Social Work with Multicultural Youth

ISBN-13: 9780789021892 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 290 str.

Diane De Anda

Opis

Presents accurate conceptual frameworks for understanding the experiences of ethnic youth to help you create culturally relevant interventions to promote their well-being.

Spis treści

• Preface
• A Profile of Adolescent Health: The Role of Race, Ethnicity and Gender
• Latina Students: Translating Cultural Wealth into Social Capital to Improve Academic Success
• From Problems to Personal Resilience: Challenges and Opportunities in Practice with African American Youth
• Hispanic and African American Youth: Life After Foster Care Emancipation
• Parent Involvement as Parental Monitoring of Student Motivation and Parent Expectations Predicting Later Achievement Among African American and European American Middle School Age Children
• Adolescent Violence: With Whom They Fight and Where
• Perception of Substance Use Problems in Asian American Communities by Chinese, Indian, and Vietnamese American Youth
• Ties That Protect: An Ecological Perspective on Latino/a Urban Pre-Adolescent Drug Use
• Reproductive Attitudes and Behavior Among Latina Adolescents
• The GIG: An Innovative Intervention to Prevent Adolescent Pregnancy and Sexually Transmitted Infection in a Latino Community
• Index
• Reference Notes Included

O autorze

Diane Deanda