Smart and Sassy: The Strengths of Inner-City Black Girls

Smart and Sassy: The Strengths of Inner-City Black Girls

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1-214

  Stevens, Joyce West ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Development; Developmental domains; Empathy; Resilience; Risk; Self relatedness; Social assets; Social ecological context; Strengths

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749623188     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195121643.001.0001     Document Type: Book

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