Multicultural Approaches in Caring for Children, Youth, and Their FamiliesNeil A. Cohen, Thanh V. Tran, Siyon Y. Rhee Pearson, Allyn and Bacon Publishers, 2007 - 388 páginas 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. |
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... social workers work with families , we make decisions about distributing resources according to our assessment of the need and the availability of resources . As with organizational rules , our own informal personal rules influence social ...
... social workers work with families , we make decisions about distributing resources according to our assessment of the need and the availability of resources . As with organizational rules , our own informal personal rules influence social ...
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... social worker to acknowledge the presence and power of one's own cultural background , as well as its nonuniversal character . Given that this cultural limitation will hold for all or most of us equally - clients and social workers ...
... social worker to acknowledge the presence and power of one's own cultural background , as well as its nonuniversal character . Given that this cultural limitation will hold for all or most of us equally - clients and social workers ...
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... social worker can be increased by expanded opportunities for social work education , including distance education ; acceler- ated BSW - MSW degrees ; internships ; tuition assistance ; and certificates or associate degrees to help entry ...
... social worker can be increased by expanded opportunities for social work education , including distance education ; acceler- ated BSW - MSW degrees ; internships ; tuition assistance ; and certificates or associate degrees to help entry ...
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