By Joyce West Stevens
In accordance with learn findings, shrewdpermanent and Sassy: The Strengths of internal urban Black women makes use of a beginning of theology, philosophy, sociology, human improvement, and contextual psychodynamic conception to appreciate how Black women create significant identities. those significant wisdom parts are interwoven with energy and health and wellbeing views to theorize and interpret adolescent lives. awarded of their personal language, the Black ladies' authentic self-narratives, team interactions, dialogs, and case illustrations show visceral and poignant tales that in actual fact point out they're brave, clever, and spirited.Smart and Sassy bargains a developmental- and contextual-based version of intervention that may be used as a supportive counseling consultant for adolescent maturation. Stevens asserts that an exam of such ladies and their households offers information regarding competence and social resources that advertise fit improvement and optimistic social adjustment. even though it bargains a selected ethnic concentration, this article offers authoritative perception into the developmental concerns confronting all children. Its framework promotes serious considering abilities in either undergraduate and graduate scholars, and every case representation positive aspects research questions and matters for dialogue.
Read Online or Download Smart and Sassy: The Strengths of Inner-City Black Girls PDF
Best parenting books
Parenting for Dummies (2nd Edition)
We people are lovely smart. We’ve mastered hearth, invented the wheel, calculated the age of the Universe, despatched humans to the Moon, outfitted machines that imagine, and cracked the genome. So you’d imagine that with all our smarts, an individual would’ve get a hold of a surefire formulation for elevating young children.
Dont Give Me That Attitude 24 Rude Selfish Insensitive Things Kids Do and How to Stop Them
Does your child by no means take no for a solution and insist issues move his method? Do her theatrics depart you tired on the finish of the day? Are you resorting to bribes and threats to get your child to do chores? Does he cheat, bitch, or blame others for his difficulties? Do you're feeling you’re working a resort rather than a house?
Baby Play And Learn: 160 Games and Learning Activities for the First Three Years
The main entire ebook of video games and studying actions for infants and tots A baby's so much fast interval of development and improvement occurs throughout the first 3 years. that is why baby improvement professional Penny Warner deals a hundred and sixty age-appropriate principles for video games and actions that may supply hours of developmental studying possibilities and rewards for infants.
- Building a Parenting Agreement That Works: How To Put Your Kids First When Your Marriage Doesn't Last (2005)
- The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind
- Parenting and Professing: Balancing Family Work with an Academic Career
- The Teenage Brain: A Neuroscientist's Survival Guide to Raising Adolescents and Young Adults
- Healing the Angry Brain_ How Understanding the Way Your Brain Works Can Help You Control Anger and Aggression
- Anger Management For Dummies
Additional info for Smart and Sassy: The Strengths of Inner-City Black Girls
Sample text
She's also told her Aunt Mae, her mother's sister, whom she talks to a lot. The two of them get along well together. When she started her menstrual period it was Aunt Mae that she first told. They do lots of things together; they go shopping and to the movies a lot. The two of them are thinking about having a family book club. It was Aunt Mae who told her mother to let her wear lipstick. Aunt Mae is a few years younger than her mother, with no children, and divorced. She said that she is still a virgin.
This monumental but rudimentary work did not use the resiliency construct as an explanatory descriptor. Indeed, in retrospect, the children and youth of the civil rights era were resilient. Irrespective of Coles's study, the investigation of the strengths of black children did not gain currency. However, given new theoretical insights on resilience, a retrospective examination of the children and youth of the civil rights era is needed. Despite the lack of documentation from the social science disciplines, Halberstam (1998), a journalist, chronicles the civil rights protest era as a campaign initiated and sustained by youth.
Upon completion of the exercise, the girls were surprised to learn that some of the qualities they identified in the women that they held in esteem were qualities they possessed themselves. The girls began to see themselves differently once they identified their own strengths as grounded in ethnic pride. " Study Questions and Issues: (1) Discuss why you think this exercise could enhance agency. (2) Is this an exercise that you think could be adopted in individual work with an adolescent girl? Explain.