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12/95/

ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED339780 AUTHOR: Jones, Reginald L., Ed.


TITLE: Black Adolescents.

YEAR PUBLISHED: 1989
NOTE: 446 p.
AVAILABILITY: Cobb and Henry Publishers, P.O. Box 4900,
Berkeley, CA 94704-4900 ($25.95 paperback; ISBN-0-943539-01
3--$36.96 hardcover).

ABSTRACT: This volume presents an overview of contemporary
black adolescents from social, psychological, economic,
educational, medical, historical, and comparative
perspectives, with most emphasizing the roles that race,
socioeconomic status, and environmental forces play in this
critical period. The volume includes 19 chapters by various
authors arranged into 8 sections. The first section treats
perspectives in an overview essay by J. T. Gibbs, a look at
important developments in black adolescent research by B.
G. Holliday, and a discussion of comparative personality
development by C. B. Murray and others. The second section
treats youth in diverse settings in J. A. Banks' look at
black youth in white suburbs and C. C. Lee's description of
rural black adolescents. The third section is on physical
and mental health and includes B. Staggars' report on black
adolescent health care issues and H. F. Meyers' paper on
urban stress. The fourth section explores psychosocial
development and socialization in R. L. Taylor's paper on
social construction of identity and M. L. Clark's paper on
friendships and peer relations. The fifth section looks at
education in R. Tobais' report on issues and programs and
C. B. Murray and H. H. Fairchild's paper on models of
underachievement. Section 6 is on career development and
employment with papers by I. Baly on career and vocational
development and J. Malveaux on transitions to the labor
market. Section 7 examines counseling and psychotherapy in
chapters by C. C. Lee and A. J. Franklin. A final section
on special topics looks at antecedents and outcomes of
adolescent pregnancy by D. Scott-Jones and others, teen
parenting by L. Goddard and W. Cavil, substance abuse by E.
G. Singleton, and black youth and the criminal justice
system by F. F. Hawkins and N. Jones. Included are
bibliographic sketches of the authors, and author and
subject indexes. All chapters include extensive references.
(JB)

KEY DESCRIPTORS: Adolescent-Development; Black-Education;
Black-Students; Counseling-; Drug-Abuse; Early-Parenthood;
Health-; Mental-Health; Research-Reports;
Rural-Environment; Secondary-Education; Social-Development;
Suburban Environment; Urban-Youth
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Adolescents-; *Black-Youth

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