Lewis Aptekar
Biographic Data
| ID | 3638846 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lewis Aptekar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lewis |
| FAMILY NAME | Aptekar |
| SIGNATURE | APTEKAR L |
| AFFILIATIONS | San Jose State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Street Children in Nairobi: Gender Differences in Mental Health
Conflict in the Neighborhood: Street and Working Children in the Public Space
The article defines street and working children, emphasizing that the definition of street children always includes a negative moral attribute. These false perceptions of street children, when added to the inaccuracies of the way the children are presented in the press and by reports of international organizations, exaggerate their numbers and problems, and lead toward increasing the hostility children face. A three-concept taxonomy of hostility …
Street Children in the Developing World: A Review of Their Condition
The article reviews the literature on street children and points out why there are street children in certain cultures and not in others. The reasons for their existence are related to poverty, abuse, and modernizing factors. Street children are defined and distinguished from working and refugee children. Details about the family struc ture of street children are given. How the children cope and their level of psychological functioning are discus…
Environmental Disasters in Global Perspective
The Child in the Ethnographer: Private Worlds and the Writing of Research
Are Colombian Street Children Neglected? The Contributions of Ethnographic and Ethnohistorical Approaches to the Study of Children
Data from ethnographic notes, ethnohistorical documents, and standardized tests given to Colombian street children illustrated that the children functioned with adequate mental health. Using cross-cultural comparisons, including North American "runaways," it was shown that street children lived as nomadic entertainers in a politically volatile sedentary society. They were abused by society because they challenged the concept of "family" depicted …
Family Structure and Adolescence: The Case of the Colombian Street Children
The characteristics of two family structures in Colombia and their methods of childrearing were described from participant observational data. The data illustrated that street childrenz camefrompoorfamilies that were matrifocal and of indigenous orAfrican descentt. Tley raised children for early independence. The class-dominant, Spanish patrifocal families had methods of child-rearing that demanded strict obedience to paretntal authority and dela…
A Comparison of the Bicoastal Disasters of 1989
The study used participant observational methodology to understand the psychological reactions to the Loma Prieta Earthquake and to Hurricane Hugo. Data was collected in two high impact areas; Watsonville, Califor nia and McClellanville, South Carolina. Comparisons were made between the two towns and between the two disasters. The results indicated four psychological phases of victim psychology: confusion, coping by cogni tive changes, displaced …
Street Children of Cali
How Ethnic Differences Within A Culture Influence Child Rea1ing: The Case of the Colombian Street Children
Picaresque Tragedies: The “Abandoned” Children of Colombia
Street Children of Cali
Street children of Cali
Street Children of Colombia
The characteristics of street children were examined from participant observational data, and from standardized psychological test scores from a sample of 56 male, Colombian street children who ranged in age from 7-16. The Kohs Block Design measured the children's intelligence, the Goodenough-Harris Drawing Test and the Bender Gestalt were used to measure the children's emotional and neurological functioning. The data showed the children were fun…
Using the Phenomenological Approach to Explore Integrating the Handicapped into the Nondisabled Society
I was solicited by a blind beggar in a wheelchair. From the waist up, he appeared to be a healthy young man of about 30. He was wearing stylish dark glasses, his hair had been professionally shaped, and he exuded a general air of intelligence and competence. The lower part of his body told a different story. His trousers had been purposely arranged not only to reveal his skinny and deformed legs, but also a plastic tube like those used in hospita…
Suggestions for providing services to the handicapped in Latin America
Street Children of Colombia
The characteristics of street children were examined from participant observational data, and from standardized psychological test scores from a sample of 56 male, Colombian street children who ranged in age from 7-16. The Kohs Block Design measured the children's intelligence, the Goodenough-Harris Drawing Test and the Bender Gestalt were used to measure the children's emotional and neurological functioning. The data showed the children were fun…
Conflict in the Neighborhood: Street and Working Children in the Public Space
The article defines street and working children, emphasizing that the definition of street children always includes a negative moral attribute. These false perceptions of street children, when added to the inaccuracies of the way the children are presented in the press and by reports of international organizations, exaggerate their numbers and problems, and lead toward increasing the hostility children face. A three-concept taxonomy of hostility …
Are Colombian Street Children Neglected? The Contributions of Ethnographic and Ethnohistorical Approaches to the Study of Children
