John S Shalett, Philip M Brown

Cross-Cultural Practice with Couples and Families

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Produktbeschreibung

Cross-Cultural Practice with Couples and Families prepares you for the ways that cultural realities can affect your social work practice with both couples and families. You will gain in-depth exposure to a variety of cultural values and perspectives and learn to identify similarities and differences between and among different ethnic families. This will lead you to a deeper, more thorough understanding of the roles, dynamics, and particular challenges of social work, both current and historical.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. April 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 153mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 403g
• ISBN-13: 9780789000323
• ISBN-10: 0789000326
• Artikelnr.: 21313628

Autorenporträt

John S. Shalett, Phillip M Brown

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Preface
* The Components of Healthy Marriages: Perceptions of Israeli Social
Workers
* Treatment Implications for Interracial Couples
* Child Welfare Practice with Chinese Families: Assessment Issues for
Immigrants from the People's Republic of China
* Understanding and Working with Haitian Immigrant Families
* The Native American Family Circle: Roots of Resiliency
* Acculturative Stress, Social Support, and Depression in Korean
American Families
* Clinical Impasses for African American Social Workers
* Social Constructionist Inquiry in Family Therapy with Chinese
Americans
* Cultural Values and Domestic Violence
* Cross-Cultural Considerations in Family Preservation Practice
* Religion as Invisible Culture: Knowing About and Knowing With
* Madness in the Family: The "Windigo"
* Index
* Reference Notes Included