Social Work Interventions: Helping People of Color

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This book provides a holistic study of the physical and mental health conditions that predominate among people of color. By presenting a thorough review of Third World cultural values, beliefs, and behaviors centering on health care, Henderson lays a firm foundation for understanding traditional non-Western cultures. Since immigrants, women, and people of color will be 85% of the net growth in the work force by the year 2000, human services professionals who assist people of color in state, county, and municipal agencies, nonprofit organizations, hospitals, and nursing homes will be challenged to provide assistance to an increasing number of culturally diverse clients.

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Provides an excellent analysis of various cultural, ethnic, and economic perspectives on illness, disability, handicap, treatment, and treatment institutions. The bibliography is extensive and thorough; the index complete and useful. This work will have value for helpers at all levels, upper-division undergraduate onward.-Choice
This book provides a holistic study of health and mental health issues faced by people of color. But more than this, it furnishes a wealth of sociocultural information to assist professional helpers and helping systems understand how culture and other characteristics such as gender, disability, and class shape how populations at risk understand illness and suffer from lack of culturally appropriate treatment and services....There is a fascinating chapter on folk health systems that contributes to the reader's understanding of how differing groups define illness and seek assistance from the natural healing networks in their own cultural reality. Of particular interest is a chapter on disability, which the author uses as an example of how transcultural practice transcends traditional definitions of culture....There is a wealth of information in this book, documented from an interdisciplinary research base.-Multicultural Review
"Provides an excellent analysis of various cultural, ethnic, and economic perspectives on illness, disability, handicap, treatment, and treatment institutions. The bibliography is extensive and thorough; the index complete and useful. This work will have value for helpers at all levels, upper-division undergraduate onward."-Choice
"This book provides a holistic study of health and mental health issues faced by people of color. But more than this, it furnishes a wealth of sociocultural information to assist professional helpers and helping systems understand how culture and other characteristics such as gender, disability, and class shape how populations at risk understand illness and suffer from lack of culturally appropriate treatment and services....There is a fascinating chapter on folk health systems that contributes to the reader's understanding of how differing groups define illness and seek assistance from the natural healing networks in their own cultural reality. Of particular interest is a chapter on disability, which the author uses as an example of how transcultural practice transcends traditional definitions of culture....There is a wealth of information in this book, documented from an interdisciplinary research base."-Multicultural Review

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GEORGE HENDERSON is Chair and Regents' Professor of the Department of Human Relations at the University of Oklahoma. He was the first distinguished African American Professor in Oklahoma. He is the author of 22 books on the subject of multicultural issues in education.