Preventing youth violence in a multicultural society
By: edited by Nancy G. Guerra and Emilie Phillips Smith.
Contributors: Guerra, Nancy.; Smith, Emilie Phillips.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: American Psychological Association
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
Subjects: Youth and violence -- United States -- Prevention; Violence -- United States -- Prevention; Pluralism (Social sciences) -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Emilie Phillips Smith and Nancy G. Guerra; title: Section I: Understanding youth violence and prevention in context : the role of ethnicity and culture; title: Ethnicity, violence, and the ecology of development / Nancy G. Guerra and Kirk R. Williams; title: Ethnic identity, social group membership, and youth violence / Sabine E. French, Tia E. Kim, and Olivia Pillado; title: Section II: Youth violence, immigration, and acculturation / Ioakim Boutakidis, Nancy Guerra, and Fernando Soriano; title: Youth violence and prevention in specific ethnic groups; title: Youth violence prevention among Latino youth / Brenda Mirabal-Colón and Carmen Noemi Velez; title: Youth violence prevention among Asian American and Pacific islander youth / Gregory Yee Mark, Linda A. Revilla, Thomas Tsutsumoto, and David May; title: Understanding American Indian youth violence and prevention / Samantha Hurst and Jack Laird; title: Preventing youth violence among African American youth : the socio-cultural context of risk and protective factors / Emilie Phillips Smith and La Mar Hasbrouck; title: Youth violence prevention among white youth / Robert Nash Parker and Louis Tuthill; title: Section III: Developing culturally-competent youth violence prevention; title: Programs and strategies; title: culturally-sensitive interventions to prevent youth violence / Joan C. Wright and Marc A. Zimmerman; title: What is cultural competence and how can it be incorporated into preventive interventions? / Cynthia Hudley and April Taylor; title: Preventing youth violence in a multicultural society : future directions.