Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue: A Book about the Strengths of Inner-City Black Girls -- PART 1 THEORY OVERVIEW -- 1 Risk and Resiliency in Social Contexts -- 2 Adolescent Developmental Theories -- 3 Person-Process-Context: An Ecological Transactional Model -- PART 2 DEVELOPMENTAL DOMAINS -- 4 Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Role Commitment -- 5 Care Protective Sensibility and Role Model Formulation -- 6 Decision Making, Dating, and Mate Selection Expectations -- 7 Opportunity Mobility and Adulthood Preparation -- PART 3 CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS -- 8 A Social Work Practice Model: Core Principles of Intervention -- Epilogue -- Glossary -- References -- Index
Summary
Empirically based, the daily experiences of adolescent black females is explicated within an explanatory model of social context and developmental theory. The author argues that adolescence must be seen from strength and health perspectives
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-204) and index
