Psychosocial Aspects
Edited Namkee G. Choi, PhD |
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"A MUCH-NEEDED ADDITION TO THE LITERATURE ON CROSS-CULTURAL SOCIAL WORK as well as the literature of the helping professions in general. The information in this book provides a more balanced, comprehensive, and multidimensional picture of the diverse populations we know as Asian American than is avaIlable elsewhere In the lIterature on human services."
"THIS BOOK REPRESENTS THE DIRECTION IN WHICH RESEARCH ON DIVERSE POPULATIONS SHOULD CONTINUE TO MOVE....A significant contribution to knowledge and research on Asian Americans in the United States. Each chapter is a snapshot into the complex, and often ignored, world of Asian Americans."
Table of Contents
Namkee G. Choi
Harry H. Kitano & Susan Nakaoka
Rowena Fong, Anne Wang
Peter Allen Lee & Yu-Wen Ying
Sandra L. Wong
Dong Pil Yoon
Yu Wen Ying, Peter A. Lee, Joanne L. Tsai, Yu J Lee, & Malisa Tsang
Jeanne L. Tsai
Pauline Agbayani-Siewert, & Alice Yick Flanagan
Shobha Srinivasan
Jennifer Lee, Annie Lei, & Stanley Sue
Kyoung Ja Hyun
Meiko Yoshihama
Dung Ngo, Thanh V Tran, Judith L Gibbons, & Joan M. Oliver
Edwina S Uehara, Paula T. Morelli, & Jennifer Abe-Kim
Paula T. Morelli, Rowena Fong, & Julie Oliviera
Ada C. Mui
Namkee G. Choi
Comments from Back Cover
"This timely book is AN IMPORT ANT RESOURCE FOR TODAY, and it will be a valuable source of reference for many years to come. Rarely does one encounter a book on Asian Americans that covers such a broad range of subjects. ...Students, practitioners, researchers, policymakers, and academics will want this book in their personal libraries."
-Rita Takahashi, PhD, Professor, San Francisco State University, California
-Hilary N Weaver, DSW, Associate Professor, School of Social Work, State University of New York at Buffalo
-Alfreda P. Iglehart, PhD, MSW, Associate Professor, UCLA, California
Background on Namkee G. Choi, MSW, PhD
Namkee G. Choi, MSW, PhD, is Professor in the Graduate School of Social Work at Portland State University. Her research interests include social policy and program analysis and gerontological social work. She has published extensively in the area of minority aging with particular emphasis on racial and gender differences in economic status, retirement patterns,living arrangements, and long-term care service utilization. Dr. Choi coauthored Long-Term Care and Ethnicity (1998, Auburn), a comprehensive research report on cultural diversity and differential informal and formal service utilization patterns among White, African American, and Hispanic frail elders. Dr. Choi has also done important work in the area of family homelessness. Her recent book, Homeless Families with Children: A Subjective Experience of Homelessness (1999, Springer), has been praised by reviewers as one of the most significant studies on homeless families as the problems of homelessness and shelter life are presented from the families' own perspectives.
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