'My Culture, My Family, My School, Me': Identifying Strengths and Challenges in the Lives and Communities of American Indian Youth.
Historically, the majority of research with American Indian (AI) youth and communities has focused on vulnerabilities, problems, and needs rather than resilience, strengths, and assets. Adding to the limited research which has examined AI youth and communities using the strengths perspective, we exa...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Child & Family Studies Vol. 22; no. 5; pp. 694 - 707 |
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