Brett Brown (ed.)

Key Indicators of Child and Youth Well-Being

Completing the Picture
Herausgeber: Brown, Brett V.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Indicators of child and youth well-being are indispensable tools for improving the lives of children. In this book, the nation's leading development researchers review the recent progress made in the measurement, collection, dissemination, and use of indicators of child and youth well-being. In addition, they identify opportunities for future research to expand and improve on the indicator data available, so as to develop greater measures of positive development. The first eleven chapters cover key indicators in the areas of health, education, social, and emotional development and then social context indicators of the family, peers, school, and the community. The book then goes on to demonstrate the use of indicators for influencing policy at the state and local levels. One chapter discusses how social indicators were used to guide welfare reform and another recounts the use of the indicators to guide local planning. The volume concludes with a discussion of summary indices of well-being and the methodological challenges of constructing such indices. Written in an accessible manner for policy makers, practitioners, and researchers concerned with children's well-being, including experts in developmental, social, community, and educational psychology, the book also serves as a supplementary text in public policy and the social sciences. The policy chapters will be of particular interest to those who use child and youth indicators to guide policy development.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Psychology Press
• Seitenzahl: 528
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. August 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 909g
• ISBN-13: 9780805848090
• ISBN-10: 0805848096
• Artikelnr.: 22320218

Autorenporträt

Brett V. Brown

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: Indicators of Child and Youth Well-Being: Completing the Picture. B. Brown
Introduction: About the Chapters. Part 1. Health Indicators. D.P. Hogan
M.E. Msall
Key Indicators of Health and Safety: Infancy
Pre-School
and Middle Childhood. M.W. Stagner
J.M. Zweig
Indicators of Youth Health and Well-Being: Taking the Long View. Part 2. Education Indicators. T. Halle
M. Reidy
M. Moorehouse
M. Zaslow
C. Walsh
J. Calkins
N.G. Margie
A. Dent
Progress in the Development of Indicators of School Readiness. A. Flanagan
D. Grissmer
What Do National and State NAEP Scores Tell Us About the Achievement of American K-12 Students. Part 3. Social and Emotional Development Indicators. M. Ripke
A.C. Huston
J. Eccles
J. Templeton
The Assessment of Psychological
Emotional
and Social Development Indicators in Middle Childhood. J.L. Roth
C.J. Borbely
J. Brooks-Gunn
Developing Indicators of Confidence
Character
and Caring in Adolescents. J. Eccles
B. Brown
J. Templeton
A Developmental Framework for Selecting Indicators of Well-Being During the Adolescent and Young Adult Years. Part 4. Social Context of Development Indicators. G.D. Sandefur
A. Meier
The Family Environment: Structure
Material Resources
and Child Care. K.M. Harris
S. Cavanagh
Indicators of the Peer Environment in Adolesence. D. Mayer
J. Ralph
Key Indicators of School Quality. J.D. Morenoff
R.J. Sampson
Constructing Community Indicators of Child Well-Being. Part 5. Child and Youth Indicators in Practice. T. Corbett
Social Indicators as Policy Tool: Welfare Reform as a Case Study. D. Murphey
Creating Community Capacity to Use Social Indicators. Part 6. Social Indices of Child Well-Being. K.C. Land
V.L. Lamb
S.K. Mustillo
Child and Youth Well-Being in the United States
1975-1998: Some Findings From a New Index. N.G. Bennett
H-H. Lu
Methodological Issues Surrounding the Construction of an Index of Child Well-Being.