Child Abuse and Culture: Working with Diverse Families

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Guilford Press, 6 ian. 2005 - 239 pagini

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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Chapter 1 Multicultural Orientation to Child Maltreatment Work
1
Chapter 2 Working with Immigrant Families Affectedby Child Maltreatment
30
Chapter 3 Assessing Diverse Families for Child Maltreatment
58
Chapter 4 Interviewing Diverse Children and Families about Maltreatment
83
Chapter 5 Physical Discipline and Abuse
108
Chapter 6 Child Sexual Abuse
135
Chapter 7 Working with Interpreters in Child Maltreatment
159
Chapter 8 Child Maltreatment Prevention and Parent Education
176
Chapter 9 Improving the Cultural Competency of Your Child Maltreatment Agency or Organization
200
A Final Wish
215
References
217
Index
231
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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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