Latino/Hispanic Liaisons and Visions for Human Behavior in the Social Environment

<p>Add to your knowledge of Latino/Hispanic diversity attitudes behaviors and experiences to provide more effective services!Latino-Hispanic Liaisons and Visions for Human Behavior in the Social Environment dispels pervasive historical and contemporary misconceptions and inaccuracies and highlights the diversity of Latino/Hispanic experiences to help you provide more effective services to those clients. As editors Torres and Rivera point out “Literature on Latinos/Hispanics reflects a dysfunctional and myopic cultural view in which they are often depicted in stereotypic characteristics and as a homogenous population.”In Latino-Hispanic Liaisons and Visions for Human Behavior in the Social Environment you’ll find chapters examining:</p><ul> <li> the social ecology of Mexican-American child development </li> <li> caregiver well-being among Cuban and Puerto Rican mothers of mentally retarded adults </li> <li> the adjustment process among Cuban refugee families </li> <li> one Southwestern community’s efforts to create a multiethnic neighborhood coalition against substance abuse </li> <li> a study of changes related to migration family and work in Caribbean women’s lives </li> <li> and much more!</li> </ul>