Working with Latino Youth
Culture, Development, and Context
Joan D Koss-Chioino author Luis A Vargas author
Format:Hardback
Publisher:John Wiley & Sons Inc
Published:19th May '99
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Working with Latino Youth offers counselors, teachers, social workers, therapists, and other professionals-no matter what their level of experience or cultural background-an accessible and practical guide for working effectively with Latino children and adolescents. This vital resource, which integrates development, culture, and psychological intervention, helps meet the challenge of addressing an array of culturally specific problems such as assimilation, discrimination, scholastic failure, pregnancy, substance abuse, and delinquency. The authors, Joan D. Koss-Chioino and Luis A. Vargas, present a dynamic new model for working with Latino youth that considers the individual within the context of their families, their communities, and their culture.
"At a time when America and its professionals increasingly need to be responsive to the diversity of cultures, Koss-Chioino and Vargas have authored a comprehensive overview of Latino youth, who are rich in their own diversity. This highly readable book provides a wealth of information and examples about a 'new ethnic majority' to assist practitioners in their approaches not only with Latino children and families, but also with applicability to a variety of cultures through the contextual model these authors describe."
—Michael C. Roberts, professor and director, Clinical Child Psychology Program, University of Kansas
"A medical anthropologist and clinical psychologist tell us how tomake culturally appropriate psychological interventions responsiveto the context and developmental experience of Latino youth. Aneminently practical contribution for clinicians, planners, andadministrators." --Eugene B. Brody, professor and chairman emeritusof psychiatry, University of Maryland; editor-in-chief, Journal ofNervous and Mental Disease; and secretary general, World Federationfor Mental Health
"At a time when America and its professionals increasingly need tobe responsive to the diversity of cultures, Koss-Chioino and Vargashave authored a comprehensive overview of Latino youth, who arerich in their own diversity. This highly readable book provides awealth of information and examples about a 'new ethnic majority' toassist practitioners in their approaches not only with Latinochildren and families, but also with applicability to a variety ofcultures through the contextual model these authors describe."--Michael C. Roberts, professor and director, Clinical ChildPsychology Program, University of Kansas
"This book achieves, close to perfection, the rare combination ofsolid theory, in-depth analysis, lucid insights, and clinicallyuseful procedures. Contextual interventions are the core ingredientof a truly humanistic and effective therapy." --Renato D. Alarcon,professor and vice chairman, Department Of Psychiatry andBehavioral Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine
"This is a must-read book for health professionals, administrators,and advocates working with culturally diverse youth. We will use itas a guide for our school-based programs and in our clinics."--Robert L. Hendren, director, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry,Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
ISBN: 9780787943257
Dimensions: 235mm x 158mm x 22mm
Weight: 508g
260 pages