Book excerpt: "In this report, the Task Force on Resilience and Strength in Black Children and Adolescents encourages a paradigm shift from an emphasis on risk to exploring the complex interactive process of resilience in African-American youth. The task force offers a bold new vision of thriving optimal development in African American youth within the following domains in the contexts of peers, families, schools and communities: identity development, emotional development, social development, cognitive development, physical health and development. The report offers recommendations to the field on how to transform its approach to African American children and youth in the areas of research, practice, education and policy"--APA website, viewed November 5, 2021.