Drug Use Trajectories Among Minority Youth

Drug Use Trajectories Among Minority Youth edited by Yonette F. Thomas, LeShawndra N. Price.

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...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Thomas, Yonette F. (Editor), Price, LeShawndra N. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
Edition:1st ed. 2016.
Series:Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Sociology.
Developmental psychology.
Psychiatry.
Public health.
Behavioral sciences.
Electronic resources (E-books)
Online Access:Click to view e-book
Holy Cross Note:Loaded electronically.
Electronic access restricted to members of the Holy Cross Community.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Yonette Thomas and LeShawndra Price
  • Overview and Perspectives: Denise Kandel and Yonette Thomas
  • Developmental Trajectories of Drug Use Among African-Americans: Denise Kandel & Yonette Thomas
  • An agenda for longitudinal research on substance use and abuse with Hispanics in the U.S. and with Latin American populations Jorge Delva; Andrew Grogan-Kaylor; Fernando H. Andrade; Marya Hynes; Ninive Sanchez; & Cristina Bares
  • Multiple Substance Use Disorders in Juvenile Detainees (Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 2004): Gary McClelland; Katherine S. Elkington Linda A. Teplin and Karen M. Abram
  • The Crossover Effect:  Evidence from a Community Longitudinal Study of African Americans: Margaret Ensminger;  Hee-Soon Juon; Kate E. Fothergill; Kerry M. Green; Elaine E. Doherty; Judith A. Robertson
  • The Influence of informal Social Control Processes on Drug Trajectories and Delinquent Behavior among Mexican American Gang Members: Avelardo Valdez; Alice Cepeda; Charles Kaplan
  • Racial Differences in Substance Use: Using Longitudinal Data to Fill Gaps in Our Understanding: Helene Raskin White and Rolf Loeber
  • Predictors of growth trajectories of substance use from 9th to 11th grade among Hispanic adolescents in Southern California: Jennifer B. Unger; Lourdes Baezconde-Garbanati; Anamara Ritt-Olson; Daniel W. Soto;Chih-Ping Chou
  • Developmental Trajectories of Substance Use Risk and Resilience for You th of Mexican Origin during the Transition from Childhood to Early Adolescence: Rand Conger
  • Latino Adolescent Substance Use in Emerging Immigrant Communities: Implications for Intervention Charles R. Martinez Jr.; Heather H. McClure; J. Mark Eddy
  • The Stress of Discrimination: A Possible Influence on Drug Use Trajectory?: Clifford Broman
  • Examining Intergroup Differences in Intra-individual Change: the role of protective factors: Meg Gerrard & Frederick X. Gibbons
  • TITLE TBA: Michele Cooley Strickland
  • Trajectories of Substance Use: Academic Performance and Graduation Differentials among African American, Hispanic, and White Secondary School students: Marie-Claude Jipguep; Roderick J. Harrison; and Jennifer Goode
  • Race/Ethnicity, Religiosity and Differences and Similarities in American Adolescents’ Substance Use
  • John M. Wallace, Jr. Patterns of Risk Behavior Change from Adolescence to Emerging Adulthood: Implications for HIV/STD Racial Disparities: Denise D. Hallfors; Abigail A. Haydon and Carolyn Tucker Halpern; and Bonita J. Iritani
  • Race and Ethnic Influences on Mental and Substance Abuse Disorders: The Case of Caribbean Blacks: Krim Lacey and James S. Jackson
  • A Contextual-Genetics Approach to Adolescent Drug Use and Sexual Risk Behavior Gene H. Brody, Steven R. H. Beach, and Robert A. Philibert
  • Drug Abuse Preventive Interventions for Hispanic Youth: State of the Science and Implications for Future Researc h: Guillermo Prado, David Cordova, Nicole Cano, Margaret Arzon, Hilda Pantin, and C. Hendricks Brown
  • TITLE TBA: Debra Furr-Holden
  • Final Considerations and New Directions
  • Yonette Thomas and LeShawndra Price.

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