title: Shortridge academy: positive youth development in action within a therapeutic community.
abstract: This chapter presents a case example of the implementation of Positive Youth Development (PYD) at a therapeutic boarding school including the theoretical, conceptual, and empirical information about PYD, adolescent brain development, authoritative communities, and youth-adult partnerships that guided this work. Specific examples demonstrate how key concepts and underlying principles of PYD were put into practice. The chapter provides information about parents' perceptions of the school's effectiveness and explains a theory of change approach used to develop the program evaluation. The chapter concludes with a discussion of challenges and opportunities experienced in the development and implementation of the program.
authors.affiliation: University of New Hampshire, Emeritus, New Hampshire, USA.
authors.forename: Kristine M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Baber
authors.forename: Adam
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rainer
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001290:Attitude; D001318:Authoritarianism; D002648:Child; D002668:Child Rearing; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D009513:New Hampshire; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D010290:Parents / Q000193:education / Q000523:psychology; D010553:Personality Development; D000297:Psychology, Adolescent; D012574:Schools; D020377:Self Efficacy; D012931:Social Environment; D012944:Social Support; D012951:Socialization; D013192:Staff Development; D013808:Therapeutic Community