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Working with black children and adolescents in need

	Price: £12.95 176 pages	BAAF, 1999 ISBN 978-1-873868-71-3

This invaluable collection offers the reader practice-based suggestions of improving strategies and techniques of working with black children and young people in need. With its emphasis upon direct work, it raises important questions and provides useful recommendations in developing effective communication techniques, appropriate anti-racist strategies, and an overall understanding of "race" and culture.

All the contributors to this anthology are black and offer a wealth of expertise and experience from diverse perspectives - that of practitioner, carer, academic and "consumer". A number of themes are tackled including:

• The development of a strong ethnic identity
• Developing anti-racist and anti-discriminatory practice
• Communicating with and assessing black children
• Meeting the needs of transracially adopted black children
• Meeting educational needs
• Preparing care leavers for independence

This book will prove a great aid for social work practitioners, carers, academics, trainers and students in social work. The collection will also make a useful contribution to social work theory and practice on working with black children and adolescents.