Authors: Doman Lum
ISBN-13: 9780534631987, ISBN-10: 0534631983
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Date Published: July 2004
Edition: 1st Edition
Doman Lum is professor emeritus of social work at California State University, Sacramento. He was recently featured in CELEBRATING SOCIAL WORK: FACES AND VOICES OF FORMATIVE YEARS, a book commemorating social work and social work education. His previous texts include SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE AND PEOPLE OF COLOR: A PROCESS-STAGE APPROACH; MULTIDIMENSIONAL PRACTICE: DIVERSITY IN CONTEXT; CULTURAL COMPETENCE, PRACTICE STAGES AND CLIENT SYSTEMS: A CASE STUDY APPROACH; SOCIAL WORK AND HEALTH CARE POLICY; and RESPONDING TO SUICIDAL CRISIS. He has written articles on Asian Americans, health care delivery and health maintenance organizations, culturally diverse social work practice, suicide prevention, and pastoral counseling. Dr. Lum is a consulting editor for THE JOURNAL OF ETHNIC AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY IN SOCIAL WORK and ARETE, and has been on the board of directors and the Commission on Accreditation for the Council on Social Work Education. He received the Distinguished Recent Contributions in Social Work Education award from the Council on Social Work Education in 2000. He is an ordained minister of the United Church of Christ, Northern California Conference.
Fifteen American social work educators contribute to this resource text for students and practitioners in social and human services. Following an opening chapter explaining the "Cultural Competence, Practice Stages, Client Intersectional Systems, and Case Studies Model," the remaining chapters present case studies on social work practice with various populationsFirst Nations Peoples; African Americans; Latino Americans; Asian Americans; multiracial/multiethnic clients; women of color; lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered people; immigrants and refugees; persons with disabilities; and older adults of color. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Ch. 1 | Cultural competence, practice stages, client intersectional systems, and case studies | 1 |
Ch. 2 | Social work practice with First Nations peoples | 32 |
Ch. 3 | Social work practice with African Americans | 59 |
Ch. 4 | Social work practice with Latino Americans | 88 |
Ch. 5 | Social work practice with Asian Americans | 112 |
Ch. 6 | Social work practice with multiracial/multiethnic clients | 146 |
Ch. 7 | Social work practice with women of color | 173 |
Ch. 8 | Social work practice with lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people | 203 |
Ch. 9 | Social work practice with immigrants and refugees | 230 |
Ch. 10 | Social work practice with persons with disabilities | 287 |
Ch. 11 | Social work practice with older adults of color | 320 |
Ch. 12 | Epilogue | 359 |