Black Girls and Adolescents (eBook, PDF)

Facing the Challenges
Redaktion: Collins, Catherine Fisher

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This one-of-a kind book challenges the current thinking about black girls to show how America has failed them-and what can be done to make their lives better. African American girls are one of the United States' most endangered populations, yet meaningful explorations of the issues that impact their lives are almost nonexistent. In this riveting book, led by one of the African American community's best-known scholars, experts from across the nation explain the risks, challenges, and influences-both good and bad-faced by black girls and teens. The work shows how our society is failing them, and it outlines what can and should be done to help these young women lead happier, healthier, more successful lives. The book covers a wide range of concerns, including obesity, substance abuse, sex trafficking, gangs, teen pregnancy, and suicide attempts. Stress, low self-esteem, anger, aggression, and violence are explored, as are failures of our education system and of a legal system that tends to victimize young black women. A substantial section on parenting and mentoring discusses ways to counter the negative influences that are a constant for many black girls and adolescents. It is time for American society to recognize and react to the realities these young women face, making this book a must-read for caring parents, teachers, nurses, guidance counselor, doctors, school administrators, and school board members.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. März 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781440830549
• Artikelnr.: 68183897

Autorenporträt

Catherine Fisher Collins, DEd, RN, NP, is associate professor at the State University of New York, Empire State College.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Marian Wright Edelman Preface Acknowledgments PART I: HEALTH 1.
HIV/AIDS in Adolescent Black Girls Yvonne Wesley 2. African American
Adolescent Females: Physical Health and Mental Health Issues Yvette R.
Harris 3. The Challenges Facing Sickle-Cell Disease (SCD) Patients during
the Transitional Period from Adolescence to Adulthood Cassandra E. Dobson
4. The Never-Ending Pelvic Inflammatory Disease among Adolescents Denise
Linton 5. African American Girls and Substance Use Leslie R. Walker and
Caryn R. R. Rodgers 6. Black Girls in Poverty Marianne E. Partee 7.
Prevention of Overweight and Obesity among African American Girls Te Cora
Ballom PART II: PARENTING 8. Me, Myself, and I: Biracial Challenges to
Mental Health Mary Harley Gresham 9. Avoiding Teenage Pregnancy: Too Young
to Parent Kellie Bryant 10. Obesity in Black Girls: The Curse of a Poverty
Diet and Fast Foods Portia Johnson and Yvonne Wesley 11. Growth Development
and Anticipatory Guidance for African American Girls Funmi Aiyegbo-Ohadike
12. African American Girls' Spirituality and Resilience Hope E. Ferguson
PART III: EDUCATION 13. "Oral Sex Is Not Sex" Jamesetta A. Newland 14.
Barriers to Mental Health Services and African American Girls Ursuline R.
Bankhead 15. Black Adolescent Girls in Foster Care Betty Boyle-Duke 16.
Education vs. Schooling: Black Adolescent Females Fight for an Education in
the 21st Century Gloria A. Gibson 17. Suicidality among Gifted African
American Females Attending Elite Schools: Impact of Diminished Community
Support Aquilla Frederick 18. Sex Trafficking and Black Girls: Breaking the
Code of Silence in Schools and in Our Community Virginia A. Batchelor and
Illana R. Lane 19. Critical Conversations Using Poetry to Empower
Adolescent Girls of African Descent to Effectively Address Their Sexual
Health and Well-Being Lindamichelle Baron 20. Finding Nem[a]: Modeling and
Mentoring for Adolescent African American Females' Development of
Self-Identity Sheila Marie Aird 21. The Mis-Education of Black Girls:
Learning in a White System Jessica J. Jones PART IV: CRIMINAL JUSTICE 22.
Violated and Victimized: The Juvenile Justice System and Black Girls
Tomasina L. Cook 23. The Big Picture: Black Girls, Adolescents, and Crime
Today Byron Miller 24. Pathways to Delinquency and Imprisonment Catherine
Fisher Collins 25. Raising the Age of Criminal Responsibility in New York:
A Judge's Observation Juanita Bing Newton 26. Aggression and Violence in
Teen Girls Chiquita D. Howard-Bostic 27. African American Adolescent
Females in the Criminal and Juvenile Justice Systems E. Jeannette Ogden
About the Editor and Contributors Index