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The Impact Of Family Ethnicity And Acculturation On Substance Use Among Mexican American Adolescent Females
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Book Synopsis The Impact of Family, Ethnicity and Acculturation on Substance Use Among Mexican-American Adolescent Females by : Jolyn C.G. Mikow
Download or read book The Impact of Family, Ethnicity and Acculturation on Substance Use Among Mexican-American Adolescent Females written by Jolyn C.G. Mikow and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Role of Socialization, Gender, and Ethnicity in Substance Abuse Among Anglo and Mexican-American Adolescents by : Robert James
Download or read book The Role of Socialization, Gender, and Ethnicity in Substance Abuse Among Anglo and Mexican-American Adolescents written by Robert James and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Ethnic Identity and Acculturation by : Sanji Marissa Coutts
Download or read book Ethnic Identity and Acculturation written by Sanji Marissa Coutts and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Effects of Acculturation, Family and Peer Relationships on the Self-esteem of Mexican-American Adolescent Females by : Lupita Montoya Tannatt
Download or read book The Effects of Acculturation, Family and Peer Relationships on the Self-esteem of Mexican-American Adolescent Females written by Lupita Montoya Tannatt and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Drug Use Trajectories Among Minority Youth by : Yonette F. Thomas
Download or read book Drug Use Trajectories Among Minority Youth written by Yonette F. Thomas and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines trajectories of drug use among ethnic minority youth in the United States with a focus on African Americans and Hispanics. It also highlights what research designs have been employed to address these differences as well as suggests strategies for moving this discourse forward by identifying potential targets for prevention and intervention with minority youth. This book features essays by leading experts in the field who have grappled with this issue for decades. Inside, readers will find an insightful dialogue that addresses such questions as: Why are African American and Hispanic youth more likely than their White peers to abstain from drug use during adolescence but are more likely to become problem users later in life? What impact does the stress caused by discrimination have on potential drug use? To what extent does religiosity protect minority youth from drug use as past research suggests that it protects White youth? What is the influence of neighborhood context on exposure to and use of substances among urban African American children? Taken together, the essays in this book identify underexplored risk and protective factors and gaps in the current state of knowledge that can be used to develop effective, culturally specific drug abuse prevention strategies. This book is for anyone with an interest in the initiation and escalation of drug use among African Americans and Hispanics/Latinos and factors that influence these patterns over the life course. It will also be an ideal resource for those interested in better understanding the mechanisms by which risk and protective factors are related to the development of drug use and addiction, particularly the ways in which such factors contribute to health differences and have disproportionately more negative consequences for ethnic minorities.
Book Synopsis The Impact of Family Support System and Strength of Religious Affiliation on Levels of Alienation and Acculturation Among Mexican-American Adolescents by : Rocio Revuelta Gonzalez
Download or read book The Impact of Family Support System and Strength of Religious Affiliation on Levels of Alienation and Acculturation Among Mexican-American Adolescents written by Rocio Revuelta Gonzalez and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Acculturation, Family Context, and Mexican Origin Youth Substance Use Risk Across Time by : Rick A. Cruz
Download or read book Acculturation, Family Context, and Mexican Origin Youth Substance Use Risk Across Time written by Rick A. Cruz and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Latino youth, and Mexican-origin youth in particular risk, may be at higher risk for early substance use initiation. Given that early initiation is related to greater likelihood of later substance use problems, understanding risk and protective pathways for this early use is of great importance. Acculturation (i.e., American cultural identity) has been identified as a cultural risk factor for adolescent substance use for Mexican-origin youth. On the other hand, increased orientation to heritage Mexican culture appears to play a protective role in the development of substance use. Theory has suggested that acculturation and enculturation are processes that dynamically change over time, yet there is a dearth of longitudinal research on cultural orientation development. Moreover, there is limited research examining whether youth substance use changes as a function of changes in cultural orientation. One mechanism that appears to partially explain the link between youth cultural orientation and substance use is disrupted family dynamics (e.g., Samaniego & Gonzales, 1999; Szapocznik & Kurtines, 1993). However, there is a dearth of longitudinal studies examining the pathway that links cultural change with youth substance use via family dysfunction. The specific aims of this dissertation were to examine and characterize longitudinal changes in cultural orientation over time, examine links between cultural orientation level and change with substance use outcomes and to test whether family processes may mediate the links between cultural orientation change and negative outcomes. The study used data from 674 Mexican-origin youth and their parents across five (approximately) yearly observations between ages 10 - 15. This study used measures of youth report of cultural orientation, substance use, and family dynamics up to age 15. I used latent growth modeling (LGM) in a Structural Equation Modeling framework, applied categorical and count data modeling to appropriately specify substance use outcomes, and examined mediation in a (LGM) context. Results suggested that cultural orientation change is a dynamic process that varies across individuals, and patterns of change depend on the particular cultural domain being examined. Although the results suggested that there were some links between level and change in cultural orientation with substance use outcomes, these findings were less robust in the current study potentially due to missing data characteristics. Still, results demonstrated that family relationship characteristics represent a robust mechanism that indirectly link initial levels and change in cultural orientation with substance use outcomes. I interpret my findings within a cultural risk and resilience framework, and integrate with prior research to inform the acculturation literature.
