Working with Latino Youth

Culture, Development, and Context

Author: Joan D. Koss-Chioino
Secondary Author: Luis A. Vargas
ISBN: 0787943258

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. "At a time when America and its professionals increasingly need to be responsive to the diversity of cultures, Koss–Chioino and Vargas have authored a comprehensive overview of Latino youth, who are rich in their own diversity. This

Publisher: Wiley
Publish Date: 1999-06-02

Subjects: Health & Fitness / Health Care Issues, Psychology / General

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Raza Recource Centro (Location: Wall C, Shelf 3)