Bobby Gilliam, Bobby Gilliam, Don Scott
The authors discuss various paradigms and treatment strategies in work with troubled youth. They propose a shift from traditional approaches that stress deficits and pathology toward strength-based interventions based on positive development. Traditional approaches have not succeeded because they fail to mobilize the positive resources of youth. The authors describe a range of specific innovations in program development that result when research on resilience becomes the basis of interventions.
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