Foreword by Peter B. Vaughn, PhD
Preface
Section One: Micro and Macro Approaches

1. Using the Culturagram to Assess and Empower Culturally Diverse Families, Elaine P. Congress, DSW, and Winnie W. Kung, PhD
2. Family and Group Approaches with Culturally Diverse Families: A Dialogue to Increase Collaboration, Elaine P. Congress and Maxine Lynn, PhD
3. Managing Agencies for Multicultural Services, Roslyn H. Chernesky, DSW

Section Two: Culturally Diverse Families Across the Life Cycle

4. The Multicultural Triangle of the Child, the Family, and the School: Culturally Competent Approaches, Carmen Ortiz Hendricks, DSW
5. Social Work Practice with African American Adolescent Girls: A Process-Person-Context Model, Portia Adams, PhD
6. Working with Culturally Diverse Older Adults, Irene A. Gutheil, DSW, and Janna C. Heyman, PhD
7. Grandparents Raising Grandchildren from a Multicultural Perspective, Carole B. Cox, PhD

Section Three: Selected Culturally Diverse Populations

8. Clinical Practice with Immigrants and Refugees: An Ethnographic Multicultural Approach, Jessica Rosenberg, PhD, Manny J. Gonzalez, DSW, and Samuel Rosenberg, PhD
9. Working with Russian-Speaking Jewish Immigrants, Robert Chazin, DSW, and Tatyana Ushakova, MSW
10. Practice with Families Where Sexual Orientation is an Issue: Lesbian and Gay Individuals and Their Families, Gerald P. Mallon, DSW
11. Arab American Families: Assessment and Treatment, Nuha Abudabbeh, PhD
12. An Afrocentric Approach to Working with Afro-American Families, Valerie Borum, PhD
13. Hispanic Families in the United States with Deaf and Hearing-Impaired Children, Idalia Mapp, PhD

Section Four: Challenging Practice Issues

14. Working with HIV-Affected Culturally Diverse Families, Cynthia Cannon Poindexter, PhD
15. Evidence-Based Marriage and Family Treatment with Problem Drinkers: A Multi-Cultural Perspective, Meredith Hanson, DSW, and Yvette M. Sealy, PhD
16. The Impact of Ethnicity and Race on the Treatment of Mothers in Incest Families, Virginia C. Strand, DSW
17. Multicultural Social Work Practice with Immigrant Victims of Domestic Violence, Patricia Brownell, PhD, and Eun Jeong Ko, MSW
18. Suicide Attempts by Adolescent Latinas: Strategies for Prevention and Intervention, Sandra G. Turner, PhD, and Carol P. Kaplan, PhD

Section Five: Conclusion

19. Spirituality and Culturally Diverse Families: The Intersection of Culture, Religion, and Spirituality, Zulema E. Suarez, PhD, and Edith A. Lewis, PhD
20. Ethical Issues and Future Directions, Elaine P. Congress

"For professional social workers and other human service providers who wish to practice in a more culturally sensitive manner that will allow them to not only respect the diversity of clients, but...celebrate the richness that cultural, racial and ethnic diversity brings to our society...As a text it will assure that at the completion of their studies, students will begin their journey in multicultural practice paces ahead of those of us who did not benefit from such readings in our own study."
-Peter B. Vaughan, Dean, Fordham University Graduate School of Social Service, from the foreword

Elaine P. Congress, MSW, DSW, is Associate Dean and Professor at Fordham University Graduate School of Social Service in New York City. She has also served as Director of the Doctoral Program there. Dr. Congress has written extensively in the areas of cultural diversity, social work ethics, and social work education, including 3 books and over 30 professional journal articles and book chapters. She has presented on cultural diversity and social work ethics at national and international conferences in the United States, Europe, and Australia. She developed the culturagram, a tool for assessing and working with culturally diverse families. Dr. Congress serves on the United Nations (UN) Team for the International Federation of Social workers (IFSW) and is a past president of the New York City chapter of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW). Before entering academia, she was a practitioner, supervisor, and administrator in a community mental health program.

Manny J. Gonzalez, DSW, is an Assistant Professor and chair of the clinical concentration area at Fordham University Graduate School of Social Service. He has practiced in primary health care centers, teaching hospitals, school-based mental health clinics, child welfare agencies, and community mental health centers, providing clinical services to patients of various immigrant and ethnic/racial minority backgrounds. Dr. Gonzalez has published articles and chapters on mental health practice with Hispanic immigrants and refugees, Hispanics and community health outreach, urban children, and evidence-based practice. He is co-editor (together with Gladys Gonzalez-Ramos, PhD) of Mental Health Care for New Hispanic Immigrants: Innovative Approaches in Contemporary Clinical Practice, on the psychosocial treatment of new Hispanic preadolescents and the mental health outcomes of abused and neglected children. He maintains a private practice in New York City.