“In her second edition of Nurturing Future Generations, Rosemary A. Thompson brings together two of the most important and exciting bodies of developmental-clinical research: studies of resilience and studies validating intervention programs and practices to promote youth well-being. By adopting a systems approach, she helps to link our descriptive understanding of the broad phenomena of resilience with the scientific study of how schools, communities, and service agencies can most effectively intervene to alter the developmental assets and processes that promote resilience in youth. This book is an excellent and comprehensive resource for educators, service providers, researchers, and students interested in enhancing positive youth development and well-being.” - J. Douglas Coatsworth, Department of Human Development and Family Studies, The Pennsylvania State University

"What Thompson has accomplished is to delineate in statistical and descriptive charts the range of risk problems and their severity and extent.  She has also provided explicit details of treatment plans to prevent risk factors.  The level of detail the author provides is impressive.  The treatment plans provided are varied and tailored to each specific risk or stressor.  A variety of treatment models are provided for some of the risk factors. For a community activist, this book will prove a boon.  It is loaded with statistical specifics about the incidence of risk factors, such as gangs, teen pregnancy, bullying in schools, teen suicide attempts, school underachievement and school drop out, and child self-mutilation.  This volume provides an extensive summary table of programs that the author labels 'exemplary,' 'effective,' or 'promising' in each domain of remediation, mentoring, family therapy, truancy prevention, and so forth.  This book will be useful as a resource for a community agency whose personnel are dedicated to finding funding resources and allocations to address the risks specifically addressed in the book." - Alice Sterling Honig in PsycCRITIQUES, Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, Volume 52, Issue 33

The book addresses emerging research on resiliency and includes increased coverage of best practices for use with troubled youth. A new chapter on LGBT youth issues has been added, and the existing chapters have been substantially revised and updated. The author has reorganized sections within each chapter, adding to the readability and flow of the book, making it more useful as both a professional reference and supplemental text.

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