Hi All - the following message is from the MCEC board and Jill Greene, our
Local Arrangements Chair.
If you are going to Louisville, please join us for the
"Massachusetts CEC Kick-Off to the 2008 Convention". This
event will be Friday, April 20th from 5:00 to 7:00 at the
Galt House Hotel, in the Sampson room.
Bring friends!
Tuesday, April 03, 2007
Monday, April 02, 2007
Great presentation
Judge Baker Children's Center
Presents
2006-2007
Child Mental Health Forum
Director: Claudio O. Toppelberg, MD
Wednesdays 1:00-2:30 p.m., GYM
Judge Baker Children's Center, 53 Parker Hill Avenue, Boston, MA 02120 (Parking Available)
Wednesday, April 4, 2007; 1:00-2:30 pm
“Positive Youth Development: What Clinicians, Researchers, and Educations Need to Know”
Richard M. Lerner, PhD
Bergstrom Chair of Applied Developmental Science; Director, Institute of Applied Research in Youth Development; Eliot-Person Department of Child Development, Tufts University

“Contemporary developmental science is framed by dynamic systems theories of human development, models that emphasize the plasticity of development that derives from mutually influential relations between individuals and the multiple levels of organization of the ecology of human development. Plasticity constitutes a fundamental strength of human development and legitimates optimism that relations between individuals and contexts may be identified or promoted in order to enhance the probability of positive, healthy human development. Over the past 15 years, this strength–based approach to human development has given rise to a new vision of and approach to research and applications pertinent to adolescent development. Termed the positive youth development (PYD) perspective, this approach counters deficit models of adolescence that, in earlier eras, have been predominant conceptual lenses for research, programs, and policies pertinent to this age period. The historical and theoretical bases and key hypotheses associated with the PYD perspective, and the results of a national, longitudinal study testing the ideas associated with the PYD perspective, the 4-H Study of PYD, will be presented. Implications for research, for practice, and for advocacy in support of promoting positive development among diverse youth will be discussed.
Presents
2006-2007
Child Mental Health Forum
Director: Claudio O. Toppelberg, MD
Wednesdays 1:00-2:30 p.m., GYM
Judge Baker Children's Center, 53 Parker Hill Avenue, Boston, MA 02120 (Parking Available)
Wednesday, April 4, 2007; 1:00-2:30 pm
“Positive Youth Development: What Clinicians, Researchers, and Educations Need to Know”
Richard M. Lerner, PhD
Bergstrom Chair of Applied Developmental Science; Director, Institute of Applied Research in Youth Development; Eliot-Person Department of Child Development, Tufts University

“Contemporary developmental science is framed by dynamic systems theories of human development, models that emphasize the plasticity of development that derives from mutually influential relations between individuals and the multiple levels of organization of the ecology of human development. Plasticity constitutes a fundamental strength of human development and legitimates optimism that relations between individuals and contexts may be identified or promoted in order to enhance the probability of positive, healthy human development. Over the past 15 years, this strength–based approach to human development has given rise to a new vision of and approach to research and applications pertinent to adolescent development. Termed the positive youth development (PYD) perspective, this approach counters deficit models of adolescence that, in earlier eras, have been predominant conceptual lenses for research, programs, and policies pertinent to this age period. The historical and theoretical bases and key hypotheses associated with the PYD perspective, and the results of a national, longitudinal study testing the ideas associated with the PYD perspective, the 4-H Study of PYD, will be presented. Implications for research, for practice, and for advocacy in support of promoting positive development among diverse youth will be discussed.
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