Controversial Issues in Multiculturalism

by Diane De Anda

This new addition to the Controversial Issues series focuses on issues facing those who practice with multicultural populations. These debate-style essays feature issues such as whether programs and services in social work should be culture-specific to better meet clients' needs, whether professional social workers should support affirmative action as a means of securing equity for their clients, and whether the therapy process can be effective when the helping professional and the client are of different ethnic groups. For professionals working in the field of social work.

256 pages, Paperback

First published November 21, 1996

About the author

Diane De Anda, PhD, UCLA professor emerita, has edited four books on ethnically diverse populations and published numerous scholarly articles. She has also published shoirt stories, essays, satires, poetry, and a collection of flash fiction. She has published children's poetry, eight children's books, which have won multiple awards, and has six children's books scheduled for publication. Her bicultural background, as a third-generation Latina, is often evident in her work.