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Annotation: This book is designed to help those learning to be counselors develop an understanding of different cultural groups, including identifying characteristics of cultures, making comparisons between the dominant culture and the culturally different groups, making comparisons among culturally different groups, and using that information to develop strategies or interventions for students or clients. Groups covered are African Americans, Amish, Native Americans, Japanese Americans, Chinese Americans, Vietnamese in the United States, Korean Americans, Mexican Americans, and Puerto Rican Americans.

Keywords: Counselors, Cultural diversity, Ethnic groups, Multicultural populations, Professional education

Annotation: Testing at a 7th grade reading level (SMOG index), this booklet with multicultural action-oriented illustrations, discusses the benefits of exercise. It explains why to exercise, how to start, and what kinds are best. It emphasizes making exercise safe and fun.

Keywords: Exercise, Multicultural populations

Annotation: This supplement provides information about serving low-income women that has been developed since the original compendium was published in 1986. Part 1 provides an annotated bibliography of recent resources on policy recommendations. Part 2 gives an update on Medicaid. Part 3 lists multimedia campaigns. Part 4 provides resource material specifically targeted to culturally diverse populations and groups that have special needs. Part 5 gives a list of selected federally supported clearinghouses. Part 6 lists Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition members at the state and national levels. The original compendium is now out of print. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

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Keywords: Health education, Low income groups, Multicultural populations, Prenatal care, Women

Annotation: This publication is an instructors' manual for a six-session staff continuing education course addressing the need for cultural diversity training in emergency care settings, tools for enhancing cross-cultural communication, effective methods for working with translators, and the need for organizational support in the provision of culturally competent care. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

Keywords: Emergency medical services, Multicultural populations

Annotation: This report discusses specific problems relevant to parenting among a high-risk Mexican American community, relates successful techniques for servicing the parenting deficits of the population, and describes the Avance Parent-Child Education Program. The Avance Parenting Education Program consists of twelve curriculum components in Spanish and English. Components include Key Concepts in Parenting, an introduction to the role of parents in meeting the child's basic needs; The Foundation for Learning, an examination of the development of competence in children; and Do Parents Make a Difference?, which emphasizes the impact of the parent as the child's first teacher in the early years of life. Other components cover safety, nutrition, infectious and non-infectious illnesses, and first aid.

Keywords: Child abuse, Hispanic Americans, Injury prevention, Multicultural populations, Parent education, Parenting, Spanish language materials

Annotation: This quarterly newsletter focuses on the activities of the Council for Exceptional Children that are relevant to multicultural populations. Included in the newsletter is information about new publications and training opportunities.

Keywords: Multicultural populations, Newsletters, Special education

Annotation: This teaching guide offers family life educators a theoretical framework and specific tools for developing curricula that are culturally relevant and appropriate for multicultural classrooms. The guide notes the significance of teaching life skills within a cultural context and provides guidelines both for educators and school district administrators. Guidelines for curricula are suggested, and four sample lessons that were developed for multicultural classrooms are included. A resource list includes citations to other curricula, journal articles, and books and pamphlets in Spanish and English.

Keywords: Adolescents, Children, Family life education, Minority groups, Multicultural populations, Resources for professionals, School health education, Spanish language materials

Annotation: This pamphlet specifically addresses the issue of hypertension in African-Americans. It talks about what high blood pressure is, what the causes are, how to know if you have it, and what can be done to treat it. It is tailored to address diet, exercise and heredity issues specific to the African-American population.

Keywords: Hypertension, Multicultural populations

Annotation: This book is the twelfth monograph in the Hispanic Research Center at Fordham University Monograph Series. The monograph discusses the meaning of culturally sensitive therapy for Hispanics and goes on to describe the background of cuento or folktale therapy. The processes by which such therapies have been investigated and evaluated are detailed and the final section of the monograph discusses the clinical usefulness of cuento therapy for emotionally troubled children. The Hispanic Research Center at Fordham University Monograph Series consists of twelve monographs published between 1978 and 1985.

Keywords: Hispanic Americans, Mental health, Multicultural populations, Puerto Ricans

Annotation: This book is based on the proceedings of a June 1979 national conference sponsored by the School of Public Health and the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Participants in the conference were social workers in leadership positions of programs related to maternal and child health services. The purpose of the conference was to explore the variables which impact delivery of health care services to diverse ethnic and cultural groups. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

Keywords: Access to health care, Barriers, Cultural barriers, Multicultural populations, Social work