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This book outlines the development, implementation and evaluation of a project entitled "P.A.T.H.S. to Adulthood: A Jockey Club Youth Enhancement Scheme," with P.A.T.H.S. denoting Positive Adolescent Training through Holistic Social programmes. This pioneer project was conducted in Hong Kong between 2005 and 2012 with more than 210,000 participants. Its goal was to help students meet various challenges in their path to adulthood, with a focus on their psychosocial competencies, developmental assets and the promotion of healthy peer relationships. The project was initiated by The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust in collaboration with the Government’s Social Welfare Department, Education Bureau and five universities in Hong Kong. Edited by the researchers of the project, Development and Evaluation of Positive Adolescent Training through Holistic Social Programs explores the nature of positive youth development (PYD), the application of PYD constructs to youth programs and implementation issues. Using multiple strategies, the book evaluates the overall effectiveness of the P.A.T.H.S. school-based program and reveals that stakeholders had positive perceptions of the project, its implementers and benefits. Students in the program showed better positive development and displayed lower levels of substance abuse and delinquent behavior than students in the control schools. The book also details lessons learned, emergent issues, future directions as well as insights into the development of positive youth development programs particularly in Chinese communities. Development and Evaluation of Positive Adolescent Training through Holistic Social Programs will appeal to all educators, administrators, psychologists, social workers and allied profeesionals looking to promote whole-person development in their students, especially those with in interest in education in China.

Youth development --- School improvement programs --- Evaluation research (Social action programs) --- Evaluation of social action programs --- Evaluative research (Social action programs) --- Improvement programs, School --- Instructional improvement programs --- Programs, School improvement --- School self-improvement programs --- Development, Youth --- Youth --- Development --- Psychology. --- Child psychology. --- School psychology. --- Psychology --- Psychological measurement. --- Personality. --- Social psychology. --- Cognitive psychology. --- Positive psychology. --- Positive Psychology. --- Child and School Psychology. --- Personality and Social Psychology. --- Cognitive Psychology. --- Psychological Methods/Evaluation. --- Methodology. --- Psychology, Cognitive --- Cognitive science --- Mass psychology --- Psychology, Social --- Human ecology --- Social groups --- Sociology --- Personal identity --- Personality psychology --- Personality theory --- Personality traits --- Personology --- Traits, Personality --- Individuality --- Persons --- Self --- Temperament --- Measurement, Mental --- Measurement, Psychological --- Psychological measurement --- Psychological scaling --- Psychological statistics --- Psychometry (Psychophysics) --- Scaling, Psychological --- Psychological tests --- Scaling (Social sciences) --- Psychology, School --- Psychology, Applied --- Behavior, Child --- Child behavior --- Child study --- Children --- Pediatric psychology --- Psychology, Child --- Child development --- Developmental psychology --- Child psychiatry --- Child rearing --- Educational psychology --- Behavioral sciences --- Mental philosophy --- Mind --- Science, Mental --- Human biology --- Philosophy --- Soul --- Mental health --- Measurement --- Scaling --- Methodology --- Evaluation --- Social action --- Social sciences --- Social service --- School management and organization --- Developmental psychobiology --- Research --- Developmental psychology. --- Consciousness. --- Psychological tests and testing. --- Apperception --- Mind and body --- Perception --- Spirit --- Development (Psychology) --- Life cycle, Human --- Psychology—Methodology. --- School Psychology. --- Difference (Psychology). --- Personality and Differential Psychology. --- Psychological Methods. --- Differential psychology --- Psychology, Differential --- Differentiation (Developmental psychology)

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This book is based upon a special issue published in the International Journal on Disability and Human Development and permission has been obtained from the publisher De Gruyter in Berlin to publish this modified version of the papers in this book. There are several areas of research that should be conducted with reference to Chinese adolescents experiencing economic disadvantage. First, there is a need to understand how factors in different ecological systems influence the psychological well-being of poor adolescents. Second, as family social capital is an important resource within families e

Teenagers --- Adolescence --- Youth development --- Adolescent psychology --- Psychology --- Development, Youth --- Youth --- Developmental psychobiology --- Teen-age --- Puberty --- Adolescents --- Teen-agers --- Teens --- Young adults (Teenagers) --- Social conditions. --- Development

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Psychotropic drugs --- Drug abuse --- Youth --- Drug use --- Substance abuse --- Psychiatric drugs --- Psychoactive drugs --- Psychopharmaceuticals --- Drugs --- Drugs of abuse --- Psychopharmacology --- Psychotropic plants --- Young people --- Young persons --- Youngsters --- Youths --- Age groups --- Life cycle, Human --- Prevention.

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Youth development --- Adolescent psychology --- Adolescence --- Teenagers --- Psychology --- Development, Youth --- Youth --- Developmental psychobiology --- Development

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This book documents the findings of a 3-year longitudinal study on the quality of family life, personal well-being and risk behavior in Chinese adolescents in Hong Kong. It presents the profiles of quality of family life (family functioning, parental behavioral control, parental psychological control, and parent-child relational qualities); personal well-being (positive youth development and life satisfaction measures); and adolescent risk behavior (substance abuse, delinquency, self-harm and suicidal behavior, and behavioral intentions to engage in risk behavior) in different adolescent populations across time. It also examines theoretical issues concerning the interrelationships between family quality of life, psychological well-being and risk behavior in adolescents. Practically speaking, the findings can help youth workers appreciate the importance of family quality of life and positive youth development in shaping the personal well-being and risk behavior in Chinese adolescents in Hong Kong.

Quality of life --- Life, Quality of --- Economic history --- Human ecology --- Life --- Social history --- Basic needs --- Human comfort --- Social accounting --- Work-life balance --- Quality of Life --- Quality of Life Research. --- Family. --- Research. --- Quality of life. --- Families. --- Families—Social aspects. --- Family --- Families --- Family life --- Family relationships --- Family structure --- Relationships, Family --- Structure, Family --- Social institutions --- Birth order --- Domestic relations --- Home --- Households --- Kinship --- Marriage --- Matriarchy --- Parenthood --- Patriarchy --- Social aspects --- Social conditions