Overview

This revised and updated second edition offers practical guidelines for mental health professionals working with economically disadvantaged children and adolescents from African American, Asian American, Latino, and Native American backgrounds. Ian A. Canino and the late Jeanne Spurlock outline useful theoretical constructs; culturally appropriate assessment strategies; and effective, strengths-based treatment approaches. Clinicians should gain insight into the impact on young people of such social stressors as poverty and discrimination; the ways cultural and socioeconomic differences may come into play in assessment, diagnosis, and service delivery; and the importance of understanding family belief systems and cultural expectations about children's behaviour. Featuring a wealth of clinical vignettes, the second edition has been extensively updated to include recent findings from the literature, revised sections on diagnosis and treatment, and expanded coverage of assessment techniques. Additional attention is also devoted to such special populations as children raised in multiracial or multicultural environments, children in the juvenile justice system, and homeless and runaway children.

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This second edition offers a unique understanding of the clinical challenges involved in diagnosing and treating children and adolescents raised in multiethnic, multiracial, and multicultural environments. Canino and Spurlock clearly depict the importance of going beyond traditional diagnostic and treatment practices when intervening with special population groups. Without question, this book offers a unique value with respect to its topic, format, and clinical utility. It will be a valuable text for general psychiatric residents, child fellows, psychology and social work trainees, and mental health clinicians at large. I look forward to using this book in both my clinical practice and teaching. --Pedro Ruiz, MD, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Texas-Houston Health Science Center <br> Culturally Diverse Children and Adolescents, Second Edition, integrates the developmental, social, and clinical literature on disenfranchised children and their fami

This second edition offers a unique understanding of the clinical challenges involved in diagnosing and treating children and adolescents raised in multiethnic, multiracial, and multicultural environments. Canino and Spurlock clearly depict the importance of going beyond traditional diagnostic and treatment practices when intervening with special population groups. Without question, this book offers a unique value with respect to its topic, format, and clinical utility. It will be a valuable text for general psychiatric residents, child fellows, psychology and social work trainees, and mental health clinicians at large. I look forward to using this book in both my clinical practice and teaching. --Pedro Ruiz, MD, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Texas-Houston Health Science Center<br><br> Culturally Diverse Children and Adolescents, Second Edition , integrates the developmental, social, and clinical literature on disenfranchised children and their families. Stimulating case vignettes illustrate key concepts, as well as preventive and therapeutic intervention strategies. An easy-to-read summary of key problems in serving diverse populations is provided. --Mary Jane Rotheram, PhD, University of California, Los Angeles<br>

This second edition offers a unique understanding of the clinical challenges involved in diagnosing and treating children and adolescents raised in multiethnic, multiracial, and multicultural environments. Canino and Spurlock clearly depict the importance of going beyond traditional diagnostic and treatment practices when intervening with special population groups. Without question, this book offers a unique value with respect to its topic, format, and clinical utility. It will be a valuable text for general psychiatric residents, child fellows, psychology and social work trainees, and mental health clinicians at large. I look forward to using this book in both my clinical practice and teaching. --Pedro Ruiz, MD, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Texas-Houston Health Science Center Culturally Diverse Children and Adolescents, Second Edition, integrates the developmental, social, and clinical literature on disenfranchised children and their families. Stimulating case vignettes illustrate key concepts, as well as preventive and therapeutic intervention strategies. An easy-to-read summary of key problems in serving diverse populations is provided. --Mary Jane Rotheram, PhD, University of California, Los Angeles

This second edition offers a unique understanding of the clinical challenges involved in diagnosing and treating children and adolescents raised in multiethnic, multiracial, and multicultural environments. Canino and Spurlock clearly depict the importance of going beyond traditional diagnostic and treatment practices when intervening with special population groups. Without question, this book offers a unique value with respect to its topic, format, and clinical utility. It will be a valuable text for general psychiatric residents, child fellows, psychology and social work trainees, and mental health clinicians at large. I look forward to using this book in both my clinical practice and teaching. --Pedro Ruiz, MD, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Texas-Houston Health Science Center Culturally Diverse Children and Adolescents, Second Edition, integrates the developmental, social, and clinical literature on disenfranchised children and their families. Stimulating case vignettes illustrate key concepts, as well as preventive and therapeutic intervention strategies. An easy-to-read summary of key problems in serving diverse populations is provided. --Mary Jane Rotheram, PhD, University of California, Los Angeles

., . adds important information to the growing literature in multicultural assessment....this text is brimming with information relevant to all professionals in the mental health area. Though targeted to clinicians, the material it contains is relevant for educators and researchers doing work with children and adolescents from diverse backgrounds. Readers can use this as a guidebook to frame their work as well as a resource to lead them to salient literature in the field focusing on particular topics....It is clear that increasing our understanding of the issues contained in this text continues as a step in the right direction. -- Contemporary Psychology <br>PRAISE FOR THE PREVIOUS EDITION<br> The book does an excellent job of providing a pragmatic set of clinical guidelines for diagnosis and treatment of economically disadvantaged children and adolescents from diverse backgrounds. In addition, with over twenty pages of references to current and classical research, it serves as a convenient reference source for more information about particular ethnic subcultures. The authors' abilities to link theory and research to the behavior seen by the clinician is a major strength of this book. -- Marriage & Family Review <br>

Author Information

Ian A. Canino, MD, is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Deputy Director of Child Psychiatry Training, and Director of the Community Child Psychiatry Program at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University. He has founded a number of professional associations related to the mental health needs of culturally diverse populations and is actively involved as a lecturer and consultant to national and international organizations. The recipient of both state and federal grants to develop and implement a training program that can address the psychological and educational needs of culturally diverse children and adolescents in large urban areas, he has published a series of articles and chapters on child mental health. Jeanne Spurlock, MD, before her death in 1999, was Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at George Washington University and Howard University. Formerly, she served as Deputy Director and Director of the Office of Minority/National Affairs at the American Psychiatric Association, Visiting Scientist at the National Institute of Mental Health, and Chairperson in the Department of Psychiatry at Meharry Medical College.

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