1. Multicultural Orientation to Child Maltreatment Work |
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Orienting Concepts |
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Ecosystemic Framework |
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Treating Clients Fairly |
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Poverty |
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Child Maltreatment |
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Working with Families |
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Research and Clinical Literature on Culture and Child Maltreatment |
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Concluding Thoughts: Remembering the Difficulty of the Material and Sacredness of our Work |
2. Working with Immigrant Families |
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Social Stressors for Immigrant Families |
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Family Life, Child Behavior, and Discipline |
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Immigrants and the Child Welfare System |
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Domestic Violence |
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Basic U.S. Immigration Definitions |
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Suggestions for Improving Cultural Competence with Immigrants |
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Concluding Thoughts |
3. Assessing Diverse Families for Child Maltreatment |
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What Constitutes a Suspicion, and What’s Culture Got to Do with It? |
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Is it Maltreatment? Is the Child at Risk? |
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Once Again: How Culture Matters |
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Assessment Instruments and Structured Decision Making |
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Concluding Thoughts |
4. Interviewing Diverse Children and Families about Maltreatment |
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Before the Interview or First Session |
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Building Rapport and Establishing Trust |
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During the Interview |
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Closure and Preparation for the Next Steps |
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Concluding Thoughts |
5. Physical Discipline and Abuse |
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Research on Group Differences |
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Corporal Punishment and Physical Abuse |
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Culture in Discipline and Abuse |
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Child-Raising Norms |
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Intervening with Families Who Use Harsh Corporal Punishment |
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Supporting Nonviolent Parenting |
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Prevention Programming |
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Concluding Thoughts |
6. Child Sexual Abuse |
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Shame in Child Sexual Abuse |
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Cultural Aspects of Shame in Child Sexual Abuse |
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Counteracting Shame |
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Concluding Thoughts |
7. Working with Interpreters in Child Maltreatment |
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When to Use an Interpreter |
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Finding an Interpreter |
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Informal Interpreters |
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Preparing Interpreters |
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Cultural Asides and Other Reasons to Pause and Interview |
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The Interpreter’s Role |
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The Interpreted Conversation |
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The Emotional Cost of Interpreting in Child Abuse Situations |
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Concluding Thoughts |
8. Child Maltreatment Prevention and Parent Education |
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Child Maltreatment Prevention |
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The Parents’ Best Interests |
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Addressing Physical Abuse: Parent Groups and Classes |
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Concluding Thoughts |
9. Improving the Cultural Competency of Your Child Maltreatment Agency or Organization |
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Why Should Agencies Change? |
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Concluding Thoughts |
A Final Wish |
References |