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Professional fields that combine study and practice usually change gradually and only after stiff resistance. It took Western jurisprudence hundreds of years to move from a system of judicial fiat to verification through trial by juries of peers. Even in the face of managed care, medicine still clings (somewhat desperately) to models of clinical research and doctor-patient relations that have guided it for more than two millennia. Yet our own field of youth development has encountered nothing less than a sea change in a remarkably short period of time—a decade at most, barely the blink of an eye in a field’s history. All the more remarkable (considering the profound nature of the change), it has been a quiet revolution, with relatively little fanfare or conflict.
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Damon, W., Gregory, A. (2003). Bringing in a New Era in the Field of Youth Development. In: Lerner, R.M., Benson, P.L. (eds) Developmental Assets and Asset-Building Communities. The Search Institute Series on Developmentally Attentive Community and Society, vol 1. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0091-9_3
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