Cross-Cultural Practice with Couples and Families

Cross-Cultural Practice with Couples and Families prepares you for the ways that cultural realities can affect your social work practice with both couples and families. You will gain in-depth exposure to a variety of cultural values and perspectives and learn to identify similarities and differences between and among different ethnic families. This will lead you to a deeper, more thorough understanding of the roles, dynamics, and particular challenges of social work, both current and historical.

John S. Shalett, Phillip M Brown

Contents Preface - The Components of Healthy Marriages: Perceptions of Israeli Social Workers - Treatment Implications for Interracial Couples - Child Welfare Practice with Chinese Families: Assessment Issues for Immigrants from the People's Republic of China - Understanding and Working with Haitian Immigrant Families - The Native American Family Circle: Roots of Resiliency - Acculturative Stress, Social Support, and Depression in Korean American Families - Clinical Impasses for African American Social Workers - Social Constructionist Inquiry in Family Therapy with Chinese Americans - Cultural Values and Domestic Violence - Cross-Cultural Considerations in Family Preservation Practice - Religion as Invisible Culture: Knowing About and Knowing With - Madness in the Family: The "Windigo" - Index - Reference Notes Included