Culturally Diverse Children and Adolescents
Subtitle: Assessment , Diagnosis, and Treatment, Second Edition
Edition: 2 Sub edition
Publisher: The Guilford Press
Published: July 26, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9781572305830
Subjects: Adolescents; Children; Clinical Psychology; Mental health services; Multicultural studies; Paediatric medicine; Poverty; Psychiatry; Psychology; Developmental - Adolescent; Clinical Child Psychology; Cross-Cultural Psychology; Social aspects; Psychiatry - Child & Adolescent; Minority teenagers; Developmental - Child; Psychopathology - Compulsive Behavior; Psychology & Psychiatry / Clinical Psychology; Children of minorities; Child psychiatry; Mental health
First sentence: The concept of ethnicity encompasses a broad range of meanings.
Description: "This volume guides mental health practitioners in conducting culturally competent, effective work with economically disadvantaged youngsters from African American, Asian American, Latino, and Native American backgrounds.".

"Clinicians gain insight into the impact on young people of poverty and discrimination, and the importance of understanding family belief systems and cultural expectations about children's behavior. Concrete suggestions are offered on how to elicit relevant history information and whom to select as the informants; how to use available diagnostic criteria; and how to intervene, with whom, and using which treatment strategies."--BOOK JACKET.