Losing generations : adolescents in high-risk settings /

For millions of adolescents ... the context of their lives is one of meager and uncertain income, dilapidated neighborhoods, inadequate schools, dangerous streets, and violent homes. /// Such environments not only lack the basic support systems [but] are actually dangerous and destructive to young p...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Corporate Author: National Research Council (U.S.). Panel on High-Risk Youth
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1993.
Subjects:
Youth with social disabilities > United States.
People with disabilities.
Disabled Persons
Jeunes socialement défavorisés > États-Unis.
Personnes handicapées.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
People with disabilities
Youth with social disabilities
Adolescenten.
Probleemgedrag.
Sociale problemen.
United States
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Adolescents at risk
  • Earnings and employment
  • Families
  • Neighborhoods
  • Health and health care
  • Academic schooling
  • From school to work
  • Juvenile and criminal justice
  • Adolescents in the child welfare system
  • Good practice : community-based interventions and services
  • Conclusions and research directions.

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