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First published in 1982, this title was the first purpose-written text for social work students, administrators and practitioners designed to prepare them conceptually and practically for work in Britain's established ethnic minority communities. Emphasised throughout is the role of the social services in promoting good race relations.
List of contents
Part I: The Place of Ethnicity in Social Work 1. Introduction to the Issues
Juliet Cheetham 2. The American Ethnic Dilemma
Shirley Jenkins Part II: Establishing Need and Shaping Policy Introduction
Juliet Cheetham 3. Race Relations Policies in Social Services Departments - The Tasks and the Problems
Mary Wells 4. A Survey of Referrals from Asian Families to Four Social Services Area Offices in Bradford
E. Horn Part III: Client Groups 5. Some Priorities
Juliet Cheetham 6. Policy Dilemmas and the Adoption of Black Children
C. Bagley and L. Young 7. Finding Black Families for Black Children in Britain
Elaine Arnold 8. An American Experience in Child Care Services
Florence Kreech 9. Ethnic Minority Elderly People: Some Issues of Social Policy
Frank Glendenning 10. Social Work with Ethnic Minority Elderly People
Vivienne Coombe Part IV: Working Across Cultures Some Thoughts on Practice
Juliet Cheetham 11. Racial and Cultural Factors in a Casework Relationship
Patricia King 12. A Social Services Department and the Bengali Community: A New Response
Ian Dryden Part V: The Development of Services Objective and Dilemmas
Juliet Cheetham 13. Developing an Appropriate Service: A Local Authority's Use of Section II
Brian Waller 14. Ethnicity as a Basis for Problem Solving: A Study of the Asian Resource Centre, Birmingham
Ranjit Sondhi 15. Black Social Workers in White Departments
Barney Rooney 16. Some Approaches to Recruitment and In-Service Training for Multiracial Social Work
Shama Ahmed 17. Recruitment and Education for Work with Minorities: British and American Perspectives
Juliet Cheetham 18. The Dilemmas and Contribution of Black Social Workers
Verrol Liverpool 19. 'Home Is Where One Starts From': Reflections of an Ethnic Minority Social Worker
Stephen Parvez Rashid. Notes on Contributors. Index.
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Juliet Cheetham
Summary
First published in 1982, this title was the first purpose-written text for social work students, administrators and practitioners designed to prepare them conceptually and practically for work in Britain’s established ethnic minority communities. Emphasised throughout is the role of the social services in promoting good race relations.
