances in child development and behavior JID - 0370417 SB - IM MH - Adolescent MH - Evidence-Based Practice MH - Humans MH - Individuality MH - *Interpersonal Relations MH - Models, Psychological MH - *Personality Development MH - Psychological Theory MH - *Psychology, Adolescent MH - Research MH - *Resilience, Psychological MH - Social Environment EDAT- 2011/01/01 00:00 MHDA- 2013/02/06 06:00 CRDT- 2012/12/25 06:00 PHST- 2012/12/25 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2011/01/01 00:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2013/02/06 06:00 [medline] AID - 10.1016/b978-0-12-386492-5.00001-4 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Adv Child Dev Behav. 2011;41:1-17. doi: 10.1016/b978-0-12-386492-5.00001-4.