Professionals working with ethnic minority children can find themselves at a loss as to how to understand and meet their needs and how to recognise and accept differences among groups. Offering practical guidelines based on sound research and practice, the book provides a focus on some of the most difficult and topical issues in this field of work. The contributors to this substantially revised edition of an important resource have updated their chapters to reflect developments in the field. Experts from a variety of disciplines, they consider the central importance for professionals of the Lawrence Enquiry, the move to include more public services in the Race Relations Act; increased awareness of institutional racism, and the specific inclusion of ethnic minority children in health improvement programmes. New chapters are included on identity work, mixed race children and their families, refugee children, and the issue of language.
Preface, Kedar Nath Dwivedi. Foreword, Professor Richard Williams, University of Glamorgan. 1. Introduction, Kedar Nath Dwivedi. 2. Culture and Personality, Kedar Nath Dwivedi. 3. Mental Health Needs of Ethnic Minority Children, Rajeev Banhatti, Northampton Child and Family Services, and Surya Bhate, The Tees and North East Yorkshire Trust. 4. Family Therapy and Ethnic Minorities, Annie Lau, North East London Mental Health Trust. 5. Children, Families and Therapists: Clinical considerations and ethnic minority cultures, Begum Maitra, Child and Family Consultation Centre, Hammersmith, and Ann Miller, Marlborough Family Service. 6. Can talking about culture be therapeutic? Tasneen Fateh, Nurum Islam, Farra Khan, Cecilia Ko, Marigold Lee, Rubia Malik, Marlborough Family Service, and Inga-Britt Krause, Tavistock and Portman Mental Health Trust. 7. What is a Positive Black Identity? Nick Banks, University of Nottingham. 8. The Emergence of Ethnicity: A tale of three cultures, John Burnham, Birmingham Children's Hospital (NWS) Trust, and Queenie Harris, Charles Burn Clinic, Birmingham. 9. Anti-racist Strategies for Educational Performance: Facilitating successful learning for all children, Gerry German, Communities Empowerment Network. 10. Mixed Race Children and Families, Nick Banks, University of Nottingham. 11. Adoption of Children from Minority Groups, Professor Harry Zeitlin, North Essex Child and Family Consultation Service. 12. Residential Care for Ethnic Minority Children, Harish Mehra, Birmingham Social Services. 13. Practical Approaches to Work with Refugee Children, Jeremy Woodcock, University of Bristol. 14. Community and Youth work with Asian Women and Girls, Radha Dwivedi, Northampton Child and Family Services. 15. A Conceptual Framework of Identity Formation in a Society of Multiple Cultures: Applying theory to practice, James Rodriquez, Family Research Consortium, Ana Marie Cauce, Department of Psychology, Seattle, and Linda Wilson, Casey Family Programs, Seattle. Bibliographie References. Index
'This book should have wide appeal to almost anybody who works with children from ethnic minorities. Overall an excellent book strongly recommended for most libraries and essential reading for anyone significantly involved in cross-cultural work.' - Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry 'I am sure that this is a book which will become required reading for many professionals who work daily with the rich variety of individuals who are collectively labelled 'ethnic minorities'... should be available to all who work with people in a professional/caring capacity.' Rapport
