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Print Price: $80.99

Format:
Paperback
220 pp.
152 mm x 229 mm

ISBN-13:
9780190615796

Copyright Year:
2008

Imprint: OUP US

Cross-Cultural Practice

Social Work With Diverse Populations, Second Edition

Karen Harper-Dorton and Jim Lantz

Series : Lyceum

Cultural awareness in the helping professions is crucial to providing the best possible care. In this expanded new edition of Cross-Cultural Practice, the authors uniquely present factors common to diverse ethnic and cultural populations that are useful in building cross-cultural competence. Building on the existential concepts of Victor Frankl, the text provides a framework for helping families and individuals discover meaning and meaning opportunities in daily living.

The book is organized into chapters dedicated to specific population profiles. New chapters give an overview of key concepts used throughout the book and summarize the authors' theoretical approach toward cross-cultural practice.

Readership : Graduate and undergraduate students in social work, social welfare, human services, and related fields.

Reviews

"This updated edition builds on the first edition and retains its benefits: the distinctive existential perspective on diversity and on helping diverse groups, the use of actual case material to illustrate the existential challenges and curative factors, and the message that the authors are passionately and intelligently committed to helping social workers better serve vulnerable and oppressed groups."
--James Forte, Salisbury University
"The book integrates the themes of the eight cross-cultural factors and the four existential "treatment elements" well. The chapters have been substantially enlarged and improved, and the case studies are excellent!"
--Shirley R. Hall, New Mexico Highlands University

1. Cross-Cultural Curative Factors
2. Cross-Cultural Concerns and Competent Social Work Practice
3. Social Work Practice: Helping Cross-Culturally from
4. Hispanic American Clients
5. Traumatized Clients
6. Native American Clients
7. African American Clients
8. Vietnam Veteran Clients
9. Asian American Clients
10. Migrating and Appalachian Clients
11. Woman Clients
12. Gay, Lesbian, and Transsexual Clients
13. Elderly Clients
References
Index

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Karen Harper-Dorton (PhD, The Ohio State University; MSW, West Virginia University) is director of the Burgess Center for West Virginia Families and Communities at West Virginia University. She has published extensively in the areas of logotherapy and rural America. Professor Harper-Dorton has served as a consultant, trainer, and supervisor to a variety of social work agencies in the Midwest.

Jim Lantz (PhD, MSW, The Ohio State University) (d. 2003) was a professor and counselor educator at the Ohio State University College of Social Work. He published extensively in the areas of existential family therapy and cross-cultural social work practice. Professor Lantz was elected graduate teacher of the year by the students at the Ohio State University College of Social work eight times, and in 2000 was presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Ohio Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers.

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