Youth And Adversity

Author : Michael Tlanusta Garrett
Publisher : Nova Science Pub Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781631175046
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Youth and Adversity written by Michael Tlanusta Garrett and published by Nova Science Pub Incorporated. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers the most current research and reviews, innovative programs and approaches, developments and directions, and future outlooks and trends from an international perspective by experts in the field on a variety of current topics related to youth facing adversity with implications for creating and maintaining child and adolescent resilience in a constantly changing world. In these chapters are themes and information that embody the stories of the lives of youth today. Topics include the following: parenting, coping, and motivation of Australian at-risk adolescents; religious rejection and resilience among Christian sexual minority youth; the influences from parents, police, and social work on at-risk youth in Hong Kong; resilience among Native American youth; the experience of Australian children who have been diagnosed and treated for pediatric hematology; the effect in adulthood with Serbian youth who grew up in political and economic turmoil; approaches for overcoming adversity among Arab American youth; EcoWellness as a way to connect with at-risk youth using nature as a basis for overcoming adversity; adolescents and gaming; poly-victimization and resilience among Spanish youth; a Liberation psychology approach to working with borderland Mexican children impacted by violence on the U.S.-Mexico border; substance use and resilience among adolescents; use of the Home Interaction Programme for Parents and Youngsters (HIPPY) as way for enhancing parenting practices to mitigate socioeconomic disadvantages faced by at-risk youth in New Zealand; use of rite of passage programs, specifically, the Louis Armstrong Manhood Development Program (LAMDP), as a way to address the overrepresentation of African American boys in special education; psychosocial factors involved in adolescent self-injury; and nurturing hope and resilience among at-risk middle school youth using a group rap therapy program called Wrapped in Resilience. All chapters provide a better understanding of various areas in which youth face adversity, and offer implications for ways of helping youth develop resilience and positive coping skills. Building upon the knowledge, awareness, and skills that are explored in this text, helping professionals, researchers, and educators who work with youth begin to better understand and more effectively intervene with the lived experience of youth who face adversity in many different forms today, and who survive these experiences in a way that makes them stronger and more resilient

Author : Danielle Corriveau
Publisher : Corvo Comm
ISBN 13 : 9780970236609
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trail Mix written by Danielle Corriveau and published by Corvo Comm. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of personal stories told by young adults who as they faced difficult obstacles-- death of parent, life-threatening illness, sexual abuse, gang life, learning disability, and more-- found renewed hope through experiences grounded in nature.

Author : Deuchar, Ross
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1529210569
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gangs, Drugs and Youth Adversity written by Deuchar, Ross and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2021-12-02 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revisiting the young men interviewed in Deuchar's original fieldwork over a decade later, this book ascertains how early exposure to gang culture and weapon carrying acts as a path to wider types of offending. Through empirical insights and policy analysis, it considers the evolving nature of gangs, knife crime and street violence in Glasgow.

Author : Nadine Burke Harris
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0544828704
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Deepest Well written by Nadine Burke Harris and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2018 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pioneering physician reveals how childhood stress leads to lifelong health problems, and what we can do to break the cycle.

Author : Sara Langeworthy
Publisher : Redleaf Press
ISBN 13 : 1605543888
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bridging the Relationship Gap written by Sara Langeworthy and published by Redleaf Press. This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A resource for working with children growing up without caring adults at home.

Author : Emanuel Grimes
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Black Youth Manual written by Emanuel Grimes and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-05-22 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many young black men are born into poverty which breeds conditions where they can be exposed to crime, violence, and have limited potential for growth. If they don't have a positive role model or aren't shown a more constructive path they tend to fall victim to negative influences. The Black Youth Manual gives you a firsthand look at issues faced by young men, how to address them, to make sure their situation does not end up defining them The Black Youth Manual -Black boys guide to triumphing through adversity is a must-have book for black men, and also for mothers, partners, and educators who strive to understand the psyche of these promising young men. This book gives valuable advice on how to survive in today's social and political climate.

