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The social scientific study of children is an evolving discipline, a fact that benefits society in that our knowledge about the lives of children presumably improves with every refinement of the scientific method. Among the latest and most important innovations to appear is Search Institute’s methodology of developmental assets, which offers a “set of benchmarks” for families and communities to follow to help ensure “positive child and adolescent development” (Benson, Leffert, Scales, & Blyth, 1998). The framework of developmental assets represents a huge step forward in social science because it studies positive youth development, not merely negative actions such as delinquency or drug use, and strives to characterize both “external assets” in the community and “internal assets” held by children themselves.
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Chan, B., Carlson, M., Trickett, B., Earls, F. (2003). Youth Participation: A Critical Element of Research on Child Well-Being. 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_4
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