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About this episode

YALSA President's Program 2010.Dr. Peter Benson, President and CEO of Minneapolis-based Search Institute [www.search-institute.org], is a leading authority on positive human development; many of you are likely familiar with the 40 Developmental Assets® which are grounded in extensive research at the Search Institute. For this panel, Dr. Benson will share an overview of the latest Search Institute research on “thriving,” a new way to define and understand the dynamics of healthy adolescent development. This inspirational description of the thriving research includes a challenge to librarians to take risks, and help young people take risks, to discover one of the 15 thriving indicators in adolescence: Spark identification and motivation.

• Release Date

  Jun 19, 2010

• Runtime

  14:26