Adolescent Diversity in Ethnic, Economic, and Cultural Contexts

Informationen zum Autor Parent-Adolescent Relations, Ohio State University. Personality and Social Development, University of Guelph. Prevention, Child and Family Agency of Southeastern Connecticut, New London, CT. Klappentext This book summarizes and integrates theory and research on adolescents from a diversity of ethnic, economic, and geographic contexts. The book aims to present a more balanced picture of these understudied and misunderstood adolescents by focusing on positive, healthy development. Zusammenfassung This book summarizes and integrates theory and research on adolescents from a diversity of ethnic! economic! and geographic contexts. The book aims to present a more balanced picture of these understudied and misunderstood adolescents by focusing on positive! healthy development. Inhaltsverzeichnis Paths to Adulthood - R Montemayor Adolescent Diversity in Contemporary America Competence among Urban Adolescents in Poverty - H Yoshikawa and E Seidman Multiple Forms, Contexts and Developmental Processes Rural Youth - L Crockett, M Shanahan and J Jackson-Newsom Ecological and Life Course Perspectives Growing Up in Appalachia - S Wilson and G Peterson Ecological Influences on Adolescent Development Indian Adolescence - F Beauvais Opportunity and Challenge Healthy Adjustment in Mexican American and Other Hispanic Adolescents - F Castro, G Boyer and H Balcazar Asian American Adolescents - F Leong, R Chato and E Hardin A Research Review to Dispel the Model Minority Myth Ecological Correlates of the Social and Emotional Adjustment of African American Adolescents - R Taylor, L Jacobsen and D Roberts Conceptual and Methodological Issues in Studying Minority Adolescents - M Cunningham and M Beale Spencer The Variety of Adolescent Experiences - R Montemayor

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• Authors: Gerald R. Adams, Thomas P. Gullotta, Raymond Montemayor, Raymond Adams Montemayor, Raymond J. Adams Montemayor
• Assisted by: Gerald R. Adams (Editor), Thomas P. Gullotta (Editor), Raymond Montemayer (Editor), Raymond Montemayor (Editor), Raymond J. Montemayor (Editor)
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.03.2000
• EAN: 9780761921271
• ISBN: 978-0-7619-2127-1
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Advances in Adolescent Develop; Advances in Adolescent Development; Advances in Adolescent Develop; Advances in Adolescent Development
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories