Psychology For Social Workers: Black Perspectives

Description: This text provides an introductory assessment to aid practising and qualified social workers to: understand and counteract the impact of discrimination; work in an ethically sensitive way; and demonstrate an awareness of ways to combat both individual and institutional racism through anti-racist practice. Drawing together research material and literature on black perspectives in human development and behaviour from North America and Britain, it provides a starting point that may generate future theoretical and research questions. Among the topics covered are black perspectives in groupwork and the family, identity development and academic achievement in black children and mental health issues in relation to black people. Contents: The black perspective in psychology; forming impressions of people - a black perspective; the emergence of a black perspective in group work; the black family; the black child and identity development; educational achievement and the black child; black people and mental health issues.