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Public Policy and Youth Development  

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  • Developmental Orientations to Youth Public Policy National youth policy has primarily been driven by concern over adolescent problems and has steadfastly held to a developmental deficit orientation. Policy-makers have perennially been obsessed with escalating rates of developmental threats and health-compromising behavior among adolescents and consumed by expressions of youth psychopathology. [Source: Encyclopedia of Applied Developmental Science; Public Policy and Youth Development]

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