Social Welfare & Black Clients

Ethnicity has often been overlooked as an important factor in thinking about social welfare. Monica McGoldrick, John K. Pearce, and Joseph Giordano (1982) observe, "[Many] therapists have not appreciated the role of ethnicity in developing therapeutic models and interventions . . . [but] problems (whether physical or mental) can be neither diagnosed nor treated without some understanding of the frame of reference of the person seeking help" (p. xv). The United States encompasses individuals from almost every cultural, ethnic, and racial group on the planet, and the effective social worker must include an understanding of the context in which each client lives, in order to plan effective care.

The problem is compounded by the fact that, while blacks, for instance, constitute 13 percent of the population (Kilborn, 1999, Febru

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