Data from ethnographic notes, ethnohistorical documents, and standardized tests given to Colombian street children illustrated that the children functioned with adequate mental health. Using cross-cultural comparisons, including North American "runaways," it was shown that street children lived as nomadic entertainers in a politically volatile sedentary society. They were abused by society because they challenged the concept of "family" depicted …
How Ethnic Differences Within A Culture Influence Child Rea1ing: The Case of the Colombian Street Children
Street Children of Cali
A Comparison of the Bicoastal Disasters of 1989
The study used participant observational methodology to understand the psychological reactions to the Loma Prieta Earthquake and to Hurricane Hugo. Data was collected in two high impact areas; Watsonville, Califor nia and McClellanville, South Carolina. Comparisons were made between the two towns and between the two disasters. The results indicated four psychological phases of victim psychology: confusion, coping by cogni tive changes, displaced …
Suggestions for providing services to the handicapped in Latin America
Suggestions for providing services to the handicapped in Latin America
Using the Phenomenological Approach to Explore Integrating the Handicapped into the Nondisabled Society
I was solicited by a blind beggar in a wheelchair. From the waist up, he appeared to be a healthy young man of about 30. He was wearing stylish dark glasses, his hair had been professionally shaped, and he exuded a general air of intelligence and competence. The lower part of his body told a different story. His trousers had been purposely arranged not only to reveal his skinny and deformed legs, but also a plastic tube like those used in hospita…
Street children of Cali
Street Children of Colombia
The characteristics of street children were examined from participant observational data, and from standardized psychological test scores from a sample of 56 male, Colombian street children who ranged in age from 7-16. The Kohs Block Design measured the children's intelligence, the Goodenough-Harris Drawing Test and the Bender Gestalt were used to measure the children's emotional and neurological functioning. The data showed the children were fun…
Picaresque Tragedies: The “Abandoned” Children of Colombia
Street Children of Cali
Family Structure and Adolescence: The Case of the Colombian Street Children
The characteristics of two family structures in Colombia and their methods of childrearing were described from participant observational data. The data illustrated that street childrenz camefrompoorfamilies that were matrifocal and of indigenous orAfrican descentt. Tley raised children for early independence. The class-dominant, Spanish patrifocal families had methods of child-rearing that demanded strict obedience to paretntal authority and dela…
A Comparison of the Bicoastal Disasters of 1989
The study used participant observational methodology to understand the psychological reactions to the Loma Prieta Earthquake and to Hurricane Hugo. Data was collected in two high impact areas; Watsonville, Califor nia and McClellanville, South Carolina. Comparisons were made between the two towns and between the two disasters. The results indicated four psychological phases of victim psychology: confusion, coping by cogni tive changes, displaced …
Street Children of Cali
How Ethnic Differences Within A Culture Influence Child Rea1ing: The Case of the Colombian Street Children
Are Colombian Street Children Neglected? The Contributions of Ethnographic and Ethnohistorical Approaches to the Study of Children
Data from ethnographic notes, ethnohistorical documents, and standardized tests given to Colombian street children illustrated that the children functioned with adequate mental health. Using cross-cultural comparisons, including North American "runaways," it was shown that street children lived as nomadic entertainers in a politically volatile sedentary society. They were abused by society because they challenged the concept of "family" depicted …
The Child in the Ethnographer: Private Worlds and the Writing of Research
Street Children in the Developing World: A Review of Their Condition
The article reviews the literature on street children and points out why there are street children in certain cultures and not in others. The reasons for their existence are related to poverty, abuse, and modernizing factors. Street children are defined and distinguished from working and refugee children. Details about the family struc ture of street children are given. How the children cope and their level of psychological functioning are discus…
Environmental Disasters in Global Perspective
Conflict in the Neighborhood: Street and Working Children in the Public Space
The article defines street and working children, emphasizing that the definition of street children always includes a negative moral attribute. These false perceptions of street children, when added to the inaccuracies of the way the children are presented in the press and by reports of international organizations, exaggerate their numbers and problems, and lead toward increasing the hostility children face. A three-concept taxonomy of hostility …
Street Children in Nairobi: Gender Differences in Mental Health
Psychology (12 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Geography (5 works) · Developmental psychology (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Mental health (3 works) · Observational study (3 works)