Overview

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.

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Author:   Melvin Delgado
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Rowman & Littlefield
Dimensions:   Width: 15.00cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 22.80cm
Weight:   0.408kg
ISBN:  

9781538119037

ISBN 10:   153811903
Pages:   302
Publication Date:   07 August 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Part I: Context Setting Chapter 1: Introduction and Overview Chapter 2: Definition of Trauma and Urban Trauma Chapter 3: Demographics and Urban Youth of Color Chapter 4: The Extent of the Problem: Urban Trauma Related Statistics Part II: Foundation for Urban Youth Community Interventions Chapter 5: Guiding Principles and Values Chapter 6: Community Capacity Enhancement/Nontraditional Settings Chapter 7: Intersectionality and Urban Youth of Color Part III: Urban Community Interventions This section will specifically focus on community intervention that have particular appeal to youth of color and community institutions. It is important to note that each of these chapters will have case illustrations to concretize key concepts raised in the previous two sections. It is important that community youth have a wide range of choices as to projects because of a range of issues, talents, and needs. This section will provide readers with a range of projects that illustrate the central thrust of this proposed book. Not every organization can or will provide a range of projects. However, collectively there may be a comprehensive system that can be put in place over a period of time to take into account local circumstances and demographics. Urban communities with high numbers of youth who are undocumented will emphasize certain projects over others, for example. Chapter 8: Art, Murals, and Healing Community Gardens Chapter 9: Social Justice Activism Chapter 10: Houses of Worship Chapter 11: Citizen Journalism and Photovoice tChapter 12: Recommendations Epilogue

Reviews

This book is personal, powerful and prolific. The author pulls the curtain back and shows readers America's violent structures and polices that fuel neighborhood trauma in communities of color. A rallying call for social workers to organize around this important social justice issue. -- Dexter R. Voisin, University of Chicago

Urban Youth Trauma by Delgado (Boston Univ.) addresses one of the most vexing problems currently facing urban minority youth in contemporary America, namely easy access to guns and the consequent and ever-present threat of falling victim to gun violence. This issue is especially pressing when considering that hazards from exposure to indiscriminate shootings occur with unremitting regularity in many cities, compounded by urban law enforcement who have also contributed to the injury and death tolls with their occasional excessive use of force. In the early chapters Delgado presents extensive and convincing evidence of the dangers minority youth face today in their communities from the threat of gun violence, including the potential for increased incidence of PTSD and a variety of other mental health difficulties. In later chapters, he addresses the kinds of social programs that can help resolve these problems, helping children to overcome these obstacles to live useful, productive, and satisfying lives. . . [A] richly informative and useful work. Summing Up: Recommended. All readership levels. * Choice Reviews * This book is personal, powerful and prolific. The author pulls the curtain back and shows readers America’s violent structures and polices that fuel neighborhood trauma in communities of color. A rallying call for social workers to organize around this important social justice issue. -- Dexter R. Voisin, University of Chicago

This book is personal, powerful and prolific. The author pulls the curtain back and shows readers America’s violent structures and polices that fuel neighborhood trauma in communities of color. A rallying call for social workers to organize around this important  social justice issue. -- Dexter R. Voisin, University of Chicago

Author Information

Dr. Melvin Delgado, M.S.W, Ph.D., is professor of social work at Boston University School of Social Work. 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. Dr. 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 series editor on Social Justice and Youth Community Practice, Oxford University Press.

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