SOWK 7338 Our Lady of the Lake Week 2 Hispanic Children and Families Discussion
Help me study for my Social Science class. I’m stuck and don’t understand.
Purpose
To synthesize the information in this week’s readings to analyze a situation from a more holistic perspective.
Instructions
Refer to this week’s readings (the Grande novel, Organista’s chapter about the four major dimensions of culturally and socially competent practice with Latinos, and the PowerPoint presentation file) and respond to the following:
- Discuss how the major dimension of “Problem assessment in social and cultural contexts” helps in understanding Juana’s situation from a critical social work perspective;
- What might you have done differently in Juana’s situation? Why?
Resources:
Organista, K.C. (2007). Latino Ethnic Identity: Psychological Impacts of Structured Inequality. In Solving Latino psychosocial and health problems: Theory, practice, and populations. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. – Chapter 5, pp. 119 -138
Grande, R. (2007). Across a Hundred Mountains: A Novel. Washington Square Press.
- pp. 1 – 53
