Drug Use and Ethnicity in Early Adolescence

• Main Authors: Vega, William A. (Author), Gil, Andres G. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2002.
• Series: Longitudinal Research in the Social and Behavioral Sciences: An Interdisciplinary Series
• Subjects: Psychology.; Child psychology.; School psychology.; Child and School Psychology.
• Online Access: View fulltext via EzAccess

This book presents new and important information about adolescent drug use. The book is intended for human service professionals, teachers, researchers, and students interested in the issue of early adolescent drug use and its causes and pervasiveness in a multiethnic population. Today, the field of...

Table of Contents:

• Different Worlds
• Context and Design of the Study
• Substance Use and Other Social Deviance
• Pathways to Drug Use
• Are Girls Different? A Developmental Perspective on Gender Differences in Risk Factors for Substance Use among Adolescents
• Cultural Adjustment and Hispanic Adolescent Drug Use
• Developmental Patterns of African American Adolescent Drug Use
• Prevention Implications and Conclusions.