The Context of Youth Violence: Resilience, Risk, and Protection

The Context of Youth Violence: Resilience, Risk, and Protection
ISBN-10
0313000506
ISBN-13
9780313000508
Category
Family & Relationships
Pages
219
Language
English
Published
2000-11-30
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Authors
Mark W. Fraser, Jack Richman

Description

Leading scholars summarize the current research on risk, protection, and resilience in the context of youth violence and its implications for practice with children and families. It describes an emerging framework for understanding social and health problems and for developing more effective programs for interventions. This book describes resilient children by examining risk factors for violence and explores the factors that lead some children to resist or adapt to risk. The concept of resilience has been applied to family, school, neighborhood, and organizational contexts. Educational, family, and community resilience are used as the framework to describe social systems that possess risk factors. By understanding why some systems with risk factors are adaptable, information for assessment can be applied to service plans, that will be more effective in treating children at risk of antisocial, aggressive behavior.

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