DR PETER C SCALES

For more than 45 years, Dr. Peter C. Scales (A.B. (honors) Psychology, and M.S. and Ph.D. in Child & Family Studies from Syracuse University, 1976) has been a developmental psychologist, researcher, author, and speaker, internationally recognized as one of the world's foremost authorities on the positive development of children and youth. With the late Dr. Peter L. Benson, he became the world's leading researcher on the role of Developmental Assets-positive relationships, opportunities, values, attitudes, and skills-in the lives of children and youth. He was a senior leader in producing and disseminating the 40 Developmental Assets Framework, which in large measure because of his research became the most widely-cited approach to positive youth development in the world. He also co-created the institute's more recent Developmental Relationships Framework for understanding and promoting positive, empowering relationships in young people's lives. His special expertise is child and..