Best Practices for Social Work with Refugees and Immigrants

by Miriam Potocky-Tripodi and Miriam Potocky

Book Overview

Social work practice with refugees and immigrants requires specialized knowledge of these populations, and specialized adaptations and applications of mainstream services and interventions. Because they are often confronted with cultural, linguistic, political, and socioeconomic barriers, these groups are especially vulnerable to psychological problems. Among these problems are anxiety, depression, alienation, grief, even post-traumatic stress...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231115830
• ISBN13: 9780231115834
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 504 Pages
• Weight: 1.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher