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Rethinking Social Work Practice with Multicultural Communities (Paperback)
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Rethinking Social Work Practice with Multicultural Communities (Paperback)
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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
evidence on the provision of care to multicultural communities that
provides an in-depth look at both client and provider experiences.
The following chapters offer tangible, research-based approaches to
engaging with multicultural clients and reveal often unrecognized
problems with current models of social work practice. A unique
compilation of rigorous qualitative, experimental, and
community-based studies demonstrate the effectiveness of culturally
grounded interventions and identify the specific factors associated
with positive outcomes. Areas covered include disability, marriage
and couple relationship problems, domestic violence, and mental
illness within Latinx, African American, First Nations, and South
Asian communities. As the authors in this book show, the stories of
multicultural communities are narratives of unprecedented
resourcefulness and reinvention. Yet, social work underutilizes
rich family and community cultural resources. By not facilitating
their involvement, social service systems compromise these vital
resources which social services cannot replace. In arguing that we
need to expand professional boundaries to encompass indigenous
practices, family and extended kin, and therapeutic relationships
that make sense to different cultural groups, this book will be of
interest to those studying the ways in which social work practice
can be improved to better suit the needs of a racially and
ethnically diverse population. This book was originally published
as a special issue of the Journal of Ethnic & Cultural
Diversity in Social Work.
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