Social Work with Multicultural Youth

Diane Deanda

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN: 9780789021892
• eBook ISBN: 9781136415197
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Health Care Delivery

Explore the cultural, familial, and community resilience and protective factors that are available to different youth populations in the U.S.!

The face of American youth is changing. In 2000, ethnic minority youth constituted one third of the adolescent population; by mid-century, the combined ethnic minority youth population will exceed the white adolescent population. This vital book illustrates the diversity within the adolescent population, examines the factors that serve as barriers and as facilitators to development, and identifies strengths and protective factors contributing to resilience as well as needs and risk factors. Social Work with Multicultural Youth presents accurate conceptual frameworks for understanding the experiences of ethnic youth to help you create culturally relevant interventions to promote their well-being.

Here is a sample of what you'll find in this important and informative book:

• a comprehensive epidemiological profile of adolescent populationswith current data on issues that contribute to adolescents' health and well-being
• cultural strengths models and resilience models that meet the developmental needs of Latino and African-American youth
• an overview of the academic disparities between Latina adolescents and their cohorts in other ethnic groups
• an important chapter that employs conflict theory to place the disadvantaged status and position of African-American youth in its proper context
• specific recommendations for modifying the process of preparing Latino and African-American youth in foster care for emancipation
• information on factors that differentially impact academic achievement between African-American youth and their European-American cohorts
• real-world data about the who and where of adolescent fightingidentified by race/ethnicity, gender, and age
• new information about substance use in Asian/Pacific Islander populations in America, with important implications for substance abuse interventions
• resilience and protective factors that emerge from a qualitative study of seventh grade Latina adolescents
• a look at the differences in sexual behavior and attitudes between Latina adolescents born in the United States and those born outside the U.S.
• an evaluation of a unique, five-hour intensive intervention aimed at changing the knowledge and attitudes of Latino youth in regard to pregnancy and STDs

Index

AA (Alcoholics Anonymous), 176-177, 182

Academic success-related issues

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and, 44

cultural wealth, 45-47

introduction to, 45

social capital and, 45-46

social vs. economic disadvantages and, 46-47

translation of, 47

educational achievement, 41-45, 59-60

family and institutional factors of, 41-43

poverty-related factors of, 43-45

educational levels, 89-92

foster care emancipation and, 89-92

future perspectives of, 47-49

historical profiles of, 34-37

data source limitations of, 34-35

educational trends, 37-41

socio-demographic profiles, 35-37

introduction to, xiii-xviii, 33-34

among Latina youth, 33-53

National Alliance for Hispanic Health and, 36-37, 48

NCLR (National Council of La Raza) and, 36-48

personal resilience, 59-60. See also Personal resilience

reference and research literature about, 50-53

student motivation and parental involvement, 109-131. See also Student motivation and parental involvement

White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans, 37, 40, 47-48

Acculturation, impact of, 224-229, 242-243

Achievement, educational, 41-45, 59-60, 120-125

family and institutional factors of, 41-43

poverty-related factors of, 43-45

Adaptation and change, positive, 72-73

Add Health (National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent Health), 5-6, 133-155

Adolescent Family Life Act (1981), 255

Adulthood transitions, 81-84

African American youth foster care emancipation of, 79-107. See also Foster care emancipation-related issues

personal resilience of, 55-77. See also Personal resilience

student motivation and parental involvement of, 109-131. See also Student motivation and parental involvement

After-school contexts, 209-214

AIDS infections. See HIV/AIDS infections

Alcohol use, 23, 176-182. See also Substance use-related issues

Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), 176-177, 182

Asian American Recovery Services, 155

Asian American youth

health-related issues of, 159-189

substance use among, 159-189. See also Substance use-related issues

Assessment of Substance Dependence Treatment Needs, 168-169

Attachment, 203

Attitudes

about religious beliefs, 229, 237, 244

about reproductive behaviors, 221-249. See also Reproductive attitudes and behaviors

towards self, 243-244

about substance use, 181-183

Becerra, R. M., 79-107

Behaviors

multiple, 259

reproductive, 221-249. See also Reproductive attitudes and behaviors

risk taking, 4-6, 258

sexual, 257-259

Best practice models, 260-261

Black youth. See African American youth

Brindis, C.,...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Halftitle
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface
• A Profile of Adolescent Health: The Role of Race, Ethnicity and Gender
• Latina Students: Translating Cultural Wealth into Social Capital to Improve Academic Success
• From Problems to Personal Resilience: Challenges and Opportunities in Practice with African American Youth
• Hispanic and African American Youth: Life After Foster Care Emancipation
• Parent Involvement as Parental Monitoring of Student Motivation and Parent Expectations Predicting Later Achievement Among African American and European American Middle School Age Students
• Adolescent Violence: With Whom They Fight and Where
• Perception of Substance Use Problems in Asian American Communities by Chinese, Indian, and Vietnamese American Youth
• Ties That Protect: An Ecological Perspective on Latino/a Urban Pre-Adolescent Drug Use
• Reproductive Attitudes and Behavior Among Latina Adolescents
• The GIG: An Innovative Intervention to Prevent Adolescent Pregnancy and Sexually Transmitted Infection in a Latino Community
• Index