International Perspectives on Disability Services: The Same But Different

ISBN-13: 9780789020932 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 160 str.

Francis K. O. Yuen

Opis

'International Perspectives on Disability Services' presents different cultural and societal contexts on services for people with disabilities. This text covers a range of topics on disabilities related to physical status, emotional conditions and community settings.

Spis treści

• About the Contributors
  
• We Are Different and We Are the Same (Francis K. O. Yuen)
  
• Disability Through the Lens of Culture (Kristine D. Tower)
  
• Psychotherapy with Deaf and Hard of Hearing Individuals: Perceptions of the Consumer (Carol B. Cohen)
  
• Life Participation Approaches to Aphasia: International Perspectives on Communication Rehabilitation (Larry Boles and Mimi Lewis)
  
• An Exploratory Study on Attitudes Toward Persons with Disabilities Among U.S. and Japanese Social Work Students (Reiko Hayashi and Mariko Kimura)
  
• Max versus Max: Disability-Related Services in the U.S. and Germany (Ute C. Orgassa)
  
• Community Integration of Older People with Developmental Disabilities in Hong Kong (Raymond Man-hung Ngan, Mark Kin-yin Li, and Jacky Chau-kiu Cheung)
  
• Hmong Americans’ Changing Views and Approaches Towards Disability: Shaman and Other Helpers (Serge C. Lee and Francis K. O. Yuen)
  
• Index
  
• Reference Notes Included
  

O autorze

Francis K. O. Yuen, DSW, ACSW, is Professor for the Division of Social Work at California State University in Sacramento. He is widely published in the areas of family health social work practice, disability, grant writing, program planning and evaluation, substance abuse, international social work, and services to refugees and immigrants. He is a member of several editorial boards, including those of the Journal of Social Work in Disability & Rehabilitation and the Journal of Ethnic & Cultural Diversity in Social Work. He has authored and edited many books, including several for The Haworth Press, Inc., such a Family Health Social Work Practice: A Knowledge and Skills Casebook (2003), Family Health Social Work Practice with Children and Family (In-Press), and the upcoming Disability and Social Work Education: Practice and Policy Issues. For over a decade, Dr. Yuen has been a consultant for local and government organizations on program evaluation, grant writing, proposal review, and human diversity issues.