Overview
- Examines implications of ethnic minority status and rural residence for adolescents and families in the United States
- Discusses developmental challenges as well as sources of resilience in rural ethnic communities
- Explores likely mental health consequences for youth coming of age in rural America
- Addresses development and adjustment of ethnic rural youth from particular ethnic groups within family and community contexts
Part of the book series: National Symposium on Family Issues (NSFI, volume 10)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Family Life and Work in Rural Communities
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Economic and Health Challenges Facing Families in the Rural U.S.
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Family Roles, Well-Being, and Development Pathways in Rural Areas
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Back Matter
Keywords
- African American families in rural America
- Child and family well-being in rural United States
- Demographic shifts and rural America
- Early child development and rural America
- Education quality and opportunities and rural America
- Employment, wages and rural communities
- Family processes and functioning in rural United States
- Health challenges and rural Americans
- Latino prosocial development and rural America
- Offshoring, automation, and job loss in rural America
- Opioid crisis and rural communities and families
- Out-migration, aging, and rural America
- Poverty and rural communities
- Rural poverty and U.S. policy
- Rural voters and U.S. political implications
- Service-based economy and rural labor force
- Social safety net programs and rural families
- Socio-economic distress and rural families
- Strengths-based models and rural ethnic minorities
- Welfare and rural America
About this book
This book examines the implications of rural residence for adolescents and families in the United States, addressing both the developmental and mental health difficulties they face. Special attention is given to the unique circumstances of minority families residing in rural areas and how these families navigate challenges as well as their sources of resilience. Chapters describe approaches for enhancing the well-being of rural minority youth and their families. In addition, chapters discuss the challenges of conducting research within rural populations and propose new frameworks for studying these diverse communities. Finally, the volume offers recommendations for reducing the barriers to health and positive development in rural settings.
Featured topics include:
- Changes in work and family structures in the rural United States.
- Rural job loss to offshoring and automation.
- The opioid crisis in the rural United States.
- Prosocial behaviors in rural U.S. Latino/a youth.
- Demographic changes across nonmetropolitan areas.
Rural Families and Communities in the United States is a must-have resource for researchers, professors, clinicians, professionals, and graduate students in developmental psychology, family studies, public health as well as numerous interrelated disciplines, including sociology, demography, social work, prevention science, educational policy, political science, and economics.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Jennifer E. Glick, Ph.D., is Arnold S. and Betty G. Hoffman Professor in Sociology and Director of the Population Research Institute at Penn State.
Susan M. McHale, Ph.D., is Director of the Social Science Research Institute and Distinguished Professor of Human Development and Family Studies and Professor of Demography at Penn State.
Valarie King, Ph.D., is Professor of Sociology, Demography, and Human Development and Family Studies and Associate Head of the Department of Sociology and Criminology at Penn State.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Rural Families and Communities in the United States
Book Subtitle: Facing Challenges and Leveraging Opportunities
Editors: Jennifer E. Glick, Susan M. McHale, Valarie King
Series Title: National Symposium on Family Issues
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37689-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-37688-8Published: 07 March 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-37691-8Published: 07 March 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-37689-5Published: 06 March 2020
Series ISSN: 2192-9157
Series E-ISSN: 2192-9165
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 277
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 70 illustrations in colour
Topics: Developmental Psychology, Family, Public Health