Youth and Coping in Twelve Countries

What are the problems that concern young people today? How do young people cope? This book presents the findings of a team of international researchers, including both social scientists and practitioners, who have surveyed more than 5000 youths in twelve countries in order to find answers to these vital questions.
The book is arranged into five key sections:
Part I outlines the innovative research methods and theories underpinning the study, including the central ''intervention research paradigm''
Part II offers a composite portrait of concerns and coping strategies across the survey, examining trends by socio-economic status and gender
Part III provides detailed case-studies from Brazil, Canada, China, India, Israel, Japan, England, the US, Russia, Greece, Venezuela and the Philippines
Part IV examines special youth populations, both immigrant and impoverished
Part V draws conclusions and implications for theory and practice, and offers a basis from which helping professionals can develop successful interventions and practices

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Table of contents : Part I. Introduction
1. Our study and its methodology J. Gibson Cline, C. Baker and M. Dikaiou
2. Concepts, theories and practices M. Dikaiou
Part II. The Multinational Study
3. The multinational study: reports from Brazilian, Canadian, Chinese, Filipino, English, Ethiopian immigrant, Greek, Indian, Japanese, Russian, American and Venezuelan young people J. Gibson-Cline
Part III. National Studies of Advantaged and Non-advantaged Youth
4. Brazil: university and college students in Campinas E. Pereira
5. Canada: eighteen-year-old youths in their final year of high school L. Martinson, B. Shaw and W. Borgen
6. China: university students in Beijing during the period of reform Chen Qi and Miao Fengchun
7. England: young people in Britain's south and southwest K. Feaviour and David Acres
8. Greece: university and technical institute students in Thessaloniki M. Dikaiou and M. Haritos-Fatouras
9. India: university and technical institute students in Mumbai L. Kashyap
10. Israel: mainstream Jewish youth B. Shafrir
11. Japan: university and business school students in Tokyo K. Honda
12. Russia: university students in Moscow before and after Perestroika N. Talyzina, G. Emelianov and A. Adaskina
13. USA: university students in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania L. Maccarelli and J. Gibson-Cline
14. Venezuela: university students in Caracas M. Felce-DiPaula
Part IV. Special Youth Populations
15. Immigrant youth: Ethiopians in Israel R. Erhard
16. Impoverished youth: samples from Brazil, England and the Philippines E Pereira, K. Feaviour and G. Velazco
Part V. Conclusions and Implications for the Helping Professionals
17. Conclusions and implications for theory and practice J. Gibson-Cline