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Lisa Aronson Fontes has devoted her career to understanding the diverse families who use child welfare services. This book distills the lessons she has learned and suggests strategies to make child welfare programs, and particularly child protection services, more effective in their work with families from diverse backgrounds and cultures. Fontes's writing is concise and to the point. She uses examples to illustrate major concepts and then describes practical steps agencies and individual workers can take to maximize their effectiveness. This book would serve as a great supplementary text for introductory child welfare classes at both the BA and MSW level. --Jeffrey L. Edleson, PhD, School of Social Work, University of Minnesota <br> Well written and organized, this book provides practical ideas for making child protection services equitable for families from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds--a topic that cannot be ignored in our multicultural societies. Grounding the work inn

'Well written and organized, this book provides practical ideas for making child protection services equitable for families from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds-a topic that cannot be ignored in our multicultural societies. Grounding the work in a solid theoretical framework, Fontes sensitively addresses the various issues involved in making services and agencies culturally competent. This book is an essential read for undergraduate and graduate students in social work and related fields, as well as for practitioners and researchers.' - Sarah Maiter, Faculty of Social Work, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada 'An indispensable how-to guide to intervention and prevention for professionals and trainees in child protection services, hospitals, schools, and mental health programs...[Fontes is] fair to all those involved with the difficult and life-transforming decisions precipitated by family violence in diverse populations.' - Celia J. Falicov, Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego 'this is a thoughtful and well researched book that raises some very important questions for consideration and provides some thought provoking examples... it is worth reading and considering and the questions at the end of each chapter would be valuable for those training practitioners.' - Moira Walker, Journal of Social Work Practice

Lisa Aronson Fontes has devoted her career to understanding the diverse families who use child welfare services. This book distills the lessons she has learned and suggests strategies to make child welfare programs, and particularly child protection services, more effective in their work with families from diverse backgrounds and cultures. Fontes's writing is concise and to the point. She uses examples to illustrate major concepts and then describes practical steps agencies and individual workers can take to maximize their effectiveness. This book would serve as a great supplementary text for introductory child welfare classes at both the BA and MSW level. --Jeffrey L. Edleson, PhD, School of Social Work, University of Minnesota <br> Well written and organized, this book provides practical ideas for making child protection services equitable for families from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds--a topic that cannot be ignored in our multicultural societies. Grounding the work in a solid theoretical framework, Fontes sensitively addresses the various issues involved in making services and agencies culturally competent. This book is an essential read for undergraduate and graduate students in social work and related fields, as well as for practitioners and researchers. --Sarah Maiter, PhD, School of Social Work, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada <br> Dr. Fontes expertly interweaves the importance of using a cultural framework with practical suggestions for working with children and families. This book fills a key gap in the professional literature. Novice as well as experienced clinicians will find this book useful in helping them examine the cultural attitudes, biases, and strengths that affect their assessment, intervention, consultation, prevention, and training roles, particularly in relation to child maltreatment issues. --David A. Wolfe, PhD, Center for Addiction and Mental Health, London, Ontario, Canada <br> Highly readable and instructive, this i

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Lisa Aronson Fontes, PhD, is on the faculty of the University Without Walls at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. For more than 25 years, she has worked to make the social service, mental health, criminal justice, and medical systems more responsive to culturally diverse people. Dr. Fontes has published widely on cultural issues in child maltreatment and violence against women, cross-cultural research, and ethics. She has worked as a family, individual, and group psychotherapist, and has conducted research in Santiago, Chile, and with Puerto Ricans, African Americans, and European Americans in the United States. She also worked for three years with Somali refugees. In 2007 Dr. Fontes was awarded a Fulbright Foundation Fellowship, which she completed in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Fluent in Spanish and Portuguese, she is a frequent conference speaker and workshop facilitator. She is the author of Invisible Chains: Overcoming Coercive Control in Your Intimate Relationshipand Interviewing Clients Across Cultures: A Practitioner's Guide.

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