Preventing youth violence in a multicultural society
Edition statement:1st ed. Published by : American Psychological Association, (Washington, DC :) Physical details: xi, 310 p. ; 27 cm. ISBN:1591473276; 9781591473275.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Emilie Phillips Smith and Nancy G. Guerra -- [pt]. 1. Understanding youth violence and prevention in context : the role of ethnicity and culture -- ch. 1. Ethnicity, youth violence, and the ecology of development / Nancy G. Guerra and Kirk R. Williams -- ch. 2. Ethnic identity, social group membership, and youth violence / Sabine E. French, Tia E. Kim, and Olivia Pillado -- ch 3. Youth violence, immigration, and acculturation / Ioakim Boutakidis, Nancy Guerra, and Fernando Soriano -- [pt]. 2. Youth violence and prevention in specific ethnic groups -- ch. 4. Youth violence prevention among Latino youth / Brenda Mirabal-Colon and Carmen Noemi Velez -- ch. 5. Youth violence prevention among Asian American and Pacific islander youth / Gregory Yee Mark, Linda A. Revilla, Thomas Tsutsumoto, and David Mayeda -- ch. 6. Understanding American Indian youth violence and prevention / Samantha Hurst and Jack Laird -- ch. 7. Preventing youth violence among African American youth : the socio-cultural context of risk and protective factors / Emilie Phillips Smith and La Mar Hasbrouck -- ch. 8. Youth violence prevention among white youth / Robert Nash Parker and Louis Tuthill --
[pt]. 3. Developing culturally competent youth violence prevention programs and strategies -- ch. 9. Culturally-sensitive interventions to prevent youth violence / Joan C. Wright and Marc A. Zimmerman -- ch. 10. What is cultural competence and how can it be incorporated into preventive interventions? / Cynthia Hudley and April Taylor -- ch.11. Preventing youth violence in a multicultural society : future directions / Nancy G. Guerra and Emilie Phillips Smith -- Glossary -- Author index -- Subject index -- About the editors.
This text highlights the importance of creating compatible interventions to stop violence among the youngest members of diverse populations. Aimed at mental health practitioners, it focuses on the interaction between environmental conditions and the individual risk factors that foster youth violence
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