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Drug Use and Ethnicity in Early Adolescence
Vega, William A.; Gil, Andres G.
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Description for Drug Use and Ethnicity in Early Adolescence
Paperback. Series: Longitudinal Research in the Social and Behavioral Sciences: An Interdisciplinary Series. Num Pages: 234 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 397.
This book presents new and important information about adolescent drug use. The book is intended for human service professionals, teachers, researchers, and students interested in the issue of early adolescent drug use and its causes and pervasiveness in a multiethnic population. Today, the field of adolescent drug use research relies on integrative models that permit competing explanations of drug use. This approach promotes flexibility in testing hypotheses pertinent to adol- cents of very different social and cultural backgrounds or personal characteristics. Longitudinal studies, including the one presented in these pages, have identified many risk and protective factors or processes that ... Read more
This book presents new and important information about adolescent drug use. The book is intended for human service professionals, teachers, researchers, and students interested in the issue of early adolescent drug use and its causes and pervasiveness in a multiethnic population. Today, the field of adolescent drug use research relies on integrative models that permit competing explanations of drug use. This approach promotes flexibility in testing hypotheses pertinent to adol- cents of very different social and cultural backgrounds or personal characteristics. Longitudinal studies, including the one presented in these pages, have identified many risk and protective factors or processes that ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
234
Condition
New
Series
Longitudinal Research in the Social and Behavioral Sciences: An Interdisciplinary Series
Number of Pages
234
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9781475785852
SKU
V9781475785852
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Ref
99-15
Reviews for Drug Use and Ethnicity in Early Adolescence
"The authors...make significant contributions to understanding the complexity of teenage drug use, especially in recognizing the weakness of theories of deviance and pathology...The book includes an excellent and comprehensive bibliography." Choice, October 1998