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ED346190 UD028674
Title: Developing Cross-Cultural Competence: A Guide for Working with Young Children and Their Families.
Author(s): Lynch, Eleanor W., Ed.; Hanson, Marci J., Ed.
Pages: 427
Publication Date: 1992
ISBN: 1-55766-086-7
Available from: Document Not Available from EDRS.
Availability: Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co., P.O. Box 10624, Baltimore, MD 21285-0624.
Language: English
Document Type: Book (010); Guides--Non-classroom (055)
Geographic Source: U.S.; Maryland
Journal Announcement: RIEOCT1992
Target Audience: Practitioners
This book
is a guide for early intervention practitioners who are working
with families from diverse cultural backgrounds, which aims to help
users to develop cross-cultural skills. The volume is organized
into three parts. Part I provides an introduction to issues surrounding
working with families from diverse backgrounds. Part II, the core
of the book, introduces several of the major cultural and ethnic
groups that make up the population of the United States, with each
group described in terms of its history, values, and beliefs with
particular emphasis on issues related to the family, child rearing,
and disability. The groups covered include the following types of
families: (1) Anglo European; (2) Native American; (3) African American;
(4) Latino; (5) Asian American; (6) Pilipino; (7) Native Hawaiian
and Pacific Islander; and (8) Middle Easterner. Part III synthesizes
the information presented in earlier sections and provides recommendations
for interventionists working in service delivery systems with the
intention of enhancing the sensitivity and awareness of service
providers to issues of variability across families in childbearing,
health care, and communications. Chapters include extensive references
and, frequently, appendices. (JB)
Descriptors: American Indians; Asian Americans; At Risk Persons;
*Cross Cultural Training; *Cultural Background; Early Intervention;
*Ethnic Groups; *Family Programs; Filipino Americans; Guides; Hispanic
Americans; *Human Services; Intercultural Communication; Pacific
Americans; Social Workers; *Young Children
Identifiers: African Americans; Europeans; Middle East
