Add to your knowledge of Latino/Hispanic diversity, attitudes, behaviors, and experiences to provide more effective services!Latino-Hispanic Liaisons and Visions for Human Behavior in the Social Environment dispels pervasive historical and contemporary misconceptions and inaccuracies and highlights the diversity of Latino/Hispanic experiences to help you provide more effective services to those clients. As editors Torres and Rivera point out, “Literature on Latinos/Hispanics reflects a dysfunctional and myopic cultural view in which they are often depicted in stereotypic characteristics and as a homogenous population.”In Latino-Hispanic Liaisons and Visions for Human Behavior in the Social Environment, you’ll find chapters examining:the social ecology of Mexican-American child development caregiver well-being among Cuban and Puerto Rican mothers of mentally retarded adults the adjustment process among Cuban refugee families one Southwestern community’s efforts to create a multiethnic neighborhood coalition against substance abuse a study of changes related to migration, family, and work in Caribbean women’s lives and much more!
Introduction The Social Ecology of Child Development in the Mexican American Population: Current Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives Well-Being and Family Role Strains Among Cuban American and Puerto Rican Mothers of Adults with Mental Retardation An Integral Model of Well-Being and Development and Its Implications for Helping Professions The Adultification of Refugee Children: Implications for Cross-Cultural Social Work Practice Latinos Participating in Multiethnic Coalitions to Prevent Substance Abuse: A Case Study Culturally Competent Substance Abuse Treatment with Latinos Latino Immigrants: Patterns of Survival Voices of Hispanic Caribbean Women: Migration, Family, and Work Another Kind of Rainbow Politics Creating a Latino/Hispanic Alliance: Eliminating Barriers to Coalition Building Index Reference Notes Included
