Building upon the author’s integrative and interactive ideas about human services fields, this book presents an intercultural perspective of social work education, practice, and research with culturally–linguistically-relationally underprivileged minority groups in the local and global communities, to show how the synthesis of theories from postmodern social constructionism, multiculturalism, and international organization empowerment can be applied when working with Asian immigrant families. This book also demonstrates how a mutual development model of intercultural organizational-institutional collaborative partnership can be relevant when providing an International Experience for Human Services Abroad Course. Author Kui-Hee Song uses in-depth case studies in the culturally linguistic and diverse context of human services fields and in the cross-nationally interactive context of host country human services organizations and home university academic administrations. Kui-Hee Song examines the clinical change process of a Korean immigrant family that is working with Child Protective Services, seeking to resolve physical child abuse problems and generate new meanings in parent-child relationships through therapeutic conversational dialogue. As the new to this edition, a case of Ming's story is especially, the cultural differences between the Chinese immigrant client family and American medical setting where practitioner’s personal beliefs were challenged. Kui-Hee Song critically examines specific steps to take in establishing intercultural service learning field placements for an experiential learning education abroad course. Song explores the significant leadership roles and responsibilities of host country human services organizations and home university administrators involved with making a new international human services experience abroad program planning, implementation, and evaluation. Specially, Song provides a profound understanding of the empowerment process of a Korean family: a conversational partnership in dialogue that invites the clients to speak their loud-hitherto unheard-voices and enhance a personal perception of competency for action and hope. Song also gives a thoughtful comprehension of a mutual empowerment process of cross-national collaborative partners: differential responsibilities but mutually shared power, vision, and goals in working relationship that allows for each collaborator to stand together in unity of transactional and transformational leadership behaviors and strengthens the sustainability of the effective international human services experience abroad program.

Table of Contents:
List of Tables List of Figures Preface Acknowledgments Part I—What Are You Getting Into In An Intercultural World? Chapter 1. Introduction to Multicultural Chapter 2. Introduction to Postmodernist Chapter 3. Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Chapter 4. Theoretical Perspectives of Child Part II—Social Work Practice with Culturally-Linguistically Diverse People Chapter 5. Korean-Americans as a Culturally and Chapter 6. Korean-American Families Chapter 7. Description of the Case Study: Chapter 8. Clinical Change Process: Child Abuse Chapter 9. Clinical Change Process: Communicable Chapter 10. Therapeutic Context of Professional Chapter 11. Cultural Significance of Korean “Han” Chapter 12. Implications for Culturally-Linguistically Part III—Social Work Approaches to Multicultural World: Case Studies Chapter 13. A Case Study of a Ming Chinese Chapter 14. Japanese Practice with Kamishibai Chapter 15. Current Status and Future Challenges of South Korea’s Multicultural Family Policy Chapter 16. Multicultural Social Work Education Part IV—Mutual Development Model of Intercultural Social Work Education Abroad Program Chapter 17. Need Assessment Study of International Chapter 18. Planning Process of Intercultural Chapter 19. Implementation of Intercultural Chapter 20. Sustainability of Intercultural Human Chapter 21. Closing Thoughts: What Does the Future Hold as More Intercultural Issues of Social-Economic Justice and Human Rights Intersect with Social Work Values, Knowledge, and Practice? Appendices Bibliography Index About the Author