Social Work with Latinos

Social, Economic, Political, and Cultural Perspectives

Melvin Delgado (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

352 Seiten

2017 | 2nd Revised edition
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-068479-2 (ISBN)

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This book is specifically focused on preparing social workers for practice and research focused on Latinos in the United States. It provides readers with a multi-faceted and updated perspective on this community, including dispersal patterns across the United States and tapping cultural assets for development of social interventions.

The focus on Latinos in the United States has generally overlooked key social-economic-political dimensions that are not only growing in importance, but may ultimately hold an important key to how well this group does in the immediate and distant future in the country. The approximate ten-year period since this text's initial publication has witnessed an increase in scholarship and new social-political-economic developments regarding this population group. Social Work with Latinos, Second Edition captures these advances and adds to the existing body of work in this area. In particular, this revised edition provides an up-to-date demographic profile; identifies the rewards and challenges for the development of social work interventions focused on Latinos; includes a conceptual foundation from which to develop social work strategies for outreach, engagement, service-provision, and evaluation; features a series of case illustrations to highlight how cultural competency/humility can unfold to better reach this population group; grounds the Latino experience within a social, economic, cultural, and political context; and provides recommendations for social work education, research and practice.

Melvin Delgado, PhD, Professor of Social Work & Co-Director, Center on Addictions Research and Services (CARS), Boston University School of Social Work. Dr. Delgado has devoted his professional career to practice and scholarly writing on urban communities with a special focus on Latinos and other people of color.

Preface

Section 1: Setting the Context
Chapter 1: Foundation/Overview
Chapter 2: Demographics (Profile and Projections)
Chapter 3: Profile of Latinos' Health Needs
Chapter 4: Access Challenges and Barriers to Services
Chapter 5: Latino Best Practice Principles and Themes
Chapter 6: Cultural Assets Paradigm
Chapter 7: Latino Cultural Values

Section 2: A View from the Field of Practice (micro, mezzo and macro)
Chapter 8: Cultural Assets in Action
Chapter 9: Social Interventions
Chapter 10: Practice Applications and Considerations

References
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	11.08.2017
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 231 mm
Gewicht	499 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-19-068479-8 / 0190684798
ISBN-13	978-0-19-068479-2 / 9780190684792
Zustand	Neuware