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A text for students in social work, emphasizing the values, knowledge, skills, and self-awareness basic to social work practice. Part I presents perspectives on ethnic-sensitive practice, with chapters on ethnicity and the life course, and various approaches to practice. Part II delineates strategies for ethnic sensitive practice, with continuing cases throughout each chapter. This fifth edition offers expanded case material, expanded discussion of concepts of ethnicity, and updated material on developments in social work practice theory. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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As the American population becomes increasingly multicultural, it becomes necessary to focus on the particular needs and experiences of different ethnicities. This book does just that within the context of the field of social work, as it explores ways in which class and ethnic factors could contribute to the assessment and intervention process.First written in response to CSWE mandates in the early 1980s for the incorporation of ethnicity in the social work practice sequence, this book is one of the most well-known and respected books on ethnic-sensitive social work practice, diversity practice, or practice with minorities. Through a generalist perspective in its approach the book includes various ethnicities, various populations -- individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities-- and various approaches to practice -- empowerment and strengths perspectives, psychosocial perspectives, problem-solving, task-centered and structural approaches.Social workers and therapists.
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