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Adolescents in Public Housing: Addressing Psychological and Behavioral Health
Von E. Nebbitt
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Description for Adolescents in Public Housing: Addressing Psychological and Behavioral Health
Hardback. Num Pages: 256 pages, 3 figures. BIC Classification: JFSP2; JKSN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 160 x 23. Weight in Grams: 484.
Adolescents in Public Housing incorporates data from multiple public-housing sites in large U.S. cities to shine much-needed light on African American youth living in non-HOPE VI public-housing neighborhoods. With findings grounded in research, the book gives practitioners and policy makers a solid grasp of the attitudes toward deviance, alcohol and drug abuse, and depressive symptoms characterizing these communities, and links them explicitly to gaps in policy and practice. A long-overdue study of a system affecting not just a minority of children but the American public at large, Adolescents in Public Housing initiates new, productive paths for research on this vulnerable ... Read more
Adolescents in Public Housing incorporates data from multiple public-housing sites in large U.S. cities to shine much-needed light on African American youth living in non-HOPE VI public-housing neighborhoods. With findings grounded in research, the book gives practitioners and policy makers a solid grasp of the attitudes toward deviance, alcohol and drug abuse, and depressive symptoms characterizing these communities, and links them explicitly to gaps in policy and practice. A long-overdue study of a system affecting not just a minority of children but the American public at large, Adolescents in Public Housing initiates new, productive paths for research on this vulnerable ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231148580
SKU
V9780231148580
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About Von E. Nebbitt
Von E. Nebbitt is an associate professor at the Jane Addams College of Social Work at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His research focuses on mental health symptoms and health-risk behavior among African American adolescents living in urban public-housing developments. Dr. Nebbitt's work also assesses the protective effects of self-efficacy, parental monitoring, and social cohesion, which promote resilient functioning ... Read more
Reviews for Adolescents in Public Housing: Addressing Psychological and Behavioral Health
Adolescents in Public Housing is an important contribution to our understanding of neighborhood effects and, more specifically, the contextual issues for a large number of African American youth living in public housing. This is an important area of study for a vulnerable population of young people and families.
Elizabeth Anthony, associate professor, School of Social Work, Arizona State University ... Read more
Elizabeth Anthony, associate professor, School of Social Work, Arizona State University ... Read more