Mental health professionals working with children are often faced with a number of obstacles from determining the situation specificity of the problem behavior to ascertaining the influence of the child's developmental level. When the clients are minority children, the clinical challenge is often compounded: Clinicians must move beyond the limitations of traditional assessment, diagnostic, and treatment approaches and learn how to determine the impact of cultural differences, poverty, discrimination, and acculturation ...
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Mental health professionals working with children are often faced with a number of obstacles from determining the situation specificity of the problem behavior to ascertaining the influence of the child's developmental level. When the clients are minority children, the clinical challenge is often compounded: Clinicians must move beyond the limitations of traditional assessment, diagnostic, and treatment approaches and learn how to determine the impact of cultural differences, poverty, discrimination, and acculturation issues. Addressing each of these elements, this important new volume shows mental health service providers how to work with economically disadvantaged children and adolescents from culturally diverse backgrounds. The book concentrates on the mental health needs of primarily those African-American, Latino, Asian-American, and American Indian children who are subject to numerous social stressors and whose families represent the lower socioeconomic levels. Chapters provide useful theoretical constructs, suggest concrete ways to interpret assessments, and outline effective treatment approaches. Illustrated with numerous clinical vignettes, the book clearly describes how to elicit relevant history from the child, caretakers, family, and school officials; utilize diagnostic criteria in a culturally appropriate way; and intervene - using innovative treatment strategies. Throughout, long-standing misconceptions and myths are exposed, as readers acquire the skills needed to recognize and reinforce the strengths that often exist amid what can look like insurmountable problems. Comprehensively addressing the wide range of issues one encounters in the treatment of minority children,this book is a valuable resource for psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, and psychiatric nurses. Providing explicit, step-by-step details on the assessment and treatment of minority children Culturally Diverse Children and Adolescents also serves as an excellent text for
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NF in NF jacket. Neither remainder nor ex-lib. Hardcover with smooth black paper over boards, in brown and white child-illustrated glossy jacket, 8vo. xii + 228pp. Index, references. NF/NF. Book has prev. owner indication upper corner ffep; jacket has light curl and shallow creases off lower front and upper rear edges. Book and jacket are otherwise as new: bright, tight, sharp and unmarked.
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Good in good dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Culturally Diverse Children and Adolescents: Assessment, Diagnosis, and Treatment, by Ian A. Canino (Author), Jeanne Spurlock (Author)--HARDCOVER IN DUST JACKET CONDITION GOOD-SIGNED BY PREVIOUS OWNER... Culturally Diverse Children and Adolescents: Assessment, Diagnosis, and Treatment, by Ian A. Canino (Author), Jeanne Spurlock (Author)--HARDCOVER IN DUST JACKET CONDITION GOOD-SIGNED BY PREVIOUS OWNER- The Guilford Press; Second edition (July 26 Culturally Diverse Children and Adolescents: Assessment, Diagnosis, and Treatment, by Ian A. Canino (Author), Jeanne Spurlock (Author)--HARDCOVER IN DUST JACKET CONDITION GOOD-SIGNED BY PREVIOUS OWNER- The Guilford Press; Second edition (July 26, 2000) Language : English Hardcover : 228 pages.....Child assessment and treatment is complicated by numerous factors: developmental variables, how and where symptoms are expressed, and the different ways that parents and teachers may perceive and define problem behavior. The clinician's task is further compounded when clients are culturally diverse children and adolescents dealing with multiple social stressors. This widely used clinical resource and text guides mental health practitioners in conducting culturally competent, effective work with economically disadvantaged youngsters from African American, Asian American, Latino, and Native American backgrounds.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Second edition/first printing book is tight with no markings, light soiling to top page edge, great copy.
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