Latino/Hispanic Liaisons and Visions for Human Behavior in the Social Environment

ISBN-13: 9780789016560 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 234 str.

Joanne R. Mattern; Jose B. Torres; Felix G. Rivera

Opis

Add to your knowledge of Latino/Hispanic diversity, attitudes, behaviors, and experiences to provide more effective services

Latino-Hispanic Liaisons and Visions for Human Behavior in the Social Environment dispels pervasive historical and contemporary misconceptions and inaccuracies and highlights the diversity of Latino/Hispanic experiences to help you provide more effective services to those clients. As editors Torres and Rivera point out, "Literature on Latinos/Hispanics reflects a dysfunctional and myopic cultural view in which they are often depicted in stereotypic characteristics and as a homogenous population."

In Latino-Hispanic Liaisons and Visions for Human Behavior in the Social Environment, you'll find chapters examining:

• the social ecology of Mexican-American child development
• caregiver well-being among Cuban and Puerto Rican mothers of mentally retarded adults
• the adjustment process among Cuban refugee families
• one Southwestern community s efforts to create a multiethnic neighborhood coalition against substance abuse
• a study of changes related to migration, family, and work in Caribbean women s lives
• and much more

"

Spis treści

• Introduction
• The Social Ecology of Child Development in the Mexican American Population: Current Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives
• Well-Being and Family Role Strains Among Cuban American and Puerto Rican Mothers of Adults with Mental Retardation
• An Integral Model of Well-Being and Development and Its Implications for Helping Professions
• The Adultification of Refugee Children: Implications for Cross-Cultural Social Work Practice
• Latinos Participating in Multiethnic Coalitions to Prevent Substance Abuse: A Case Study
• Culturally Competent Substance Abuse Treatment with Latinos
• Latino Immigrants: Patterns of Survival
• Voices of Hispanic Caribbean Women: Migration, Family, and Work
• Another Kind of Rainbow Politics
• Creating a Latino/Hispanic Alliance: Eliminating Barriers to Coalition Building
• Index
• Reference Notes Included

O autorze

Rivera, Felix G