Child Abuse and Culture: Working With Diverse Families - Couverture souple

Fontes, Lisa Aronson

 
9781593856434: Child Abuse and Culture: Working With Diverse Families
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1593856431 ISBN 13 : 9781593856434
Editeur : Guilford Publications, 2008

Synopsis

This expertly written book provides an accessible framework for culturally competent practice with children and families in child maltreatment cases. Numerous workable strategies and concrete examples are presented to help readers address cultural concerns at each stage of the assessment and intervention process. Professionals and students learn new ways of thinking about their own cultural viewpoints as they gain critical skills for maximizing the accuracy of assessments for physical and sexual abuse; overcoming language barriers in parent and child interviews; respecting families' values and beliefs while ensuring children's safety; creating a welcoming agency environment; and more.

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À propos de l?auteur

Lisa Aronson Fontes, PhD, is on the faculty of the University Without Walls at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She has dedicated two decades to making the social service, mental health, criminal justice, and medical systems more responsive to culturally diverse people. Dr. Fontes has published widely on cultural issues in child maltreatment and violence against women, cross-cultural research, and ethics. She has worked as a family, individual, and group psychotherapist, and has conducted research in Santiago, Chile, and with Puerto Ricans, African Americans, and European Americans in the United States. She also worked for three years with Somali refugees. In 2007 Dr. Fontes was awarded a Fulbright Foundation Fellowship, which she completed in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Fluent in Spanish and Portuguese, she is a frequent conference speaker and workshop facilitator.

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Éditeur
Guilford Publications
Date d'édition
2008
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1593856431
ISBN 13 
9781593856434
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
239
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible

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9781593851309: Child Abuse And Culture: Working With Diverse Families

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  1593851308 ISBN 13 :  9781593851309
Editeur : Guilford Publications, 2005
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