Multicultural Perspectives In Social Work Practice with Families, 3rd Edition

Elaine P. Congress, MSW, DSW, is Associate Dean and Professor at Fordham University Graduate School of Social Service in New York City. Dr. Congress has written extensively in the areas of cultural diversity, social work ethics, and social work education. She has published six books including Social work with immigrants and refugees: Legal issues, clinical skills, and advocacy and over forty 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 Associate Professor at Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College, City University of New York. He is co-editor of Mental Health Care for New Hispanic Immigrants: Innovative Approaches in Contemporary Clinical Practice (2005). 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.