Rivera, Felix G.
Latino/Hispanic Liaisons and Visions for Human Behavior in the Social Environment. - 1 online resource (235 pages)
Cover -- Latino/Hispanic Liaisons and Visions for Human Behavior in the Social Environment -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- 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 -- Epilogue -- Index.
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!.
9781317971603
Hispanic Americans -- Social conditions.
Electronic books.
E184.S75 L3555 2014
305.86
Latino/Hispanic Liaisons and Visions for Human Behavior in the Social Environment. - 1 online resource (235 pages)
Cover -- Latino/Hispanic Liaisons and Visions for Human Behavior in the Social Environment -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- 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 -- Epilogue -- Index.
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!.
9781317971603
Hispanic Americans -- Social conditions.
Electronic books.
E184.S75 L3555 2014
305.86