ISBN:
9780761921264
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (305 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Advances in Adolescent Development
Parallel Title:
Print version Adolescent Diversity in Ethnic, Economic, and Cultural Contexts
DDC:
305.235/0973
Keywords:
Adolescence ; United States
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Minority teenagers ; United States
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Teenagers with social disabilities ; United States
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Teenagers ; United States ; Social conditions
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1 - Paths to Adulthood:Adolescent Diversity in Contemporary America; Chapter 2 - Competence among Urban Adolescents in Poverty: Multiple Forms, Contexts, and Developmental Processes; Chapter 3 - Rural Youth: Ecological and Life Course Perspectives; Chapter 4 - Growing Up in Appalachia: Ecological Influences on Adolescent Development; Chapter 5 - Indian Adolescence: Opportunity and Challenge; Chapter 6 - Healthy Adjustment in Mexican American and Other Hispanic Adolescents
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 7 - Asian American Adolescents: A Research Review to Dispel the Model Minority MythChapter 8 - Ecological Correlates of the Social and Emotional Adjustment of African American Adolescents; Chapter 9 - Conceptual and Methodological Issues in Studying Minority Adolescents; Chapter 10 - The Variety of Adolescent Experiences; Name Index; Subject Index; About the Editors; About the Contributors;
Note:
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