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Area of Science:

  • Environmental Psychology
  • Youth Development Studies
  • Ecology

Background:

  • Nature serves as a crucial developmental environment throughout life.
  • The youth development sector can leverage nature's affordances for optimal youth potential.
  • Youth programs are vital for fostering nature connection and promoting prosocial outcomes.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To highlight evidence-based principles and practices for nature-based positive youth development programs.
  • To emphasize key elements contributing to impactful programs.
  • To discuss applications across diverse youth settings and future research directions.

Main Methods:

  • Framing the study within Hamilton's tripartite model of positive youth development.
  • Reviewing and synthesizing evidence-based principles and practices.
  • Analyzing the role of specific program components.

Main Results:

  • Impactful nature-based positive youth development programs emphasize social interaction, direct experience, graduated nature access, escape, and novelty.
  • Outdoor leadership is a key component in facilitating positive youth outcomes.
  • These principles are applicable in both formal and informal educational settings.

Conclusions:

  • Nature-based programs offer significant potential for positive youth development.
  • Strengthening the theoretical basis of nature-youth developmental relationships is essential.
  • Further research should explore bidirectional developmental relations and practices across settings.