Full Description
This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of youth development, including theories and applications across different countries, namely India, the UK, and Australia. It presents the status of youth and their role in society, their education, and their career perspectives. The focus is on developing youth's internal abilities by providing a creative and supportive environment through appropriate mentorship and encouragement. It discusses a wide range of contemporary and relevant issues relating to holistic career growth of youth, whereby youth work is recognized as a profession. Academicians from various disciplinary backgrounds offer conceptual and methodological perspectives. Chapters into five themes focus on a balance between developing stable, protective factors for mental health, and positive youth development to ensure appropriate cognitive, social, emotional, and behavioral skills needed to thrive in an evolving world. It discusses the status of the youth in terms of digital competency, engagement of youth in sports, teaching, political process, and community development activities in the present and rapidly altering world scenario. The book also discusses the role of institution-based family counseling for healthy youth development. Given its comprehensive coverage, the handbook is an essential resource for a broad audience of youth researchers, practitioners and policymakers of population sciences, childhood and youth studies, development studies, and psychology.
Contents
Part I: Positive Youth Development.- Chapter 1. Positive Youth Development Through Holistic Approach.- Chapter 2. The Promotion of Youth Development in Higher Education Through School-Based Family Counseling.- Chapter 3. Literature as a Moral Tool for Youth: A Select Study of Canonical Texts.- Chapter 4. Developing Bhutan: Nurturing Youth.- Chapter 5. Youth Development: International Perspectives.- Chapter 6. Sport in Physical Education for Bullying, Harassment and Violence Prevention.- Chapter 7. Involvement in Sports: Developing a New Culture for Youth.- Chapter 8. Wrestling out Youth Development through Indigenous Sports and Games: An Account of Naga Style Wrestling.- Chapter 9. India's Demographic Dividend and Policy Implications.- Chapter 10. Positive People & Confident Competitors: Resilient Youth Development Through Sport and Physical Activity.- Part II: Youth, Education and Career.- Chapter 11. A Review on the Impacts of AI on Youth.- Chapter 12. Understanding Youth Participation in Education: Youth as Teaching Professionals.- Chapter 13. Current Trends In Career Decision-Making In Youth: Opportunities and Challenges.- Chapter 14. Efficacy of Online Training on Internet of Things (IoT) and Automation through Industry and Institute Partnership during COVID-19 Lockdown.-Chapter 15. Youth and Information Literacy: A Global Perspective. etc.
