ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book represents the most comprehensive collection of research and scholarship in the area of Positive Youth Development (PYD) through sport ever compiled. Several contributors to the book highlights theoretical issues that require further attention in the study of PYD through sport. Several authors highlight the need to generate better understandings of the processes through which PYD outcomes may be acquired via participation in sport. Moving forward, PYD through sport researchers need to do a better job of designing and conducting more rigorous intervention and evaluation research, which may ultimately contribute to narrowing the gap between research and practice. Youth sport is just one aspect of a complex system that is interconnected or fused with other aspects of the system. In other words, youth sport is a microsystem and part of other, more distal, ecological systems.
