%0 PDF %T Evidence-based practices in community collaborative work: Implications of Relational Developmental Systems Concepts. %A Prescott, Jennifer. %8 2017-04-20 %R http://localhost/files/nz806b49z %X Abstract: A youth system is a concept useful for discussing the alignment of contextual assets and individual strengths and needs. Such systems are adaptive when they support the positive, healthy development of both the person and the context. Comprehensive community initiatives (CCIs) have demonstrated efficacy at moving youth systems toward being more adaptively supportive by, at least in part, involving collaborations using evidence-based programs (EBPs). An integral part of the evidence base is examining how the collaboration itself is functioning. However, to date, most measures of collaboration functioning that have been validated are intended for use in a single collaborative approach, and those designed for use across different types of collaborative approaches have rarely been validated. In this dissertation, I examined measures of collaboration functioning - structure and process - to see if they performed similarly across two collaborative approaches. I found that items pertaining to collaborative structure loaded onto three factors in almost identical ways across collaborative approaches. The items in these three factors also behaved similarly across collaborative approaches. However, the items pertaining to collaborative process did not perform similarly across collaborative approaches. Future research should develop process items that maintain similar factor structure and behave similarly across collaborative approaches.; Thesis (Ph.D.)--Tufts University, 2015.; Submitted to the Dept. of Child Development.; Advisor: Richard Lerner.; Committee: Jonathan Zaff, Sara Johnson, and Aaron Metzger.; Keyword: Developmental psychology. %[ 2022-10-11 %~ Tufts Digital Library %W Institution