Latinas Attempting Suicide
When Cultures, Families, and Daughters Collide
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 26 May 2011
- ISBN 9780199734726
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages240 pages
- Size 239x160x21 mm
- Weight 490 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 5 line-cuts 0
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Short description:
Among teenage Latinas in the United States, suicide attempts occur at rates sometimes twice as high as other youth. This book looks into the development of young Latinas, girls caught between two cultures, struggling to reconcile them.
MoreLong description:
Since 1991, surveys conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have shown that Latina teenagers attempt suicide at a far higher rate than other American youth in the same age group; one in seven Latinas attempt suicide while one in ten black and white girls do. While these numbers came as a shock to the general public, many urban clinicians have long suspected this disparity without having the data to confirm the problem or draw attention to it. Here, in a
compelling account of a troubling trend that draws on interviews conducted both with girls who attempted suicide and those who did not, Luis Zayas begins to unravel the mystery of why young Latinas attempt suicide in such great numbers.
Beginning with a description of the U.S. Hispanic population and the many values, beliefs, norms, and child-rearing practices that Hispanic families share in common, Zayas goes on to look at the development of young Latinas, girls caught between two cultures, struggling to reconcile them. By drawing on developmental, cultural, and family psychology and acculturation and immigration theory and research, Zayas' in-depth research forms a conceptual basis for understanding Latina suicide attempts.
He illustrates with the girls' own words, and those of their parents, how social, psychological, family, and cultural factors come together into a flashpoint. The result is a startling look at the nexus of influences that make Latina adolescence a particularly risky time.
This book presents the anatomy of experiences before, during, and after suicide attempts and suggests new ways of understanding them. More importantly, it offers researchers and clinicians a model for understanding and working with young Latinas and their families in a compassionate, culturally sensitive manner.
Zayas successfully achieves his extraordinary mission of compiling in one book the voices of Latinas who have attempted suicide as well as those of their mothers and other family members. The quality of the research, the useful clinical insights, the theoretical framework, and the research agenda suggested make this an invaluable resource for anyone interested in Latinas.
Table of Contents:
Preface
1. First, The Family
2. A Brief Research History
3. Contexts of Development
4. Daughters, Familism, and Adulthood
5. New Findings
6. Anatomy of the Suicide Attempt
7. Explanations
8. Saving Young Latinas
Epilogue
Appendix
References
Notes
Index
