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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.
- Title
- 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.
- Author
- National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (U.S.). Committee on the Neurobiological and Socio-behavioral Science of Adolescent Development and Its Applications, author.
- Publication
- Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, [2019]
- ©2019
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- Description
- xxi, 467 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "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's description
- 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.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-444).
- 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
- ISBN
- 0309490081
- 9780309490085
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries