Rethinking Social Work Practice with Multicultural Communities

ISBN-13: 9781032089355 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 168 str.

Yolanda C. Padilla; Ruth McRoy; Rocío Calvo

Opis

This book rethinks approaches to social work practice with diverse racial and ethnic communities, who needs are often not met by providers who are not fully prepared to work with them. This book was first published as a special issue of Journal of Ethnic & Cultural Diversity in Social Work.

Spis treści

Preface – Rethinking practice with multicultural communities: Lessons from research-based applications  1. State of the art in U.S. multicultural social work practice: Client expectations and provider challenges  2. Parents Taking Action: Reducing disparities through a culturally informed intervention for Latinx parents of children with autism  3. A systematic review of culturally relevant marriage and couple relationship education programs for African-American couples  4. Cultural adaptations in psychosocial interventions for post-traumatic stress disorder among refugees: A systematic review  5. Experiences of African-American men with serious mental illness and their kinship networks within the mental health care system  6. A culturally grounded biopsychosocial assessment utilizing Indigenous ways of knowing with the Cowichan Tribes  7. "If we’re not serving our own community, no one else would": The lived experience of providers in ethnically similar therapeutic dyads at South Asian women’s organizations

O autorze

Yolanda C. Padilla is Director of the Center for Diversity and Social & Economic Justice, Council on Social Work Education, and the Clara Pope Willoughby Centennial Professor in Child Welfare in the Steve Hicks School of Social Work at the University of Texas at Austin, USA.

Ruth McRoy is the Donahue and DiFelice Endowed Professor and a co-founding director of the Research and Innovations in Social, Economic, and Environmental Equity (RISE) in the School of Social Work at Boston College, Massachusetts, USA.

Rocío Calvo is Associate Professor and founding Director of the Latinx Leadership Initiative in the School of Social Work at Boston College, Massachusetts, USA.