Book Synopsis Substance Abusing Latinos by : Shulamith L A Straussner
Download or read book Substance Abusing Latinos written by Shulamith L A Straussner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the role culture, family, and environment have in the prevention of Latino substance abuse Information about the substance abuse behaviors among Latino populations has been limited. Substance Abusing Latinos: Current Research on Epidemiology, Prevention, and Treatment fills this void by presenting the latest research on the epidemic of substance abuse now afflicting the Latino community. Ethnic differences are reviewed, including specific studies covering gang members, low-income urban women, risky behaviors, and language preference indicators of acculturation. This book does more than simply present the research—it discusses effective treatment strategies to help practitioners provide quality, culturally competent care to lacking Latino populations. Latinos, the largest minority in the United States, have an increasing alcohol and illicit drug use problem. Culture, acculturation, and language hold powerful sway in the research of Latino/a substance abuse. Substance Abusing Latinos: Current Research on Epidemiology, Prevention, and Treatment delves deeply into troubling issues such as gang membership, sexual abuse, the lack of healthy family role models, the effects of different levels of acculturation, the lack of health insurance, and rampant involvement with the criminal system. The research is used as a foundation to focus on the latest advances of substance abuse prevention and culturally competent intervention programs. Each chapter is extensively referenced to reinforce research. Substance Abusing Latinos: Current Research on Epidemiology, Prevention, and Treatment explores: substance abuse among gang members in a small city childhood sexual abuse and drug use among low-income Puerto Rican women a comparison of risky behaviors of African-American and Cuban-American adolescent juvenile offenders acculturation status and substance use prevention with Mexican and Mexican-American youth culturally competent intervention with families of Latino youth at risk for drug abuse psychiatric, family, and ethnicity-related factors that can impact treatment among Hispanic substance abusing adolescents HIV/AIDS prevention practice with substance abusers Substance Abusing Latinos: Current Research on Epidemiology, Prevention, and Treatment is essential reading for educators, students, practitioners working with Latino/a populations, and substance abuse researchers.
Book Synopsis Differences in Substance Abuse Treatment Outcome in Hispanic and Non-Hispanic Caucasian Adolescents by : David Gage Stewart
Download or read book Differences in Substance Abuse Treatment Outcome in Hispanic and Non-Hispanic Caucasian Adolescents written by David Gage Stewart and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethnicity is an important factor in understanding the heterogeneity of addictive behaviors. Hispanic adolescents in substance abuse treatment programs have been found to differ from non-Hispanic Caucasian adolescents in the relationship of their delinquent behavior to psychoactive substance involvement. This study examined differences in posttreatment substance use and delinquent behaviors in Mexican American and non-Hispanic Caucasian adolescents during the initial six months following treatment for substance abuse. In addition, the impact of acculturation and cultural specific stress on the outcomes of Mexican American substance abusing adolescents was explored. The study included 40 Mexican American and 230 non-Hispanic Caucasian teens entering inpatient adolescent alcohol and drug treatment programs. Participants were interviewed during the treatment program and at six months following discharge. A resource person was interviewed as a corroborative informant. The Customary Drinking and Drug Use Record (CDDR), the Relapse Review and the Conduct Disorder Questionnaire (CDQ) were administered to assess psychoactive substance involvement, aftercare meeting attendance and delinquent behavior over the six month period of the study. Mexican American subjects also completed the Acculturation Rating Scale for Mexican Americans (ARSMA-II) and a subscale of the Hispanic Stress Inventory (HSI) measuring cultural and family conflict. Hierarchical multiple regression was used to test the interaction between ethnicity and delinquency in predicting posttreatment substance use. The relationship between acculturation and cultural stress on posttreatment outcome was also explored using regression and correlation. While Mexican American and Caucasian adolescents demonstrated similar rates of relapse and abstinence during the six months following substance abuse treatment, Mexican American adolescents had more intense substance use patterns and more negative consequences for alcohol and drug relapse. Additionally, compared to Caucasian youth, Mexican American adolescents displayed a stronger relationship between delinquent behavior and substance use intensity during the six months after treatment. Acculturation had an influence on outcomes for Mexican American adolescents, with Anglo orientation negatively correlated with posttreatment substance use, and overall acculturation related to likelihood to attend AA/NA meetings.
Book Synopsis The Effect of Acculturation Upon the Sexual Behavior of Mexican-American Adolescent Females by : Eve Picardy Fielder
Download or read book The Effect of Acculturation Upon the Sexual Behavior of Mexican-American Adolescent Females written by Eve Picardy Fielder and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Social Work with Multicultural Youth by : Diane Deanda
Download or read book Social Work with Multicultural Youth written by Diane Deanda and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the cultural, familial, and community resilience and protective factors that are available to different youth populations in the U.S.! The face of American youth is changing. In 2000, ethnic minority youth constituted one third of the adolescent population; by mid-century, the combined ethnic minority youth population will exceed the white adolescent population. This vital book illustrates the diversity within the adolescent population, examines the factors that serve as barriers and as facilitators to development, and identifies strengths and protective factors contributing to resilience as well as needs and risk factors. Social Work with Multicultural Youth presents accurate conceptual frameworks for understanding the experiences of ethnic youth to help you create culturally relevant interventions to promote their well-being. Here is a sample of what you'll find in this important and informative book: a comprehensive epidemiological profile of adolescent populationswith current data on issues that contribute to adolescents' health and well-being cultural strengths models and resilience models that meet the developmental needs of Latino and African-American youth an overview of the academic disparities between Latina adolescents and their cohorts in other ethnic groups an important chapter that employs conflict theory to place the disadvantaged status and position of African-American youth in its proper context specific recommendations for modifying the process of preparing Latino and African-American youth in foster care for emancipation information on factors that differentially impact academic achievement between African-American youth and their European-American cohorts real-world data about the who and where of adolescent fightingidentified by race/ethnicity, gender, and age new information about substance use in Asian/Pacific Islander populations in America, with important implications for substance abuse interventions resilience and protective factors that emerge from a qualitative study of seventh grade Latina adolescents a look at the differences in sexual behavior and attitudes between Latina adolescents born in the United States and those born outside the U.S. an evaluation of a unique, five-hour intensive intervention aimed at changing the knowledge and attitudes of Latino youth in regard to pregnancy and STDs
Book Synopsis Latino Children and Families in the United States by : Josefina M. Contreras
Download or read book Latino Children and Families in the United States written by Josefina M. Contreras and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2002-09-30 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Latino population in the United States continues to grow and now represents 12% of the population. Yet, remarkably little attention has been paid to understanding parenting and child development processes among Latino families. Although research on Latino parenting is beginning to emerge, the field is in need of further structure and direction. This volume addresses this need and advances the field both by presenting state-of-the-art research on Latino parenting and also by proposing conceptual and methodological frameworks that can provide the field with further integration and direction. In addition to presenting innovative research examining parental beliefs and practices of Latino families from different socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds, authors provide frameworks for identifying the origins of these beliefs and practices, and provide a rich picture of both the values that can be considered Latino and the social and demographic normative and at-risk Latino samples. Finally, methodological and conceptual recommendations for future research on each cited area, as well as the field, are presented.
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Book Synopsis Acculturation and Parent-child Relationships by : Marc H. Bornstein
Download or read book Acculturation and Parent-child Relationships written by Marc H. Bornstein and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although many researchers agree on a general definition of acculturation, the conceptualization and measurement of acculturation remain controversial. To address the issues, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) sponsored a conference that brought together scholars who work to define and develop assessments of acculturation, and who study the impact of acculturation on families. The goals of the conference were to evaluate both the status of acculturation as a scientific construct and the roles of acculturation in parenting and human development. The goal of this volume is to advance the state-of-the-art. Acculturation and Parent-Child Relationships: Measurement and Development is a must-read for researchers, students, and policymakers concerned with cultural factors that affect the lives of parents and children.
Book Synopsis Drug Abuse Prevention with Multiethnic Youth by : Gilbert J. Botvin
Download or read book Drug Abuse Prevention with Multiethnic Youth written by Gilbert J. Botvin and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1995-08-12 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is known about the influence of ethnicity upon drug use? How can this knowledge be used to develop prevention programmes for multi-ethnic youth? Contributors to this invaluable book address these and other pressing questions. They consider specific problems and challenges confronting researchers involved in studying substance abuse in minority communities; explore explanations for racial and ethnic differences in drug use; and examine possible risk and protective factors which influence use. Current drug abuse prevention models in settings including schools, communities and homeless shelters are also presented.
Book Synopsis Hispanics and the Future of America by : National Research Council
Download or read book Hispanics and the Future of America written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2006-02-23 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hispanics and the Future of America presents details of the complex story of a population that varies in many dimensions, including national origin, immigration status, and generation. The papers in this volume draw on a wide variety of data sources to describe the contours of this population, from the perspectives of history, demography, geography, education, family, employment, economic well-being, health, and political engagement. They provide a rich source of information for researchers, policy makers, and others who want to better understand the fast-growing and diverse population that we call "Hispanic." The current period is a critical one for getting a better understanding of how Hispanics are being shaped by the U.S. experience. This will, in turn, affect the United States and the contours of the Hispanic future remain uncertain. The uncertainties include such issues as whether Hispanics, especially immigrants, improve their educational attainment and fluency in English and thereby improve their economic position; whether growing numbers of foreign-born Hispanics become citizens and achieve empowerment at the ballot box and through elected office; whether impending health problems are successfully averted; and whether Hispanics' geographic dispersal accelerates their spatial and social integration. The papers in this volume provide invaluable information to explore these issues.
Book Synopsis Immigrant Youth in Cultural Transition by : John W. Berry
Download or read book Immigrant Youth in Cultural Transition written by John W. Berry and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-09-30 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Classic Edition of 'Immigrant Youth in Cultural Transition', first published in 2006, includes a new introduction by the editors, describing the ongoing relevance of this volume in the context of future challenges for this vital field of study. It emphasizes the importance of continued actions and policies to improve the quality of interactions between multiple ethno-cultural groups, and highlights how these issues have developed the field of cross-cultural psychology. In the original text, an international team of psychologists with interests in acculturation, identity, and development describes the experience and adaptation of immigrant youth, using data from over 7,000 immigrant youth from diverse cultural backgrounds and national youth living in 13 countries of settlement. They explore the way in which immigrant adolescents carry out their lives at the intersection of two cultures (those of their heritage group and the national society), and how well these youth are adapting to their intercultural experience. It explores four distinct patterns followed by youth during their acculturation: *an integration pattern, in which youth orient themselves to, and identify with both cultures; *an ethnic pattern, in which youth are oriented mainly to their own group; *a national pattern, in which youth look primarily to the national society; and *a diffuse pattern, in which youth are uncertain and confused about how to live interculturally. The study shows the variation in both the psychological adaptation and the sociocultural adaptation among youth, with most adapting well. This Classic Edition continues to be highly valuable reading for researchers, graduate students, and public policy makers who have an interest in public health, psychology, anthropology, sociology, demography, education, and psychiatry.
