Adolescent Gangs

Published in 1998, Adolescent Gangs is a valuable contribution to the field of Counseling and School Therapy.

Curtis W. Branch

Introduction. Basic Definitions and Concepts. Part I. Community Based Interventions. Welcoming Home Boyz: Building Communities through Cultural Capital. Adolescent Gangs: Old Issues, New Approaches - Practitioner's Perspective. Hope: Sustaining a Vision of the Future. Part II. Specialized Agency-based Interventions. Probation Interventions with Gang-Affiliated Youth and Their Families. Youth Violence and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder: How can the teacher assess it, and what are the implications for the classroom. Energizing and Organizing the Community. Understanding Family-Agency Dynamics. Part III. Mental Health Interventions. Culture-focused Group Therapy-Identity Issues in Gang-Involved Youth. Youth Gangs-Cognitive-Behavioral Interventions in Schools, and System Change. Pathologizing Normality or Normalizing Pathology? Summary and Conclusions.