Best Practices for Social Work with Refugees and Immigrants

by Mitra Naseh and Miriam Potocky

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 such as anxiety, depression, alienation, grief, and post-traumatic stress disorder, as well as...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231181388
• ISBN13: 9780231181389
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.1"