Social Work with Latinos: A Cultural Assets Paradigm
Autor Melvin Delgadoen Limba Engleză Hardback – 30 aug 2006
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780195301182
ISBN-10: 0195301188
Pagini: 336
Ilustrații: 7 line illus.
Dimensiuni: 164 x 242 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 0195301188
Pagini: 336
Ilustrații: 7 line illus.
Dimensiuni: 164 x 242 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Descriere
Despite evidence showing Latinos to be among the fastest growing populations in the US, very few social work texts explicitly address practice with Latino individuals, families, and communities. CSWE curriculum guidelines mandate that students acquire cultural competence across their coursework, and there are several books available that focus on multicultural practice, but only one outdated book on Latinos in particular. Beginning with a comprehensive definitionand demographic map of Latinos, Latino culture, and a cultural asset paradigm, the book identifies strategies for designing culturally relevant programs and services. Chapters highlight health and social concernsincluding issues surrounding gender, religion, language, immigration, substance abuse,health conditions, etc.but more importantly, they outline a practice framework that places cultural assets at the center. The book will provide a rich paradigm for understanding perspectives on culture, access, assets, and how they intersect to inform best practices. The step-by-step framework guides students through six stages: pre-contact assessment, initial contact and asset identification, resource mapping, relationship building, intervention, and evaluation. Each stage is heavilygrounded in theoretical and socio-political considerations with particular attention to thinking critically about selecting best practices and how to sustain an evidence-based practice. Case studies, summary lessons, and key ideas make this an outstanding resource for students and professionalsalike.
Recenzii
The relevance of Delgado's book comes at a time in history, perhaps more than any time before, when we need to address Latinos in the United States with substantial nuance. It is not just the diversity of national origins, but the generations of each group and where they have set roots, as well as their economic circumstances. It is not just immigration trauma and acculturational stress, but also the separation of families through deportation. It is not just children left behind and losing parents to deportation, but the multi-generational impact on Latino families and their communities. This new edition advances Delgado's message and provides an updated and expanded volume for the contemporary social worker."
In the time period since this book's first edition, the United States, and the political, economic, and social situation of Latinos within it, has profoundly changed. To be effective, social workers require a knowledge base that includes an up-to-date investigation into the current context that Latinos are living in. . . . In this book, one of the foremost Latino experts in the field guides the reader through the demographic and cultural complexity of the Latino population, and cogently synthesizes a wide body of literature using an ethnographic approach to enliven the findings. It constructively focuses on community and cultural assets such as remittances that create substantial financial capital flows among Latinos, and aspirational desires that motivate Latino achievements as they pursue their various interpretations of the American Dream. I highly recommend it."
Social Work with Latinos is a significant and comprehensive contribution to the field. Just as the Latino community is astoundingly diverse and growing rapidly, Delgado's treatment is simultaneously nuanced and expansive. He locates the relevance of this book squarely within the diversity of the Latino community: Latinos represent dozens of countries, cultural backgrounds, and racial identities . . . In light of this diversity, Delgado suggests that social work with Latinos will challenge the profession to think differently about race, identity formation, remittances, and immigration policy . . . This book is necessarily ambitious in scope but it is grounded in praxis, a signature balance across Delgado's scholarship. As such, it is critically important for the field of social work today, both for social work students and practitioners."
Professor Delgado's expansion on his thesis on the cultural assets paradigm provides today's human service practitioner with a conceptually sound basis for advocating for social justice and equality for Latinos."
In the time period since this book's first edition, the United States, and the political, economic, and social situation of Latinos within it, has profoundly changed. To be effective, social workers require a knowledge base that includes an up-to-date investigation into the current context that Latinos are living in. . . . In this book, one of the foremost Latino experts in the field guides the reader through the demographic and cultural complexity of the Latino population, and cogently synthesizes a wide body of literature using an ethnographic approach to enliven the findings. It constructively focuses on community and cultural assets such as remittances that create substantial financial capital flows among Latinos, and aspirational desires that motivate Latino achievements as they pursue their various interpretations of the American Dream. I highly recommend it."
Social Work with Latinos is a significant and comprehensive contribution to the field. Just as the Latino community is astoundingly diverse and growing rapidly, Delgado's treatment is simultaneously nuanced and expansive. He locates the relevance of this book squarely within the diversity of the Latino community: Latinos represent dozens of countries, cultural backgrounds, and racial identities . . . In light of this diversity, Delgado suggests that social work with Latinos will challenge the profession to think differently about race, identity formation, remittances, and immigration policy . . . This book is necessarily ambitious in scope but it is grounded in praxis, a signature balance across Delgado's scholarship. As such, it is critically important for the field of social work today, both for social work students and practitioners."
Professor Delgado's expansion on his thesis on the cultural assets paradigm provides today's human service practitioner with a conceptually sound basis for advocating for social justice and equality for Latinos."
Notă biografică
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.