Collaborative ACE Book Addresses Ethnicity and Culture in Youth Violence Prevention
Preventing Youth Violence in a Multicultural Society is a new collaboration by several researchers from the CDC’s Academic Centers of Excellence on Youth Violence Prevention (ACEs).This book considers how to approach ethnicity and culture when designing and implementing youth violence prevention programs, and discusses special considerations for different ethnic groups.
Chapters explore how ethnicity and culture can increase or decrease the risk of youth violence depending on factors such as a disadvantaged upbringing, exposure to trauma, and degree of acculturation.
Authors focus on the interaction between environmental conditions and the individual risk factors that foster youth violence. They begin by examining risk factors common to all groups of youth, such as feeling alienated from mainstream culture and searching for self-identity, and then focus on risk, resilience, and distinguishing factors among particular racial and ethnic groups, including Latino, African American, Asian American, Pacific Islander, American Indian, and White youth. The authors suggest interventions tailored to each group, and advise how to incorporate cultural competence into more general youth violence prevention programs.
This book is of interest to mental health care providers, educators, community agencies, juvenile justice and probation departments, schools, foundations, and government funding agencies.
Preventing Youth Violence in a Multicultural Society
Table of Contents
Introduction
Emilie Phillips Smith and Nancy G. Guerra
Section I. Understanding youth violence and prevention in context: The role of ethnicity and culture
- Chapter 1. Ethnicity, violence, and the ecology of development
Nancy G. Guerra and Kirk R. Williams
- Chapter 2. Ethnic identity, social group membership, and youth violence
Sabine E. French, Tia E. Kim, and Olivia Pillado
- Chapter 3. Youth violence, immigration, and acculturation
Ioakim Boutakidis, Nancy Guerra, and Fernando Soriano
Section II. Youth violence and prevention in specific ethnic groups
- Chapter 4. Youth violence prevention among Latino youth
Brenda Mirabal-Colón and Carmen Noemi Velez
- Chapter 5. Youth violence prevention among Asian American and Pacific Islander Youth
Gregory Yee Mark, Linda A. Revilla, Thomas Tsutsumoto, and David May
- Chapter 6. Understanding American Indian youth violence and prevention
Samantha Hurst and Jack Laird
- Chapter 7. Preventing Youth Violence Among African American Youth: The Socio-Cultural Context of Risk and Protective Factors
Emilie Phillips Smith and La Mar Hasbrouck
- Chapter 8. Youth violence prevention among White youth
Robert Nash Parker and Louis Tuthill
Section III. Developing culturally-competent youth violence prevention programs and strategies
- Chapter 9. Culturally-sensitive interventions to prevent youth violence
Joan C. Wright and Marc A. Zimmerman
- Chapter 10. What is cultural competence and how can it be incorporated into preventive interventions?
Cynthia Hudley and April Taylor
- Chapter 11. Preventing youth violence in a multicultural society: Future directions