Building upon the author's integrative and interactive ideas about human services fields, this book presents an intercultural perspective of social work education, practice, and research with culturally-linguistically-relationally underprivileged minority groups in the local and global communities,
Multicultural Perspectives in Social Work Practice with Families
โ Scribed by Elaine Congress; Manny J. Gonzalez
- Publisher
- Springer Publishing Company, Incorporated
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 409
- Edition
- 3
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Synopsis
Encompassing the most current issues faced by multicultural families across the lifespan and the social workers who serve them, this popular textbook contains ten new chapters and provides content that has been significantly expanded throughout. These new and reconceived chapters offer professors and social work graduate students a broader and more comprehensive take on the key issues that arise when treating families from diverse cultural backgrounds and current, evidence-based models for assessment and treatment. New chapters include: Evidence-based models of care for ethnically-diverse families Practice with Asian-American families Practice with Native American and indigenous families Practice with Hispanic families Practice with Arab families Practice with adolescents Practice with families when there is risk of suicide Practice with families dealing with substance use and abuse Practice with families around health issues Legal issues with immigrants Contributors to the text are leaders in the field of multicultural issues that encompass a wide range of racial and ethnic populations. Updated case studies, vignettes, and statistical data underscore the book's content.
โฆ Subjects
Family social work -- United States. ; Minorities -- Services for -- United States. ; Ethnicity -- United States. ; Multiculturalism -- United States.; SOC008000; SOC025000; SOC025000
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