Children and youth : interdisciplinary perspectives

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Children and youth : interdisciplinary perspectives

editors, Herbert J. Walberg, Olga Reyes, Roger P. Weissberg

（University of Illinois at Chicago series on children and youth）（Issues in children's and families' lives, v. 7）

Sage Publications, c1997

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While "city life" can be exciting, its problems can be challenging for families and children, particularly when they are members of minority groups. An interdisciplinary team of researchers examines the positive and problematic circumstances that confront children and youth living in cities and identifies the best researched-based solutions for improving or enhancing those circumstances. Divided into three parts--families, schools, and health--this impressive array of scholars explore such topics as: factors that have influenced inner-city life, including migration patterns and middle-class flights from cities and ghettos; the role of coping, resources, and skills in an urban familyAEs successful management of stress; community-university partnerships that offer workable solutions to urban children and their families; the features of homes, schools, and communities that promote academic success and healthy psychological development in adverse circumstances; barriers to urban schoolingusuch as under funding, dangerous environments, and teacher overload--and promising avenues of reform for effective schools; strategies for preventing violence and substance abuse among city youth; the use of cultural competency training for health care providers so as to overcome the geographic, language, and ethnic barriers to the urban poorAEs access to this care; and the development and implementation of the collaborative programs across disciplines to better serve city children and their families. Clearly written so as to be more accessible to researchers, policymakers, and practitioners in the fields of developmental psychology, sociology, family studies, social work, counseling, human services, and nursing this book provides readers with the best interdisciplinary information available today on the problems with growing up in a city and ways to solve them.

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PART ONE: INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW Introduction and Overview - Herbert J Walberg, Olga Reyes and Roger P Weissberg PART TWO: FAMILIES The Role of Universities in Child Development - Sharon Landesman Ramey and Craig T Ramey Youth and Families in the Inner City - Geraldine K Brookins, Anne C Petersen and Lisa M Brooks Influencing Positive Outcomes Families and the Development of Urban Children - Patrick H Tolan and Deborah Gorman-Smith Urban Myth - Sam Redding The Family in Hard Times PART THREE: SCHOOLS Fostering Educational Resilience in Inner-City Schools - Margaret C Wang, Geneva D Haertel and Herbert J Walberg The Problems and Promise of Urban Schools - William Lowe Boyd and Roger C Shouse Normative School Transitions among Urban Adolescents - Edward Seidman and Sabine E French Understanding the School Performance of Urban Blacks - John U Ogbu Some Essential Background Knowledge Extended Day Programs for Urban Children and Youth - Donald R Hellison and Nicholas J Cutforth From Theory to Practice PART FOUR: HEALTH A Public Health Perspective on Urban Adolescents - Kelli A Komro, Frank Bingchang Hu and Brian R Flay Health Perspectives on Urban Children and Youth - Robert L Johnson Families and Health in the Urban Environment - Suzanne Feetham Implications for Programs, Research, and Policy PART FIVE: CONCLUSIONS Afterword - Herbert J Wallberg et al Strengthening the Families, Education, and Health of Urban Children and Youth

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