ISBN:
1555424163
Language:
English
Pages:
XVI, 262 S.
Series Statement:
A joint publication of the Jossey-Bass social and behavioral science series and the Jossey-Bass education series
DDC:
305.23
Keywords:
Crimes violents - États-Unis - Aspect psychologique
;
Enfants et violence - États-Unis
;
Enfants issus des minorités - États-Unis - Psychologie
;
Enfants, Crimes contre les - États-Unis
;
Geweld
;
Ghettos - États-Unis - Aspect psychologique
;
Kinderen
;
Gewalt
;
Kind
;
Psychologie
;
Child Psychology
;
Child
;
Children and violence
;
Children of minorities Psychology
;
Children Crimes against
;
Crime
;
Inner cities Psychological aspects
;
Minority Groups
;
Poverty
;
Violence
;
Violent crimes Psychological aspects
;
Gewaltkriminalität
;
Kind
;
Kindesmisshandlung
;
USA
;
USA
;
USA
;
Kindesmisshandlung
;
USA
;
Gewaltkriminalität
;
Kind
Abstract:
"Childhood is ideally a time of safety, marked by freedom from the economic, sexual, and political demands that later become part of adult life. For many children, however, particularly those who live in our inner cities, childhood is increasingly a time of danger. The urban war zones of Los Angeles, Chicago, and Washington. D.C., are not unlike the war zones of Beirut, Belfast, and Mozambique. In both worlds, children grow up with firsthand knowledge of terror and violence. This book examines the threat to childhood development posed by living amid chronic community violence. It shows caregiving adults such as teachers, psychologists, social workers, and counselors how they can work together to help children while they are still children--before they become angry, aggressive adults." "Drawing on their extensive fieldwork in war zones around the world, the authors explore the link between a child's response to growing up in an atmosphere of violence and danger, and the social context established for that child by community and caregivers. They reveal the need for establishing predictable, structured, safe environments for children and they show how school-based programs, by providing children with the continuity and regularity that is otherwise lacking in their lives, can enhance children's natural resilience and help ameliorate some of the long-term developmental consequences of living in danger. In addition to providing firsthand accounts of how children growing up in an atmosphere of violence address their situations, the authors also examine the special concerns that relate to the training and support of teachers who deal not only with the violence in the lives of the children they teach, but also with their own personal safety and emotional response to their students' traumas."--BOOK JACKET.
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