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Social Work with Multicultural Youth
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 concep...
Sexual Assault and Abuse
Prevention of a chronic societal problem such as sexual victimization requires looking beyond individuals to the systemic factors that maintain the problem. Sexual Assault and Abuse addresses the need to change social and cultural beliefs and practices that permit the sexual victimization of women and children. Potential rapists and victims are viewed within the context of the social and cultural factors that shape sexual behavior. The book discusses rape prevention approaches ranging from changing individuals and groups to changing the social and cultural factors that permit and promote sexual victimization.Research in the social sciences, in education, and in the media documents the promis...
Emancipation
It's thrilling to exercise your rights for the first time as a teenager. It's the choices we get to make all on our own, and hopefully they're well within the legal limits of what is allowed. This collection of essays examines and debates a teenager's perceived and real rights of emancipation. Issues such as medical care decisions, drinking and smoking, the age of sexual consent and marriage are explored, as well as the reasons why a teenager would want to declare emancipation from their guardians. Foster care situations are also explored.
Working with Pregnant and Parenting Teenage Clients
Each year in the United States, approximately one million adolescents become pregnant. This guide, the seventh in a series of resource guides for human service professionals, features a collection of articles that explores and explains the different facets of teenage pregnancy, while offering strategies for intervention. The volume begins with an analysis of the family's and teenager's concerns during an unmarried pregnancy, followed by an analysis of adolescent development issues and changes that occur during a teenage pregnancy. Next, the guide presents a case management approach to social services delivery, which includes three articles on child abuse and neglect. The familial and cultura...
American Journal of Public Health
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