Family Development Project

Publications & Related Research Summaries

Identity and Multicultural Social Work Research: A Reflection in Process

This article is a complex, but very readable, examination of identity. It includes the author's reflection on the fact that his identity is comprised of both characteristics of the priviliged and the oppressed. The author also examines what it means to do multi-cultural social work research and how one's personal identity affects one's professional identity as a researcher. The author underscores three important aspects that are crucial to the development of doing competent cross-cultural research. These include: that collaboration is crucial, the importance of self-reflection, that research needs to be translated into practice. Lastly, the author discusses the challenges involved in doing multi-cultural social work research.

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This article gives a synopsis of the Family Development Project; a project, which is attempting to meet the mental health, needs of children involved in the Detroit Head Start Program. Included in this article are the goals of the project and the ways in which the project coordinators hope to achieve those goals. The goals include: establishing a collaboratory between the University of Michigan and Detroit Head Start Program that will work toward the development and implementation of a screening tool at all Detroit Head Start sites, include the perspective of parents of Head Start children and mental health professionals in the community through interviews and focus groups, provide the results of the analysis to members of the collaboratory for feedback on how the information can be used to improve services to children. The article also lists challenges and obstacles with which the project has had to overcome. Lastly, the article discusses what steps lie ahead in the development of the collaboratory.

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Last updated: 3/18/03

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