1st Edition

Cross-Cultural Practice with Couples and Families

By John S Shalett, Philip M Brown Copyright 1997
222 Pages
by Routledge

222 Pages
by Routledge

222 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more
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

Biography

John S. Shalett, Phillip M Brown