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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465134303321

Autore

Stevens Joyce West <1936->

Titolo

Smart and sassy [[electronic resource] ] : the strengths of inner city Black girls / / Joyce West Stevens

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 2002

ISBN

1-280-76057-5

9786610760572

0-19-802839-3

0-19-512165-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Disciplina

305.235

Soggetti

African American teenage girls - Attitudes

African American teenage girls - Psychology

African American teenage girls - Social conditions

Adolescence - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-204) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Prologue: A Book about the Strengths of Inner-City Black Girls; PART 1 THEORY OVERVIEW; 1 Risk and Resiliency in Social Contexts; 2 Adolescent Developmental Theories; 3 Person-Process-Context: An Ecological Transactional Model; PART 2 DEVELOPMENTAL DOMAINS; 4 Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Role Commitment; 5 Care Protective Sensibility and Role Model Formulation; 6 Decision Making, Dating, and Mate Selection Expectations; 7 Opportunity Mobility and Adulthood Preparation; PART 3 CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS

8 A Social Work Practice Model: Core Principles of InterventionEpilogue; Glossary; A; C; D; I; K; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

Empirically based, the daily experiences of adolescent black females is explicated within an explanatory model of social context and developmental theory. The author argues that adolescence must be seen from strength and health perspectives.