Working With Latino Youth
Subtitle: Culture, Development, and Context
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Published: June 2, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780787943257
Subjects: Illness & addiction: social aspects; Paediatric medicine; Psychiatry; Sociology Of Medicine; Mental health; Adolescent Psychiatry; Medical; Psychology; Psychopathology - Compulsive Behavior; Mental health services; Developmental - Child; Mental Illness; Health & Fitness / Health Care Issues; Psychology & Psychiatry / Child Development; Psychology-Mental Illness; Psychology-Psychopathology - Compulsive Behavior; Psychiatry - Child & Adolescent; Hispanic American youth
First sentence: In our previous book, Working with Culture, we suggested that the experience of culturally diverse children and adolescents in psychotherapy with a therapist of the dominant culture is akin to Alice's encounter with the Red Queen in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass.
Description: Working with Latino Youth offers counselors, teachers, social workers, therapists, and other professionals - no matter what their level of experience or cultural background - an accessible and practical guide for working effectively with Latino children and adolescents.

This vital resource, which integrates development, culture, and psychological intervention, helps meet the challenge of addressing an array of culturally specific problems such as assimilation, discrimination, scholastic failure, pregnancy, substance abuse, and delinquency. The authors, Joan D. Koss-Chioino and Luis A. Vargas, present a dynamic new model for working with Latino youth that considers the individual within the context of their families, their communities, and their culture.

Step by step, Working with Latino Youth gives clinicians a road map for learning an effective collaborative approach that evaluates clients contextually, integrating contextual levels into successful intervention plans.