Ethnic-Sensitive Social Work Practice

Ethnic-Sensitive Social Work Practice

Description: "Features
One of the most well respected texts on ethnic-sensitive practice, first written in response to CSWE mandates in the early 1980s for the incorporation of ethnicity into the social work practice sequence.

Takes a generalist perspective, with coverage of individuals, families groups, organizations, and communities; and covers many practice theories including strengths or empowerment perspectives, problem-solving, task-centered, psychosocial and structural perspectives.

Coverage of oppressed groups and various European immigrant groups includes African Americans, Asian Americans, American Indians, Latino cultures, and various immigrant populations.

New To This Edition
Coverage of a developing “New Ethnicity” in the U.S., with an emerging multiracial population.
Coverage of the impact of welfare reform on various ethnic groups and immigrant communities, in Chapters 1, 8 (Direct Practice), 9 (Macro Practice), 12 (Practice in the Public Sector), and 13 (Managed Care and Ethnicity).
New practice-oriented vignettes included in various chapters.

Table Of Contents
I. CONCEPTUAL FORMULATIONS AND PERSPECTIVES ON ETHNIC-SENSITIVE PRACTICE.

1. We, the People of the United States…

2. The Ethnic Reality.

3. Ethnicity and the Life Course.

4. The Layers of Understanding.

5. Approaches to Social Work Practice and the Ethnic Reality.

6. Assumptions and Principles for Ethnic-Sensitive Practice.

II. ETHNIC-SENSITIVE PRACTICE.

7. Ethnic-Sensitive Generalist Practice.

8. Adapting Strategies and Procedures for Ethnic-Sensitive Practice: Direct Practice.

9. Ethnic-Sensitive Macro Practice.

10. Ethnic-Sensitive Practice with Refugees and New Immigrants.

11. Ethnic-Sensitive Practice with Families.

12. Ethnic-Sensitive Practice in the Public Sector: From AFDC to TANF.

13. Ethnic-Sensitive Practice in Health Care.

Appendix 1.
Community Profile.

Appendix 2.
Guide for Making an Ethnic Assessment.

Index. "

Wynetta Devore, Syracuse University
Elfriede G. Schlesinger, Rutgers University

Publisher: Allyn & Bacon

Published: 1999

ISBN: 0-205-28165-6

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