Curtis Branch (ed.)

Adolescent Gangs

Old Issues, New Approaches
Herausgeber: Branch, Curtis

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Offers a collection of chapters dealing with how to deal with gangs effectively. The book operates from the basic belief that gang members are people, who participate in abnormal behaviour, in search of a place in their community.

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Published in 1998, Adolescent Gangs is a valuable contribution to the field of Counseling and School Therapy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 154mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 349g
• ISBN-13: 9780876309247
• ISBN-10: 0876309244
• Artikelnr.: 22529086

Autorenporträt

Curtis W. Branch

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Basic Definitions and Concepts. Part I. Community Based
Interventions. Welcoming Home Boyz: Building Communities through Cultural
Capital. Adolescent Gangs: Old Issues, New Approaches - Practitioner's
Perspective. Hope: Sustaining a Vision of the Future. Part II. Specialized
Agency-based Interventions. Probation Interventions with Gang-Affiliated
Youth and Their Families. Youth Violence and Post Traumatic Stress
Disorder: How can the teacher assess it, and what are the implications for
the classroom. Energizing and Organizing the Community. Understanding
Family-Agency Dynamics. Part III. Mental Health Interventions.
Culture-focused Group Therapy-Identity Issues in Gang-Involved Youth. Youth
Gangs-Cognitive-Behavioral Interventions in Schools, and System Change.
Pathologizing Normality or Normalizing Pathology? Summary and Conclusions.