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This unique volume explicitly examines the contemporary status of African American males from adolescence to adulthood, while implicitly challenging how normative masculine identity and historical marginalization complicate individual and familial engagement between social work, social welfare, and African American males.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgment -- Share Social Work Practice With African Americans in Urban Environments -- Section I: Conceptualizing Urban Social Work -- Chapter 1: Urban Social Work With African Americans: Critical Perspectives, Concepts, and Theories -- Underlying Assumptions, Beliefs, and Principles -- Critical Concepts, Perspectives, and Theories -- Conceptualizing a Social Work Curriculum: Case Study -- School of Social Work Goals -- Implications -- For Further Study -- References -- Chapter 2: African American Pioneers of Urban Social Work -- Women's Club -- The Politics of Reform -- Settlement Houses -- The National Urban League -- Housing in the Cities -- Taking Care of Children and Youth -- Discussion -- Implications -- For Further Study -- Notes -- References -- Section II: Children, Youth, and Families -- Chapter 3: Child Welfare in Urban Environments -- Recent Trends in Foster Care -- Demographic Trends in Foster Care -- Demographic Trends in Maryland -- Disproportionality: Child Welfare -- Financing Child Welfare: Penetration Rates -- Trauma: Child Welfare -- Workforce Issues -- Trauma Typologies -- Trauma and Attachment Issues for Children -- Trauma and Mental Health -- Trauma and Well-Being -- Trauma: Helping the Child Welfare Professional -- Trauma-Informed Practice and Interventions -- Implications for Policy -- Implications for Social Work Education -- Implications for Practice -- For Further Study -- References -- Chapter 4: Engaging Urban African American Adolescents in Treatment -- Culturally Competent Practice With Urban Adolescents -- The Urban Adolescent -- Poverty -- Family Structure -- Community Violence -- Substance Abuse -- Engaging the African American Adolescent -- Rap Therapy -- Implications -- For Further Study -- References.

Social work education and interventions with Black African families are frequently impaired because of discrimination, racism and the structuring priorities of neoliberalism. Rooted in rich and fascinating empirical work with practitioners and educators, this urgent, scholarly and accessible book emphasises that 'Black Lives Matter'. Intent on nurturing more progressive and pluralistic practices in pedagogy and practice, the book is a timely and significant contribution seeking to remake social work approaches to issues of 'race', racism and social justice.

Written by a team of nationally recognized African American social work professionals with extensive and distinguished backgrounds of HIV/AIDS service, the book examines the crisis facing African American communities. The editors strive to convey to academics, researchers, and students the magnitude of the crisis and that individuals and organizations serving African Americans need to be able to respond to the service delivery needs this crisis brings.||The crisis is evident in the fact that by year 2000 fully 50% of all AIDS cases will be among African AmericansÑwho only constitute 12% of the

Clinical social work practice with urban African American families requires approaches that account for clients' sociocultural and sociopolitical contexts and are responsive to their particular needs and resources. A contextual model which reflects a strengths-oriented and competency-based paradigm is most pertinent for this practice. This article reviews the theoretical and research work on the strengths and issues significant for contemporary urban African American families and presents a competency-based approach (CBA) for practice. It covers six central components: 1) competence; 2) attachment; 3) process; 4) recontextualization; 5) manageability; and 6) use of self including an example of their application in clinical social work practice with one such family.

Social workers looking to provide competent practice with African American families may be more effective by using a new strengths-based approach from an intergenerational perspective. This text presents a comprehensive look at this new approach to view, assess, and provide services to multigenerational families and communities.

Undergraduate and graduate school curricula, in-service training, and practice techniques must embody understandings of cultural and personality differences