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Multicultural Approaches in Caring for Children, Youth, and Their Families
Neil A. Cohen, Ph.D., California State University, Los Angeles
Thanh V. Tran, Ph.D., California State University, Los Angeles
Siyon Y. Rhee, Ph.D., California State University, Los Angeles

ISBN-10: 0205420281
ISBN-13:  9780205420285

Publisher:  Pearson
Copyright:  2007
Format:  Paper; 400 pp
Published:  05/05/2006
Status: Instock


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Multicultural Approaches in Caring for Children, Youth, and Their Families emphasizes the importance of utilizing a pro-active, strengths-based practice strategy in working with multi-culturally diverse children, youth, families, organizations and communities.

 

The text adds to the body of child welfare practice knowledge by blending contemporary child issues with emphasis on practice skill enhancement.  The book’s authors have systematically focused on serving communities, child welfare organizations and families of different racial, ethnic, religious, economic, and structural backgrounds.  Emphasis is placed on developing a pro-active, strengths-based practice strategy. Each chapter contains rich case examples wherein the respective authors present teaching points designed to further the reader’s comprehension of knowledge for practice.  Our book also contains new material on white ethnics, working with torture victims, issues surrounding fairness and equity in the child welfare system, and administrative, policy practices and their interface with multicultural dynamics in services to children, youth and families.


Features

  • ”Multicultural Practice Competencies and Fairness…” (Ch. 3) fully discusses how fairness is one of the fundamental issues in child welfare practice.  The authors offer a comprehensive explanation of social exchange theory, distributive justice and procedural justice as they relate to the child welfare system and practice.
  • “American Indian and Alaska Native Children….” (Ch. 7) includes an excellent socio-politico- discussion and analysis, stressing the importance for students and practitioners to develop knowledge about AI/AN clients’ historical, cultural, social, and political backgrounds.
  • “Social Services Among White Ethnic and Middle Eastern Children, Youth and Families,” (Ch. 8) presents materials that offer effective child welfare intervention strategies as they specifically relate to Irish, Italians, Russian Jews, Palestinian Immigrants and Arab Americans.
  • “Transcultural Approaches in Working with Traumatized Refugee and Asylum Seeking Children, Youth, and their Families,” (Ch. 9) is one of the rare published materials on this population in the human service practice fields.  Dr. Berthold’s previous  work in Southeast Asia’s displaced persons’ camps plus her present position at the Program for Torture Victims provides students and practitioners with a keen insight to the issues presented by clients who have had a profoundly traumatic history.


Table of Contents

 

                                                                                                                               

Preface.

1. The Boundaries of Child Welfare.

2. Fairness and Multicultural Competence in the Child Welfare System.

3. Child Welfare Perspectives and Approaches with African American Children, Youth and Families.

4. American Indian and Alaska Native Children: A Legacy of Suffering, Survival and Strength.

5. Child Welfare Practice with Asian and Pacific Islander American Children, Youth and Families.

6. Multicultural Child Welfare Practice With Latino Children, Youth And Families.

7. Social Services Among White Ethnic and Middle Eastern Children, Youth and Families.

8. Transcultural Approaches in Working with Traumatized Refugee and Asylum Seeking Children, Youth and Their Families.

9. Administrative Issues in Diversity.

 

Summary and Closing Remarks.

               

 

 



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Multicultural Approaches in Caring for Children, Youth, and Their Families, First Edition

 

Neil A. Cohen, Professor Emeritus, California State University, Los Angeles

Thanh V. Tran, California State University, Los Angeles

Siyon Y. Rhee, California State University, Los Angeles

 

Multicultural Approaches in Caring for Children, Youth, and Their Families emphasizes       a proactive, strengths-based practice strategy for working with multi-culturally diverse children, youth, families, organizations and communities.

 

The book is systematically focused on working with communities, child welfare organizations, and families of different racial, ethnic, religious, economic, and structural backgrounds.  Emphasis is on developing strategies for a proactive, strengths-based practice.

 

 

What Reviewers Are Saying:

 

“This book offers practice knowledge that is relevant, important, and timely, is exactly what I have been searching for, and contains information that is necessary for today’s social workers….What [is] different in this proposed text is the depth of discussion of various cultures and challenges that we must address in our jobs, but which is (usually) only minimally discussed in other texts.”

--Jill C. Keogh, University of Missouri, Columbia

 

“The main attraction of this book is that it addresses critical issues:  history, dynamics, issues in a global and changing society.  These are issues that sometimes get overlooked in other texts….I would definitely be interested in using this text.”

--Susan Bowers, Northern Illinois University

 

“These chapters are well-written, sufficiently analytical and critical, and interesting

for students to read. The case vignettes discussed in various chapters are key strengths

of the text.”

--Sharon C. Wetterau, Ohio State University

 

 

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