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Youth and Young Adult Ministry

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Youth Development

This guide is for providing helpful resources on topics relating to youth ministry.

Related Research Guides

Positive Youth Development

Comprehensive Community Initiatives for Positive Youth Development by Jonathan F. Zaff (Editor); Elizabeth Pufall Jones (Editor); Alice E. Donlan (Editor); Sara Anderson (Editor)
Call Number: Available online
Building Healthy Communities for Positive Youth Development by Michael J. Nakkula; Karen C. Foster; Marc Mannes; Shenita Bolstrom
Call Number: Available online
Positive youth development by United States. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
Call Number: Available online
Publication Date: 2014

Youth.gov
The Interagency Working Group on Youth Programs (IWGY) of dozens of U.S. federal agencies provides a resource website for helping advance positive youth development.

Global Youth Development

The Palgrave Handbook of Childhood Studies by Jens Qvortrup; William A. Corsaro; Michael-Sebastian Honig
Call Number: Available Online
Childhood and Adolescence by Uwe P. Gielen (Editor); Jaipaul L. Roopnarine (Editor)
Call Number: O'Neill Library Stacks BF721 .W67 2016
Adolescent Psychology Around the World by Jeffrey Jensen Arnett (Editor)
Call Number: O'Neill Library Stacks HQ796 .A3344 2012

Constructive Development

Authoring Your Life by Marcia B. Baxter Magolda; Sharon Daloz Parks (Foreword by); Matthew Henry Hall (Illustrator)
Call Number: TML Stacks BF710 .B396 2009
In Over Our Heads by Robert Kegan
Call Number: TML Stacks BF311 .K37 1994
Big Questions, Worthy Dreams by Sharon Daloz Parks
Call Number: Available online

Youth Development in Specific Context

Africa

Africa's Future, Africa's Challenge by Marito Garcia (Editor); Alan Pence (Editor); Judith L. Evans (Editor); World Bank Center Staff
Call Number: Available Online

Latin America

Child and Adolescent Development in Latin America by Ann Wiley; David D. Preiss (Editor)
Call Number: Available Online

U.S.

Thriving and Spirituality among Youth by Richard M. Lerner (Editor); Erin Phelps (Editor); Amy Eva Alberts Warren (Editor)
Call Number: Theology and Ministry Library (TML) Stacks BL625.47 .T47 2012

Asia

Teen Life in Asia by Judith J. Slater
Call Number: Social Work Library Stacks HQ799.A75 T44 2004
Youth and Globalization in Central Asia by Stefan B. Kirmse
Call Number: O'Neill Library Stacks HQ799.A75 K57 2013

Last Updated: Sep 20, 2024 1:10 PM
Subjects: Theology
Tags: ministry, theology

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