Author : Linda C. Theron
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9401794154
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Youth Resilience and Culture written by Linda C. Theron and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-11-21 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until researchers and theorists account for the complex relationship between resilience and culture, explanations of why some individuals prevail in the face of adversity will remain incomplete. This edited volume addresses this crucial issue by bringing together emerging discussions of the ways in which culture shapes resilience, the theory that informs these various studies, and important considerations for researchers as they continue to investigate resilience. Using research from majority and minority world contexts, ‘Youth Resilience and Culture: Commonalities and Complexities’ highlights that non-stereotypical, critical appreciation of the cultural systems in which youth are embedded, and/or affiliate with, is pivotal to understanding why particular resilience processes matter for particular youth in a particular life-world at a particular point in time. In doing so, this book sensitizes readers to the importance of accounting for the influence of cultural contexts on resilience processes, and to the danger of conceptualising and/or operationalising resilience, culture, and their interplay, simplistically or idealistically. In short, the progressive contents of ‘Youth Resilience and Culture: Commonalities and Complexities’ make it an essential read for resilience-focused scholars, students, academics, and researchers, as well as policy makers, practitioners, and humanitarian workers engaged with high-risk populations.

Author : Sue-Ann MacDonald
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1552669335
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Staying Alive While Living the Life written by Sue-Ann MacDonald and published by Fernwood Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-01T00:00:00Z with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Staying Alive While Living the Life, Sue-Ann MacDonald and Benjamin Roebuck unpack the realities of living on the streets from the perspective of homeless youth. While much is written about at-risk youth, most literature on youth homelessness reduces their lives to flattened images with little room for the diverse, complex and individual nature of their experiences. Challenging the dominant youth-at-risk conversation by putting forward a framework of survival and resilience, MacDonald and Roebuck illustrate the ways that young people who experience homelessness demonstrate tremendous resilience when facing adversity, social exclusion and various forms of oppression. Drawing on conversations with homeless youth, this book focuses both on the external constraints imposed on their lives as well as the ways young people understand their circumstances and their approaches to problem solving. The result is a nuanced analysis that puts human agency at its centre, allowing readers to explore the challenges young people face and the internal and external resources they draw upon when making decisions about their lives.

Author : Kathleen Nader
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429851502
Total Pages : 833 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Trauma, Traumatic Loss, and Adversity in Children written by Kathleen Nader and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-16 with total page 833 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook of Trauma, Traumatic Loss, and Adversity in Children is a developmentally oriented book rich with findings related to child development, the impact of trauma on development and functioning, and interventions directed at treating reactions to trauma. Aspects of attachment and parenting and the use of interrelationships toward therapeutic ends are included in each age-related section of the book, ranging from 0 to 18+. Consolidating research from a range of disciplines including neurobiology, psychopathology, and trauma studies, chapters offer guidance on the potentially cascading effects of trauma, and outline strategies for assisting parents and teachers as well as children. Readers will also find appendices with further resources for download on the book’s website. Grounded in interdisciplinary research, the Handbook of Trauma, Traumatic Loss, and Adversity in Children is an important resource for mental health researchers and professionals working with children, adolescents, and families during the ongoing process of healing from traumatic exposure.

Author : Meg Jay
Publisher : Twelve
ISBN 13 : 1455559148
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Supernormal written by Meg Jay and published by Twelve. This book was released on 2017-11-14 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clinical psychologist and author of The Defining Decade, Meg Jay takes us into the world of the supernormal: those who soar to unexpected heights after childhood adversity. Whether it is the loss of a parent to death or divorce; bullying; alcoholism or drug abuse in the home; mental illness in a parent or a sibling; neglect; emotional, physical or sexual abuse; having a parent in jail; or growing up alongside domestic violence, nearly 75% of us experience adversity by the age of 20. But these experiences are often kept secret, as are our courageous battles to overcome them. Drawing on nearly two decades of work with clients and students, Jay tells the tale of ordinary people made extraordinary by these all-too-common experiences, everyday superheroes who have made a life out of dodging bullets and leaping over obstacles, even as they hide in plain sight as doctors, artists, entrepreneurs, lawyers, parents, activists, teachers, students and readers. She gives a voice to the supernormals among us as they reveal not only "How do they do it?" but also "How does it feel?" These powerful stories, and those of public figures from Andre Agassi to Jay Z, will show supernormals they are not alone but are, in fact, in good company. Marvelously researched and compassionately written, this exceptional book narrates the continuing saga that is resilience as it challenges us to consider whether -- and how -- the good wins out in the end.