TY - JOUR
AU - Dodgen, Daniel W.
AB - Research evidence that has accumulated over the past 2 decades from several academic disciplines has catalyzed a strengths-based approach to understanding individual, family, and community development. In the past, research and policy development typically emphasized the individual vulnerabilities, deficits, pathology, deviance, or risk factors associated with negative outcomes for children or families. In contrast, a strengths-based approach seeks to illuminate and understand the individual and environmental characteristics and protective processes that create and support positive developmental outcomes. The need for broader, more integrated theories of individual, family, and community development has also pushed researchers to collaborate across disciplines and to consider the linkages among viable communities, well-functioning families, and individual well-being. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)
TI - Investing in children, youth, families, and communities:  Strengths-based research and policy.: Research and policy for building strengths: Processes and contexts of individual, family, and community development.
DA - 2005-03-14
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/american-psychological-association/investing-in-children-youth-families-and-communities-strengths-based-U8QswKMLBZ
DP - DeepDyve
ER -