Culturally Competent Practice: A Framework for Understanding Diverse Groups and Justice Issues - Softcover

Lum, Doman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0534595898 ISBN 13: 9780534595890

Publisher: Brooks Cole, 2002

Synopsis

CULTURALLY COMPETENT PRACTICE, 1/e broke new ground in cultural competence by presenting a model for understanding, measuring, and evaluating cultural competence. In the 2/e, this model as well as the book's practical, experiential approach and numerous exercises continue to make it informative and accessible to students at all levels. This second edition contains new, contributed chapters about diverse populations. The book not only presents cultural differences, but also explains...

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Doman Lum is professor emeritus of social work at California State University, Sacramento. He was recently featured in CELEBRATING SOCIAL WORK: FACES AND VOICES OF FORMATIVE YEARS, a book commemorating social work and social work education. His previous texts include SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE AND PEOPLE OF COLOR: A PROCESS-STAGE APPROACH; MULTIDIMENSIONAL PRACTICE: DIVERSITY IN CONTEXT; CULTURAL COMPETENCE, PRACTICE STAGES AND CLIENT SYSTEMS: A CASE STUDY APPROACH; SOCIAL...

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Review

"Its outstanding features are: 1) its comprehensiveness in covering all aspects of cultural competence, 2) the thoroughness with which the chapters on oppressed groups are covered."

"This text is comprehensive and very easy to read. There are case examples, tools for student learning in every chapter that allow the reader to follow the author's cultural competence framework which leads into Part II on diverse groups. The text also addresses new...

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Edition details

• Publisher: Brooks Cole
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0534595898
• ISBN 13: 9780534595890
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 464