Adolescence Growing Up in America Today 1st Edition by Joy Dryfoos, Carol Barkin ISBN 978-0195179613 0195179617

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ISBN 10:   0195179617

ISBN 13: 978-0195179613

Author: Joy G. Dryfoos, Carol Barkin

Of the 33 million adolescents in the United States, almost 10 million are at risk of failing to become responsible adults. They attend schools that do not serve their needs, lack the support of caring adults, and, as a result, are alienated from mainstream society. African-American and Hispanic children, increasingly segregated in disadvantaged neighborhoods, are particularly vulnerable.

In Adolescence: Growing Up in America Today, a follow-up to Joy Dryfoos’s landmark volume, Adolescents at Risk (OUP, 1991), Joy Dryfoos and Carol Barkin take a close look at the lives of young people, identify some of their problems, and present solutions based on state-of-the-art prevention and treatment strategies. They examine important issues in adolescents’ lives–sex, violence, drugs, health, mental health, and education. Reviewing successful prevention programs and policy studies, Dryfoos and Barkin demonstrate that we know what to do to prevent high-risk behaviors: young people need to establish relationships with adults; parents need to be involved in their children’s lives; and programs need to be comprehensive, sensitive to cultural differences, and staffed by highly trained personnel.

Dryfoos and Barkin argue that turning our backs on adolescents will lead to disturbing consequences: the achievement gap will grow, outcomes will worsen, school systems will struggle with the growing disparities, and we as a nation will fall behind the rest of the world in our capacity to educate our youth. If, however, we decide that we want a better quality of life for our children, we will insure that every young person has access to an excellent education. Schools, youth workers, and parents cannot alone provide a better quality of life for our adolescents, but each must play a major role, and all must work together. Providing a roadmap for the development and implementation of sound policies for American teenagers in the twenty-first century, this volume is a must-read for anyone interested in the future of our nation’s youth.

Table of contents: 

ONE Why Look at Teens in the 21st Century?

TWO Status of Youth Today

THREE Sex

FOUR Violence and Delinquency

FIVE Drugs

SIX Health and Mental Health

SEVEN Education

EIGHT Quality of Life

NINE Summing It Up

TEN Worst-Case Scenario for the Future

ELEVEN Positive Scenario for the Future Index

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