Adolescent Diversity in Ethnic, Economic, and Cultural Contexts / Edition 1

by Raymond J. Montemayor, Gerald R. Adams, Thomas P. Gullotta

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761921264
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	01/24/2000
Series:	Advances in Adolescent Development , #10
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Parent-Adolescent Relations, Ohio State University.

Personality and Social Development, University of Guelph.

Prevention, Child and Family Agency of Southeastern Connecticut, New London, CT.

Table of Contents

Paths to Adulthood - R Montemayor
Adolescent Diversity in Contemporary America
Competence among Urban Adolescents in Poverty - H Yoshikawa and E Seidman
Multiple Forms, Contexts and Developmental Processes
Rural Youth - L Crockett, M Shanahan and J Jackson-Newsom
Ecological and Life Course Perspectives
Growing Up in Appalachia - S Wilson and G Peterson
Ecological Influences on Adolescent Development
Indian Adolescence - F Beauvais
Opportunity and Challenge
Healthy Adjustment in Mexican American and Other Hispanic Adolescents - F Castro, G Boyer and H Balcazar
Asian American Adolescents - F Leong, R Chato and E Hardin
A Research Review to Dispel the Model Minority Myth
Ecological Correlates of the Social and Emotional Adjustment of African American Adolescents - R Taylor, L Jacobsen and D Roberts
Conceptual and Methodological Issues in Studying Minority Adolescents - M Cunningham and M Beale Spencer
The Variety of Adolescent Experiences - R Montemayor

Editorial Reviews

Psychology practitioners and scholars, as well as sociologists, present ten contributions offering recent theory and research examining the diversity of adolescent experiences in the US. Chapters address Native American, Mexican American, Asian American, African American, urban poor, rural, and Appalachian adolescents from a variety of perspectives. Contributions focus on "normal," not problem behavior, particularly using an adaptation model in which adolescent behavior is seen as a response to social and economic contexts. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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