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Meeting the needs of ethnic minority children - including refugee, black and mixed parentage children: a handbook for professionals
- Editor:
- DWIVEDI Kedar Nath
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 336p.bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
This handbook examines the central importance for professionals of the Lawrence Enquiry; the move to include more public services in the Race Relations Act; increased awareness of institutional racism; and the specific inclusion of ethnic minority children in health improvement programmes. Further contents include: mental health needs of ethnic minority children; family therapy; can talking about culture be therapeutic?; what is positive black identity?; antifascist strategy; adoption of ethnic minority children; residential care; community and youth work; refugee children.
Meeting the needs of ethnic minority children: a handbook for professionals
- Editors:
- DWIVEDI Kedar Nath, VARMA Ved Prakash
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 205p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Multidisciplinary book looking at health, education and welfare of children from black and minority ethnic communities. Includes chapters on: West Indian children and education; anti-racist strategies for educational performance; adoption of children from minority groups; residential care; health needs; psychiatric needs; and family therapy.
Groupwork with children and adolescents: a handbook
- Editor:
- DWIVEDI Kedar Nath
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 357p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Section 1 is on theoretical and practical issues. Section 2 deals with developmental perspectives, including emotional, empathy and prosocial development. Section 3 looks at tools and techniques, including activities, exercises, games, art therapy, relaxation, visualisation, drama therapy and use of interpretation. Section 4 deals with subjects and themes such as bereavement, sexual abuse, encopresis, groupwork with young offenders, and race, identity and culture. Section 5 examines contexts and settings for groupwork such as schools, residential child care, child mental health services, the youth service, and therapeutic communities.