PMID- 31572041 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE LR - 20201001 IS - 1179-318X (Print) IS - 1179-318X (Electronic) IS - 1179-318X (Linking) VI - 10 DP - 2019 TI - Positive youth development: current perspectives. PG - 131-141 LID - 10.2147/AHMT.S179946 [doi] AB - This review outlines the current perspectives on positive youth development (PYD). Besides presenting the diverse theoretical roots contributing to PYD approaches, this review also introduces several PYD perspectives, including Benson's 40 developmental assets, Lerner's 5Cs and 6Cs conceptions, Catalano's 15 PYD constructs, social-emotional learning (SEL) and the "being" perspective (character and spirituality). A comparison of the different PYD models in terms of theoretical orientation, the role of community, spirituality, character/morality, thriving, "being" versus "doing" and origin is also presented. The review suggests three future research directions, including the development of spirituality and character approaches to PYD, differentiating the role of "being" versus "doing" in PYD and construction of PYD models as well as conducting related research in non-Western contexts. CI - (c) 2019 Shek et al. FAU - Shek, Daniel Tl AU - Shek DT AD - Department of Applied Social Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China. FAU - Dou, Diya AU - Dou D AD - Department of Applied Social Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China. FAU - Zhu, Xiaoqin AU - Zhu X AD - Department of Applied Social Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China. FAU - Chai, Wenyu AU - Chai W AD - Department of Applied Social Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20190918 PL - New Zealand TA - Adolesc Health Med Ther JT - Adolescent health, medicine and therapeutics JID - 101576821 PMC - PMC6756153 OTO - NOTNLM OT - PYD OT - adolescents OT - review OT - strength-based perspective COIS- The authors report no conflicts of interest in this work. EDAT- 2019/10/02 06:00 MHDA- 2019/10/02 06:01 PMCR- 2019/09/18 CRDT- 2019/10/02 06:00 PHST- 2019/01/21 00:00 [received] PHST- 2019/08/17 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2019/10/02 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2019/10/02 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2019/10/02 06:01 [medline] PHST- 2019/09/18 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 179946 [pii] AID - 10.2147/AHMT.S179946 [doi] PST - epublish SO - Adolesc Health Med Ther. 2019 Sep 18;10:131-141. doi: 10.2147/AHMT.S179946. eCollection 2019.