ERIC Number: ED304510
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1986
Pages: 145
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ISBN: ISBN-0-934584-19-2
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Minority Community Mental Health Training: Analysis of an Educational Experiment. P/AAMHRC Monograph Series, No. 4.
Wong, Paul
This monograph analyzes an experimental program that ran from 1976 to 1980 to train Pacific/Asian American social work students in community mental health. The students, who were awarded stipends, were recruited from three associate in arts programs in human services and from two universities that offered both bachelor's and master's programs in social work. Like many other minority community-based training programs in mental heath that emerged in the late 1960s and 1970s, this educational experiment was closely linked to the development of the community mental health movement and to social change in Pacific/Asian communities. Two sample surveys were conducted for the study, one of the students, and the other of the staff, council members, and field work supervisors of the center. Files and records of the center were examined and a number of individuals were interviewed intensively. Chapter 1 presents a historical survey of the development of the community mental health movement. Chapter 2 places the development of the training center in the context of social change in Pacific/Asian communities. Methodology and analysis of data are explained in Chapters 3, 4, and 5. Chapter 6, the concluding chapter, discusses the implications of this training experience. Data are presented on 22 tables and figures. Appendices provide the following: (1) the center's council by-laws; (2) intensive interview schedule; (3) survey of former stipend students; and (4) program evaluation questionnaire. Extensive references are included. (BJV)
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Asian Americans, Community Health Services, Ethnic Groups, Experimental Programs, Inservice Education, Mental Health, Multicultural Education, Postsecondary Education, Program Development, Program Evaluation, Public Health, School Surveys, Social Change, Social Workers, Student Attitudes, Surveys, Teacher Attitudes
Pacific/Asian American Mental Health Research Center, 1033 West Van Buren Street, Chicago, IL 60607 ($2.00).
Publication Type: Reports - Evaluative; Information Analyses; Tests/Questionnaires
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: Pacific/Asian American Mental Health Research Center, Chicago, IL.
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