Overview
- Examines mental health issues and sources of resilience unique to minority youth in rural America
- Explores the role of family and community in the lives of rural ethnic children
- Offers interventions to enhance well-being in rural minority youth and families
- Discusses reducing barriers to healthy development in rural minority youth
- Provides leading-edge mental health interventions for youth in rural minority populations
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Advancing Responsible Adolescent Development (ARAD)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Adolescent development in the rural United States
- African American youth in rural American
- American Indian children and youth in rural American
- Asian American children in the United States
- Child development in rural America
- Culture and mental health in rural areas
- Ethnicity and rural youth in America
- Latino youth and families in rural America
- Low-income rural children and families in the United States
- Native American youth and families in rural settings
- PATHS Program and rural minority youth
- Poverty and ethnicity in rural America
- REAL Program and rural minority youth
- Racial minority group in rural areas
- Risk and resilience in rural ethnic youth
- Rural ethnic minority children and adolescents
- Rural ethnic minority families
- SEALS Program and rural minority youth
- Substance abuse in rural settings
About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Lisa J. Crockett, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She is an expert on adolescent development, risk behavior, parenting and ethnic group differences. Her work on rural youth includes a 10-year longitudinal study extending from early adolescence to early adulthood and a study of the psychological, cultural and contextual factors that contribute to adjustment among Latino/a youth from rural and urban communities. Her research has been funded by NIH and NSF and published in numerous journal articles and books. Her co-edited volumes include Negotiating Adolescence in Times of Social Change, Asian American Parenting and Parent-Adolescent Relationships and Health Disparities in Families and Youth: Research and Applications.
Gustavo Carlo, Ph.D., is the Millsap Professor of Diversity and Multicultural Studies, the Director of the Center for Family Policy and Research and the Co-Director of the Center for Children and Families Across Cultures, at the University of Missouri in Columbia, MO. He is an expert on child and adolescent development, cultural studies, parenting, and personality. His research on prosocial competencies in diverse children and families has been published in well over 100 peer-reviewed articles and he has co-edited several volumes (e.g., Handbook of U.S. Latino Psychology; Health Disparities in Youth and Families: Research and Applications; Moral Development Across the Life Span). NSF and NIH have funded Dr. Carlo’s research. He has also worked on education programs and evaluation focusing on Latino/a children and is currently PI or Co-PI on several programs focusing on early childhood education in low-SES families.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Rural Ethnic Minority Youth and Families in the United States
Book Subtitle: Theory, Research, and Applications
Editors: Lisa J. Crockett, Gustavo Carlo
Series Title: Advancing Responsible Adolescent Development
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20976-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-20975-3Published: 11 November 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-37151-1Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-20976-0Published: 03 November 2015
Series ISSN: 2195-089X
Series E-ISSN: 2195-0903
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 297
Topics: Child and School Psychology, Family, Public Health