Melvin Delgado

Urban Youth Trauma (eBook, PDF)

Using Community Intervention to Overcome Gun Violence

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Trauma has unfortunately become an all-too familiar occurrence in the lives of children, with a majority of youth experiencing a traumatic event before the age of 18. With the rise of school shootings and recent March for Our Lives, this timely book will address intervention strategies for social workers and counselors to combat this negative phenomenon. Urban Youth Trauma focuses on urban violence and guns, while due attention is also paid to other forms of trauma in order to ground violence-related trauma within the constellation of multiple forms of trauma. Violence, and more specifically that related to guns, is very much associated with urban centers and youth of color. Divided into three parts, this volume traces the roots of urban youth trauma. Parts I and II provide context and foundation for the problem and intervention strategies. Part III takes the reader through a variety of intervention strategies directly related to the community's assets. The strength of Urban Youth Trauma's lies in its focus on the community itself as the key to survival, resilience, and change.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 1
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. August 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216247968
• Artikelnr.: 75138754

Autorenporträt

Melvin Delgado, MSW, PhD, is professor of social work at Boston University. He is the former chair of Macro Practice. He has over forty years of practice, research, and scholarship focused on urban population groups, specifically within the Latinx community. Delgado's research has addressed a variety of social issues and needs, and he has published over thirty books on urban community practice topics. He is currently the editor of the Oxford University book series on social justice and youth community practice. He is the author of Sanctuary Cities, Communities, and Organizations: A Nation at a Crossroads, Urban Youth Trauma: Using Community Intervention to Overcome Gun Violence, and many other books.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Section 1: Context Setting
1 Defining Trauma and Urban Trauma
2 The Nation-State and Urban Violence
3 Demographic Profile of Urban Youth of Color
Section 2: Foundation for Urban Youth Trauma
4 Trauma and Urban Youth of Color: A Socio-Political-Cultural Grounding
5 Urban Trauma: A Focus on Gun Violence
6 Urban Trauma: Multifaceted Dimensions
7 Urban Girls of Color
Section 3: Foundation for Urban Youth Community Interventions
8 Principles Guiding Community Intervention
9 A Conceptual Grounding on Youth-Led and Community-Centered Interventions
Section 4: Urban Community Interventions
10 Art, Murals, and Community Gardens
11 Social Justice Activism
12 Citizen Journalism and Photovoice
13 Faith Community
References
Index
About the Author