Skip to main content
Search Button
Canada Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 25 results for “melvin delgado”
Skip side bar filters

  • The Death Care Industry and Urban Gun Violence

    Helping Profession Strategies for Engagement and Support

    by Melvin Delgado ...
    Series series Social Sciences
    This book provides a unique foundation upon which to view how the involvement of the death care sector offers a potential route to take in practice and research in reaching urban communities of color dealing with gun-related deaths.Gun violence in the United States is a salient national problem with virtually no day that goes by without it occurring. Where gun violence occurs, in turn, must be ... Read more

    $141.99 CAD

  • Social Work with Latinos

    Social, Economic, Political, and Cultural Perspectives

    by Melvin Delgado ...
    The focus on Latinos in the United States has generally overlooked key social-economic-political dimensions that are not only growing in importance, but may ultimately hold an important key to how well this group does in the immediate and distant future in the country. The approximate ten-year period since this text's initial publication has witnessed an increase in scholarship and new social ... Read more

    $65.99 CAD

  • Baby Boomers of Color

    Implications for Social Work Policy and Practice

    by Melvin Delgado ...
    Because researchers often treat baby boomers of color as belonging to one group, quality data on the individual status of specific racial populations is lacking, leading to insufficiently designed programs, policies, and services. The absence of data is a testament to the invisibility of baby boomers of color in society and deeply affects the practice of social work and other helping professions ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Urban Gun Violence

    Empty Lots, Green Spaces, and Other Ecologically Focused Interventions

    by Melvin Delgado ...
    Ecologically-focused interventions have taken center stage in addressing a range of social problems. This book synthesizes the latest research and theoretical advances of these approaches to offer multiple urban green revitalization strategies for combatting gun violence that is primarily impacting African-American/Black, Asian-American, and Latinx urban communities across the nation. Solutions ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Urban Public Spaces, Events, and Gun Violence

    Block Parties, Funerals, Mother's Day, and Other Community Events

    by Melvin Delgado ...
    Series series Social Sciences
    This book offers a new vision on urban gun violence that focuses on public space-centered concepts, events, and research. It builds on our existing knowledge base by viewing a "slice" of this problem through celebratory and solemn occasions and how violence at these events and spaces reflects on the state of urban gun violence. Understanding this context serves to inform us on how best to address ... Read more

    $141.99 CAD

  • The Silent Epidemic of Gun Injuries

    Challenges and Opportunities for Treating and Preventing Gun Injuries

    by Melvin Delgado ...
    Gun injuries are a social and public health phenomenon that has profound consequences on victims, their social network, and neighborhood. Deaths resulting from gun violence represent just one piece of this puzzle while injuries (visible and invisible) make up a considerable other part. Solving such a large and multi-faceted public health issue is an arduous task. The Silent Epidemic of Gun ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Latino Elders and the Twenty-First Century

    Issues and Challenges for Culturally Competent Research and Practice

    by Melvin Delgado ...
    Latino Elders and the Twenty-First Century: Issues and Challenges for Culturally Competent Research and Practice will help social workers, researchers, and organizations identify and analyze ways of meeting the demands of the increasing number of elderly Latinos. Working from conceptual frameworks, case studies, and examples, this book provides you with a demographic picture of Latino elders and ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

  • Urban Youth and Photovoice

    Visual Ethnography in Action

    by Melvin Delgado ...
    The past decade brought forth a wave of excitement and promise for researchers and practitioners interested in community practice as an approach based on social justice principles and an embrace of community participatory actions. But, effective community practice is predicated on the availability and use of assessment methods that not only capture and report on conditions, but also simultaneously ... Read more

    $53.99 CAD

  • Social Justice and the Urban Obesity Crisis

    Implications for Social Work

    by Melvin Delgado ...
    A number of economic, cultural, and contextual factors are driving urban America's obesity crisis, which can create chronic health conditions for those least able to manage them. Considering urban obesity through a social justice lens, this book is the first to help social workers and others develop targeted interventions for effective outcomes.The text dissects the problem of urban obesity in ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • They Are Rioting in Sanctuary Cities!

    Countering the Emerging Anti-Sanctuary Movement

    by Melvin Delgado ...
    While the concept of cities and places of refuge, or sanctuary cities, is as ancient as history itself, the past few years has given rapid rise to a new, related phenomenon in the U.S.: the anti-sanctuary city movement. As of 2018, over 500 U.S. municipalities and several states have adopted anti-sanctuary city policies.How do we explain the rapid rise of this movement?This book examines the ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • Alcohol Use/Abuse Among Latinos

    Issues and Examples of Culturally Competent Services

    by Melvin Delgado ...
    In Alcohol Use/Abuse Among Latinos: Issues and Examples of Culturally Competent Services, you will learn how to design and improve services for Latinos with substance abuse problems by understanding that the cultures and personal backgrounds of your clients are crucial to the counseling process. This text will also show you how these service skills apply to the individual, family, or an entire ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

  • Latinos and Alcohol Use/Abuse Revisited

    Advances and Challenges for Prevention and Treatment Programs

    by Melvin Delgado ...
    The one-of-a-kind exploration of effective alcohol prevention and treatment for Latinos-now and for the future!By the year 2020, the Latino population in the United States will increase to 60 million, making up 18 percent of all residents. Latinos and Alcohol Use/Abuse Revisited: Advances and Challenges for Prevention and Treatment Programs brings into sharp focus how present and future ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD