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Latinas Attemping Suicide: When Cultures, Families, and Daughters Collide
Zayas
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Description for Latinas Attemping Suicide: When Cultures, Families, and Daughters Collide
Paperback. This book presents the anatomy of experiences before, during, and after suicide attempts and suggests new ways of understanding them. More importantly, it offers researchers and clinicians a model for understanding and working with young Latinas and their families in a compassionate, culturally sensitive manner. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: JFSL4; JKSN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 166 x 12. Weight in Grams: 352.
Since 1991, surveys conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have shown that Latina teenagers attempt suicide at a far higher rate than other American youth in the same age group; one in seven Latinas attempt suicide while one in ten black and white girls do. While these numbers came as a shock to the general public, many urban clinicians have long suspected this disparity without having the data to confirm the problem or draw attention to it. Here, in a compelling account of a troubling trend that draws on interviews conducted both with girls who attempted suicide ... Read more
Since 1991, surveys conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have shown that Latina teenagers attempt suicide at a far higher rate than other American youth in the same age group; one in seven Latinas attempt suicide while one in ten black and white girls do. While these numbers came as a shock to the general public, many urban clinicians have long suspected this disparity without having the data to confirm the problem or draw attention to it. Here, in a compelling account of a troubling trend that draws on interviews conducted both with girls who attempted suicide ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780199977901
SKU
V9780199977901
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Ref
99-11
About Zayas
Luis H. Zayas, PhD, is Dean and Centennial Professor for Leadership at the School of Social Work, University of Texas at Austin.
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