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Building upon the author's integrative and interactive ideas about human services fields, this book presents an intercultural perspective of social work education, practice, and research with culturally-linguistically-relationally underprivileged minority groups in the local and global communities, to show how the synthesis of theories from postmodern social constructionism, multiculturalism, and international organization empowerment can be applied when working with Asian immigrant families. This book also demonstrates how a mutual development model of intercultural organizational-institutional collaborative partnership can be relevant when providing an International Experience for Human Services Abroad Course. Author Kui-Hee Song uses in-depth case studies in the culturally linguistic and diverse context of human services fields and in the cross-nationally interactive context of host country human services organizations and home university academic administrations. Kui-Hee Song examines the clinical change process of a Korean immigrant family that is working with Child Protective Services, seeking to resolve physical child abuse problems and generate new meanings in parent-child relationships through therapeutic conversational dialogue. As the new to this edition, a case of Ming's story is especially, the cultural differences between the Chinese immigrant client family and American medical setting where practitioner's personal beliefs were challenged. Kui-Hee Song critically examines specific steps to take in establishing intercultural service learning field placements for an experiential learning education abroad course. Song explores the significant leadership roles and responsibilities of host country human services organizations and home university administrators involved with making a new international human services experience abroad program planning, implementation, and evaluation. Specially, Song provides a profound understanding of the empowerment process of a Korean family: a conversational partnership in dialogue that invites the clients to speak their loud-hitherto unheard-voices and enhance a personal perception of competency for action and hope. Song also gives a thoughtful comprehension of a mutual empowerment process of cross-national collaborative partners: differential responsibilities but mutually shared power, vision, and goals in working relationship that allows for each collaborator to stand together in unity of transactional and transformational leadership behaviors and strengthens the sustainability of the effective international human services experience abroad program.

Table of Contents:

• Part I. What are you getting into in an intercultural world?
• Chapter 1. Introduction to multicultural international approaches in the social work profession: an intercultural perspective
• Chapter 2. Introduction to postmodernist multicultural practice with culturally and linguistically diverse groups
• Chapter 3. Culturally and linguistically diverse people within the scope of postmodernist multicultural practice
• Chapter 4. Theoretical perspectives of child abuse treatment and prevention
• Part II. Social work practice with culturally-linguistically diverse people
• Chapter 5. Korean-Americans as a culturally and linguistically diverse group
• Chapter 6. Korean-American families suffering from child abuse
• Chapter 7. Description of the case study: a Korean immigrant family
• Chapter 8. Clinical change process: child abuse narratives
• Chapter 9. Clinical change process: communicable multiple meaning-making of child abuse: illuminating cultural-linguistic meanings
• Chapter 10. Therapeutic context of professional helping as a dialogical conversation
• Chapter 11. Cultural significance of Korean "Han" transformation: lamenting entangled life as a relationship healing process
• Chapter 12. Implications for culturally-linguistically competent practice
• Part III. Social work approaches to multicultural world: case studies
• Chapter 13. A case study of a Ming Chinese immigrant Buddhist older adult
• Chapter 14. Japanese practice with kamishibai storytelling
• Part IV. Mutual development model of intercultural social work education abroad program
• Chapter 15. Current status and future challenges of South Korea's multicultural family policy: focusing on multicultural families with marriage immigrants
• Chapter 16. Multicultural social work education curriculum design and content, and multicultural professional workforce training and polity in mental health field: the United States of America

• Chapter 17. Need assessment study of international health and human services education
• Chapter 18. Planning process of intercultural human services learning abroad program
• Chapter 19. Implementation of intercultural human services learning abroad program
• Chapter 20. Sustainability of intercultural human services learning abroad program
• Chapter 21. Closing thoughts: what does the future hold as more intercultural issues of social-economic justice and human rights intersect with social work values, knowledge, and practice?
• Appendices: A. Syllabus for Social Work 498: International experience for human services: Summer 2015 ; B. Application packet.

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Author/Creator:

Song, Kui-Hee , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Multicultural and international approaches in social work practice: an intercultural perspective [by Song, K.H.]

Subjects:

Multiculturalism

Social work with minorities

Social service and race relations

Immigrant families — United States

Immigrant families — Asia

Immigrant families

United States

Asia

General Notes:

Description based on online resource (viewed September 15, 2017).
Includes bibliographical references (pages 441-469) and index.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxv, 482 pages) : illustrations

Digital Characteristics:

text file

OCLC Numbers:

960737379

Other Control Numbers:

3590335 (source: VaAlASP)
[Unknown Type]: ASP3590335/bmho