Social Work Practice with Culturally Diverse People - Softcover

Dhooper, Dr. Surjit Singh; Moore, Sharon E

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0761912975 ISBN 13: 9780761912972

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc, 2000

Synopsis

Social Work With Culturally Diverse People addresses the ambivalent and ambiguous changes in society, which have conditioned and constrained the willingness, ability, and efforts of social workers to provide culturally competent services to those different from mainstream society. Each major disadvantaged group is studied.

About this title

About the Author:

Surjit Singh Dhooper is Professor Emeritus at the College of Social Work, University of Kentucky. His professional experience, spread over more than 40 years, includes both practice and teaching. He did clinical as well as administrative and community organizational work in health care settings for 18 years and taught at both undergraduate and graduate levels for about 25 years. He also held academic administrative positions such as Director of Ph.D. Program and Director of Graduate Studies in the College of Social Work. He was closely associated with the work of the Human Development Institute and Sanders Brown Center on Aging of the University of Kentucky. He was awarded an endowed professorship―Constance Wilson Professor of Mental Health―in 2000, which he occupied until his retirement.

About this edition

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0761912975
• ISBN 13: 9780761912972
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 302