Kelley Hartshorn

co-author of "Indigenous Adolescent Development: Psychological, Social, Historical Context"

February 4, 2014

Kelley J. Sittner Hartshorn is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at Oklahoma State University. She received her Ph.D. in 2011 from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her research is in the areas of crime and delinquency, mental health, substance use, and inequality, with a particular focus on North American Indigenous communities. She has worked with the Healing Pathways Project for more than four years.

This volume explores the first four waves of a longitudinal diagnostic study of Indigenous adolescents and their families. The first study of its kind, it calls attention to culturally specific risk factors that affect Indigenous (American Indian and Canadian First Nations) adolescent development and describe the historical and social contexts in which Indigenous adolescents come of age. It provides unique information on ethical research and development within Indigenous communities, psychiatric diagnosis at early and mid-adolescence, and suggestions for putting the findings into action through empirically-based interventions.

URL: https://library.okstate.edu/news/celebratingbooks/2014-honorees/kelley-hartshorn

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