1st Edition

Rethinking Social Work Practice with Multicultural Communities

Edited By Yolanda C. Padilla, Ruth McRoy, Rocío Calvo Copyright 2020
168 Pages
by Routledge

162 Pages
by Routledge

162 Pages
by Routledge

With research showing that clients from diverse racial and ethnic groups disproportionately experience barriers in their interactions with social services and that providers recognize the need to be better prepared to work with these groups, this book invites us to rethink current approaches to social work practice with multicultural communities. We begin with a synthesis of the current... Read more

Preface – Rethinking practice with multicultural communities: Lessons from research-based applications

Yolanda C. Padilla, Ruth McRoy, and Rocío Calvo

1. State of the art in U.S. multicultural social work practice: Client expectations and provider challenges

Katarzyna Olcon

2. Parents Taking Action: Reducing disparities through a culturally informed intervention for Latinx parents of children with autism

Kristina Lopez, Sandra Magaña, Miguel Morales, and Emily Iland

3. A systematic review of culturally relevant marriage and couple relationship education programs for African-American couples

Krystallynne S. Mikle and Dorie J. Gilbert

4. Cultural adaptations in psychosocial interventions for post-traumatic stress disorder among refugees: A systematic review

Mitra Naseh, Mark J. Macgowan, Eric F. Wagner, Zahra Abtahi, Miriam Potocky, and Paul H. Stuart

5. Experiences of African-American men with serious mental illness and their kinship networks within the mental health care system

Samantha M. Hack, Christopher R. Larrison, Melanie E. Bennett, and Alicia Lucksted

6. A culturally grounded biopsychosocial assessment utilizing Indigenous ways of knowing with the Cowichan Tribes

Emma Elliott-Groves

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

Swathi M. Reddy

Biography

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.