Preventing youth violence in a multicultural society  
edited by Nancy G. Guerra and Emilie Phillips Smith. 
 - 1st ed. 
 - Washington, DC :  American Psychological Association,  c2006. 
 - xi, 310 p. ;  27 cm. 
<br/><br/> Contributors --  Acknowledgments --  Introduction /  Understanding youth violence and prevention in context : the role of ethnicity and culture --  Ethnicity, youth violence, and the ecology of development /  Ethnic identity, social group membership, and youth violence /  Youth violence, immigration, and acculturation /  Youth violence and prevention in specific ethnic groups --  Youth violence prevention among Latino youth /  Youth violence prevention among Asian American and Pacific islander youth /  Understanding American Indian youth violence and prevention /  Preventing youth violence among African American youth : the socio-cultural context of risk and protective factors /  Youth violence prevention among white youth /  Emilie Phillips Smith  Nancy G. Guerra --  Nancy G. Guerra  Kirk R. Williams --  Sabine E. French,  Tia E. Kim,  Olivia Pillado --  Ioakim Boutakidis,  Nancy Guerra,  Fernando Soriano --  Brenda Mirabal-Colon  Carmen Noemi Velez --  Gregory Yee Mark,  Linda A. Revilla,  Thomas Tsutsumoto,  David Mayeda --  Samantha Hurst  Jack Laird --  Emilie Phillips Smith  La Mar Hasbrouck --  Robert Nash Parker  Louis Tuthill --  and  [pt]. 1.  ch. 1.  and  ch. 2.  and  ch 3.  and  [pt]. 2.  ch. 4.  and  ch. 5.  and  ch. 6.  and  ch. 7.  and  ch. 8.  and  Developing culturally competent youth violence prevention programs and strategies --  Culturally-sensitive interventions to prevent youth violence /  What is cultural competence and how can it be incorporated into preventive interventions? /  Preventing youth violence in a multicultural society : future directions /  Glossary --  Author index --  Subject index --  About the editors.  Joan C. Wright  Marc A. Zimmerman --  Cynthia Hudley  April Taylor --  Nancy G. Guerra  Emilie Phillips Smith --  [pt]. 3.  ch. 9.  and  ch. 10.  and  ch.11.  and 
<br/><br/> 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 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>1591473276 9781591473275 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2005016567 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Youth and violence--Prevention.--United States<br/>Violence--Prevention.--United States<br/>Cultural pluralism--United States.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>303.60835 Pre   9