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Direct linkValdez, Avelardo; Cepeda, Alice; Parrish, Danielle; Horowitz, Rosalind; Kaplan, Charles – Research on Social Work Practice, 2013
Objective: This study assessed the effectiveness of an adapted Brief Strategic Family Therapy (BSFT) intervention for gang-affiliated Mexican American adolescents and their parents. Methods: A total of 200 adolescents and their family caregivers were randomized to either a treatment or a control condition. Outcomes included adolescent substance…
Descriptors: Family Counseling, Juvenile Gangs, Mexican Americans, Intervention
Valdez, Avelardo; Sifaneck, Stephen J. – Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 2004
This article discerns the role that Mexican American gang members play in drug markets, and the relationship between gang members' drug use and drug selling in South Texas. A four-part typology based on the two dimensions of gang type and gang member emerged from this qualitative analysis of 160 male gang members: Homeboys, Hustlers, Slangers, and…
Descriptors: Mexican Americans, Juvenile Gangs, Power Structure, Drug Use
Heller, Celia S. – 1966
Studies of Mexican Americans, the third largest minority group, have resulted in an effort to understand them as well as to provide opportunity of exploring whether new trends have appeared among Mexican Americans. This fast-growing group has had a profound effect in settling the Southwest and has been the product of prejudice and discrimination…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Acculturation, Curriculum
