Building Positive Self-Image in Adolescents in Foster Care: The Use of Role Models in an Interactive Group Approach.

Yancey, Antronette K.

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ERIC Number: EJ583346

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Publication Date: 1998

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Building Positive Self-Image in Adolescents in Foster Care: The Use of Role Models in an Interactive Group Approach.

Yancey, Antronette K.

Adolescence, v33 n130 p253-67 Sum 1998

Describes the development of a pilot preventive mental-health intervention, the Personal and Racial/Ethnic Identity Development and Enhancement (PRIDE) program, designed to provide components of parenting that are necessary for promoting positive self-image in ethnically marginalized adolescents and that are typically lacking in the group foster-care milieu. (Author/MKA)

Descriptors: Adolescents, Ethnicity, Foster Care, Groups, High Risk Students, Identification (Psychology), Intervention, Mental Health, Parenting Skills, Role Models, Self Concept

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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