Smart and Sassy: The Strengths of Inner-City Black Girls

by Joyce West Stevens

Overview

Empirically based, the daily experience of adolescent black females is explicated within an explanatory model of social context and developmental theory. The author argues that adolescence must be seen from strengths and health perspectives. Self-relatedness or intersubjectivity expressed in assertion, empathy, and recognition is the core matrix of development where social contextual responses can be adaptive or maladaptive.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198028390
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	02/28/2002
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	649 KB

About the Author

Boston University School of Social Work

Table of Contents

Prologue: A Book About the Strengths of Inner-City Black GirlsPart 1: Theory Overview1. Risk and Resiliency in Social Contexts2. Adolescent Developmental Theories3. Person-Process-Context: An Ecological Transactional ModelPart 2: Developmental Domains4. Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Role Commitment5. Care Protective Sensibility and Role Model Formulation6. Decision Making, Dating, and Mate Selection7. Opportunity Mobility and Adulthood PreparationPart 3: Clinical Implications8. A Social Work Practice Model: Core Principles of InterventionEpilogue