Now in a revised and updated second edition, this volume offers timely, practical guidelines for mental health professionals working with economically disadvantaged children and adolescents from African American, Asian American, Latino, and Native American backgrounds. Ian A. Canino and the late Jeanne Spurlock outline useful theoretical constructs; culturally appropriate assessment strategies; and effective, strengths-based treatment approaches. Clinicians gain much needed insight into the impact on young people of such social stressors as poverty and discrimination; the ways cultural and socioeconomic differences may come into play in assessment, diagnosis, and service delivery; and the importance of understanding family belief systems and cultural expectations about children's behavior. Featuring a wealth of clinical vignettes, the second edition has been extensively updated to include new findings from the literature, revised sections on diagnosis and treatment, and considerably expanded coverage of assessment techniques. Additional attention is also devoted to such special populations as children raised in multiracial or multicultural environments, children in the juvenile justice system, and homeless and runaway children. Contents
I. A Perspective for the Clinician
1. The Influence of Culture and Multiple Social Stressors on the Minority Child
II. The Diagnostic Challenge
2. History Taking
3. Culturally Sensitive Psychological Assessment, (Carmen Rodriguez)
4. Diagnostic Categories
III. The Treatment of Minority Children
5. Culturally Sensitive Therapeutic Interventions
6. The Clinician as Advocate "This second edition offers a unique understanding of the clinical challenges involved in diagnosing and treating children and adolescents raised in multiethnic, multiracial, and multicultural environments. Canino and Spurlock clearly depict the importance of going beyond traditional diagnostic and treatment practices when intervening with special population groups. Without question, this book offers a unique value with respect to its topic, format, and clinical utility. It will be a valuable text for general psychiatric residents, child fellows, psychology and social work trainees, and mental health clinicians at large. I look forward to using this book in both my clinical practice and teaching."
-Pedro Ruiz, MD, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Texas-- Houston Health Science Center "Culturally Diverse Children and Adolescents, Second Edition, integrates the developmental, social, and clinical literature on disenfranchised children and their families. Stimulating case vignettes illustrate key concepts, as well as preventive and therapeutic intervention strategies. An easy-to- read summary of key problems in serving diverse populations is provided."
-MaryJane Rotheram, PhD, University of California, Los Angeles "Canino and Spurlock clearly depict the importance of going beyond traditional diagnostic and treatment practices when intervening with special population groups. Without question, this book offers a unique value with respect to its topic, format, and clinical utility. It will be a valuable text for general psychiatric residents, child fellows, psychology and social work trainees, and mental health clinicians at large. I look forward to using this book in both my clinical practice and teaching."
-Pedro Ruiz, MD, University of Texas Houston Health Science Center Praise for the first edition: "This closely packed valuable book...would also be especially useful as a text in the college classroom and as a training aid for mental health workers of all kinds."
-Journal of Child and Adolescent Group Therapy "Canino and Spurlock offer concrete suggestions on how to elicit relevant history information (including cultural expectations of child development and behavior, the role of the extended family, family values, and protective factors within the family); how to use available diagnostic criteria; and how to intervene, with whom, and with which treatment strategies."
-Zero to Three "Offers a comprehensive and systematic review of relevant and current literature."
-Clinical Social Work Journal |
