Dr. Peter Benson - SPARKS!

Dr. Peter Benson - SPARKS!

Uploaded on TEDxTC Apr 22, 2011 - Peter L. Benson, president and CEO of Minneapolis-based Search Institute, is one of the world's leading authorities on positive human development. Dr. Benson is the author or editor of more than a dozen books on child and adolescent development and social change, including, most recently, Sparks: How Parents (volunteers, school staff, ...) Can Help Ignite the Hidden Strengths of Teenagers. Dr. Benson's international reputation in human development emerged in the 1990s through his innovative, research-based framework of Developmental Assets, the most widely recognized approach to positive youth development in the United States and, increasingly, around the world. Before joining the Search Institute in 1978, Dr. Benson was chair of the psychology department and chair of the program in human development and social relations at Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana.