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Developing cross-cultural competence : a guide for working with children and their families / edited by Eleanor W. Lynch and Marci J. Hanson.

Title
  1. Developing cross-cultural competence : a guide for working with children and their families / edited by Eleanor W. Lynch and Marci J. Hanson.
Published by
  1. Baltimore, Md. : Paul H. Brookes Pub. Co., c2004.

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Additional authors
  1. Lynch, Eleanor W., 1945-
  2. Hanson, Marci J.
Description
  1. xx, 518 p. : ill.; 26 cm.
Summary
  1. Provides hard-to-find information and practical advice to professionals who are working with children and families from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds. It includes facts about the influence of culture on people's beliefs, values, and behaviors; descriptions of the challenges families may have adapting to a different culture; and strategies for fostering respectful and effective interactions.
Subject
  1. Professional-Family Relations
  2. Ethnicity
  3. Cultural Characteristics
  4. Social Work
  5. Disabled Children
  6. Social work with children with disabilities > United States > Cross-cultural studies
  7. Family services > United States > Cross-cultural studies
  8. Minorities > United States
  9. Service social aux enfants handicapés > États-Unis > Études transculturelles
  10. Famille, Services à la > États-Unis > Études transculturelles
  11. Minorités > États-Unis
  12. Gehandicapten
  13. Minderheden
  14. Hulpverlening
  15. Interculturele communicatie
  16. United States
Genre/Form
  1. Cross-cultural studies
Contents
  1. I. Introduction -- Ethnic, cultural, and language diversity in service settings / Marci J. Hanson -- Conceptual framework : from culture shock to cultural learning / Eleanor W. Lynch -- Developing cross-cultural competence / Eleanor W. Lynch -- II. Cultural perspectives -- Families with Anglo-European roots / Marci J. Hanson -- Families with American Indian roots / Jennie R. Joe and Randi Suzanne Malach -- Families with African American roots / Winnie O. Willis -- Families with Latino roots / Maria E. Zuniga -- Families with Asian roots / Sam Chan and Evelyn Lee -- Families with Pilipino roots / Rosa Milagros Santos and Sam Chan -- Families with Native Hawaiian and Samoan roots / Noreen Mokuau and Pemerika Tauili'ili -- Families with Middle Eastern roots / Virginia-Shirin Sharifzadeh -- Families with South Asian roots / Namita Jacob -- Children of many songs / Eleanor W. Lynch and Marci J. Hanson -- III. Summary and implications -- Steps in the right direction : implications for service providers / Eleanor W. Lynch and Marci J. Hanson.
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 467-486) and indexes.
Processing action (note)
  1. committed to retain