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Summary
Summary
While "city life" can be exciting, its problems can be challenging for families and children, particularly when they are members of minority groups. An interdisciplinary team of researchers examines the positive and problematic circumstances that confront children and youth living in cities and identifies the best researched-based solutions for improving or enhancing those circumstances. Divided into three parts--families, schools, and health--this impressive array of scholars explore such topics as: factors that have influenced inner-city life, including migration patterns and middle-class flights from cities and ghettos; the role of coping, resources, and skills in an urban familyÆs successful management of stress; community-university partnerships that offer workable solutions to urban children and their families; the features of homes, schools, and communities that promote academic success and healthy psychological development in adverse circumstances; barriers to urban schoolingùsuch as under funding, dangerous environments, and teacher overload--and promising avenues of reform for effective schools; strategies for preventing violence and substance abuse among city youth; the use of cultural competency training for health care providers so as to overcome the geographic, language, and ethnic barriers to the urban poorÆs access to this care; and the development and implementation of the collaborative programs across disciplines to better serve city children and their families. Clearly written so as to be more accessible to researchers, policymakers, and practitioners in the fields of developmental psychology, sociology, family studies, social work, counseling, human services, and nursing this book provides readers with the best interdisciplinary information available today on the problems with growing up in a city and ways to solve them.
Table of Contents
Part 1 Introduction And Overview |
Introduction and OverviewHerbert J Walberg and Olga Reyes and Roger P Weissberg |
Part 2 Families |
The Role of Universities in Child DevelopmentSharon Landesman Ramey and Craig T Ramey |
Youth and Families in the Inner CityGeraldine K Brookins and Anne C Petersen and Lisa M Brooks |
Influencing Positive Outcomes |
Families and the Development of Urban ChildrenPatrick H Tolan and Deborah Gorman-Smith |
Urban MythSam Redding |
The Family in Hard Times |
Part 3 Schools |
Fostering Educational Resilience in Inner-City SchoolsMargaret C Wang and Geneva D Haertel and Herbert J Walberg |
The Problems and Promise of Urban SchoolsWilliam Lowe Boyd and Roger C Shouse |
Normative School Transitions among Urban AdolescentsEdward Seidman and Sabine E French |
Understanding the School Performance of Urban BlacksJohn U Ogbu |
Some Essential Background Knowledge |
Extended Day Programs for Urban Children and YouthDonald R Hellison and Nicholas J Cutforth |
From Theory to Practice |
Part 4 Health |
A Public Health Perspective on Urban AdolescentsKelli A Komro and Frank Bingchang Hu and Brian R Flay |
Health Perspectives on Urban Children and YouthRobert L Johnson |
Families and Health in the Urban EnvironmentSuzanne Feetham |
Implications for Programs, Research, and Policy |
Part 5 Conclusions |
AfterwordHerbert J Wallberg et al |
Strengthening the Families, Education, and Health of Urban Children and Youth |