Rural Ethnic Minority Youth and Families in the United States

2015-11-03 Psychology

Author : Lisa J. Crockett
Release : 2015-11-03
Genre : Psychology
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Download or read book Rural Ethnic Minority Youth and Families in the United States written by Lisa J. Crockett. This book was released on 2015-11-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the risk and protective factors of rural life and minority status for youth and their families. It provides innovative perspectives on well-documented developmental challenges (e.g., poverty and lack of resources) as well as insights into the benefits of familial and cultural strengths. Coverage includes recent theories in child development, empirical studies of rural minority populations, and leading-edge interventions for urgent issues. The volume presents a spectrum of opportunities for understanding and providing services for youth in the United States through the lens of a diverse collection of ethnic minority experiences in rural settings. Topics featured in this volume include: Theoretical models focused on the intersection of ethnicity and rural settings. Family processes, child care, and early schooling in rural minority families. Promising strategies for conducting research with rural minority families. Strengths-based educational interventions in rural settings. Promoting supportive contexts for minority youth in low-resource rural communities. Rural Ethnic Minority Youth and Families in the United States is a valuable resource for researchers and professors, clinicians and related professionals and graduate students across such disciplines as clinical child, school and developmental psychology, family studies, social work and public health.

Standing Out and Fitting in

2021 Children of minorities

Author : Laura M. Gumbiner
Release : 2021
Genre : Children of minorities
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Download or read book Standing Out and Fitting in written by Laura M. Gumbiner. This book was released on 2021. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 3,000,000 racial and ethnic minority children (hereafter called minority youth) live in rural areas of the United States. Rural minority youth encounter life circumstances that make them unique from non-minority rural youth and other minority children, including limited geographic and socioeconomic resources coupled with struggles related to enculturation, prejudice, and discrimination. As this is an at-risk population in the United States, rural minority youth, particularly adolescents, remain an under researched group in both the psychological and educational literature. With 10 rural minority adolescents as participants, this qualitative research explored the unique context, common stressors, and supporting strengths that influence rural minority adolescents' sense of belonging at school as school belonging is positively correlated with numerous psychological and academic outcomes. Rather than assuming rural minority adolescents experience school belonging in the same way as other high school students, it is important to understand the unique experiences and contextual forces that influence their sense of belonging there. Using hermeneutic phenomenology, which provides a means of interpreting participants' experiences, nine themes placed into five categorical factors emerged as impacting adolescents' sense of belonging at school, giving rich understanding to their experience of belonging at school. This study informs the bio-psycho-social-ecological model of school belonging (Allen & Kern, 2017) and uses theory of social stratification (Parsons, 1940) to recognize the intertwining levels of influence interacting with rural minority adolescents' perceptions of their experience of belonging at school. Through interviews, documentation, and hermeneutic phenomenological analysis, this work gives voice to an often ignored population with paramount implications for researchers and educators. As the field of school psychology emphasizes individual strengths and social justice, we have to place importance on serving members of historically marginalized populations, which can first begin by hearing what they have to say.

Social and Emotional Adjustment and Family Relations in Ethnic Minority Families

2013-11-26 Education

Author : Ronald D. Taylor
Release : 2013-11-26
Genre : Education
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Download or read book Social and Emotional Adjustment and Family Relations in Ethnic Minority Families written by Ronald D. Taylor. This book was released on 2013-11-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays addresses issues related to the intersection of family relationships and several contexts for the social and emotional development of ethnic minority adolescents. The papers are organized in sections under subtitles which reflect three contextual frames through which these issues may be examined. The first section focuses on the relationship between economic factors and resources on the one hand and family relations as environments for development on the other. The next part focuses on family and peer networks and relations as contexts for the emotional and social development of adolescents. The last section takes neighborhood and school as contexts for and determinants of social and emotional adjustment in adolescence. Like much of the extant work and current thought concerning development in ethnic minority children and adolescents, the authors have highlighted the more stressful and negative aspects of these several contexts. There are a few explicit and several implicit references made to supportive and more positive contexts and manifestations of relationships which frame the developmental experiences of ethnic minority adolescents. These serve as a reminder that many ethnic minority adolescents do overcome the odds against success and grow into healthy and wholesome adults. However, in large measure, this book is a contribution to our understanding of the problematic circumstances under which a significant segment of the population exists, reminding us that life for ethnic minority adolescents is difficult. The fact that some of these young people manage to overcome the negative and stressful aspects of their experiences and defy the implicit prediction of failure to thrive is truly remarkable.

Handbook on Positive Development of Minority Children and Youth

2017-02-07 Psychology

Author : Natasha J. Cabrera
Release : 2017-02-07
Genre : Psychology
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Download or read book Handbook on Positive Development of Minority Children and Youth written by Natasha J. Cabrera. This book was released on 2017-02-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook presents current research on children and youth in ethnic minority families. It reflects the development currently taking place in the field of social sciences research to highlight the positive adaptation of minority children and youth. It offers a succinct synthesis of where the field is and where it needs to go. It brings together an international group of leading researchers, and, in view of globalization and increased migration and immigration, it addresses what aspects of children and youth growing in ethnic minority families are universal across contexts and what aspects are more context-specific. The Handbook examines the individual, family, peers, and neighborhood/policy factors that protect children and promote positive adaptation. It examines the factors that support children’s social integration, psychosocial adaptation, and external functioning. Finally, it looks at the mechanisms that explain why social adaptation occurs.

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