{"id":35923,"date":"2014-02-23T19:46:49","date_gmt":"2014-02-23T19:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=35923"},"modified":"2014-10-26T12:26:45","modified_gmt":"2014-10-26T12:26:45","slug":"mixed-experiences-growing-up-mixed-race-mental-health-and-well-being","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=35923","title":{"rendered":"Mixed Experiences: Growing up mixed race &#8211; mental health and well-being"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jkp.com\/catalogue\/book\/9781909391154\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Mixed Experiences: Growing up mixed race &#8211; mental health and well-being<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jkp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jessica Kingsley Publishers<\/a><br \/>\nFebruary 2014<br \/>\n96 pages<br \/>\n210mm x 148mm \/ 8.5in x 5.5in<br \/>\nPaperback ISBN: 9781909391154<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dinah Morley<\/strong> and <strong>Cathy Street<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/shop.ncb.org.uk\/URLrewrite.asp?404;http:\/\/shop.ncb.org.uk:80\/product_p\/6300-050b10199p.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn3.volusion.com\/dplqm.bdtgp\/v\/vspfiles\/photos\/6300-050b10199P-2.jpg?1391485147\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mixed race is the fastest growing population group of children and young people in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/England\" target=\"_blank\">England<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wales\" target=\"_blank\">Wales<\/a>. The diversity of the mixed race group&#8217;s does not allow for a one-size-fits-all assessment of needs, and this is the challenge for practitioners.<\/p>\n<p>This guide offers practitioners an insight into the experiences of racism, discrimination and identity confusion that mixed race children and young people encounter. With a focus on mental health, it discusses the policy context and considers the learning from projects and local services that have targeted mixed race children, young people and families.<\/p>\n<p>It will be of value to all practitioners working with children and young people, especially those in the mental health field, and also in health more generally, early years services, social care, education, youth justice and the voluntary sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mixed Experiences: Growing up mixed race &#8211; mental health and well-being Jessica Kingsley Publishers February 2014 96 pages 210mm x 148mm \/ 8.5in x 5.5in Paperback ISBN: 9781909391154 Dinah Morley and Cathy Street Mixed race is the fastest growing population group of children and young people in England and Wales. The diversity of the mixed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,125,8,17,394,4481,10],"tags":[17015,13072,15916],"class_list":["post-35923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-socialscience","category-social-work","category-uk","tag-cathy-street","tag-dinah-morley","tag-jessica-kingsley-publishers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}