Product Description

Now in a fully revised and expanded second edition, this classic text guides helping professionals and students to understand and address cultural and racial issues in therapy.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1694051 in Books
• Published on: 2003-10-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 368 pages

Review
"Nancy Boyd-Franklin has long been a leading voice on the experience of African American families. In this new edition of her groundbreaking clinical text, she expands and deepens our understanding of the diverse backgrounds and complex challenges of Black families in our society, illuminating the strengths that therapists can tap into. This is invaluable reading for students and practitioners in mental health and social service fields. - Froma Walsh, University of Chicago, USA; "Black Families in Therapy, Second Edition, will doubtless become a classic. It is well organized; written in clear, understandable language; draws on a wealth of information from diverse disciplines; and covers a number of important new topics. Among the book's outstanding features is its incisive narrative style, in which major concepts, principles and therapeutic approaches are highlighted with vivid case examples and vignettes. This is an excellent text for upper-division undergraduate and graduate courses addressing Black family life, African"

From the Back Cover
Now in a fully revised and expanded second edition, this classic text guides helping professionals and students to understand and address cultural and racial issues in therapy. Leading family therapist Nancy Boyd-Franklin explores the problems and challenges facing African American communities at different socioeconomic levels; expands major therapeutic concepts and models to be more relevant to the experiences of African American families and individuals; and, outlines an empowering, multisystemic approach to helping clients mobilize cultural and personal resources for change. Strategies for optimizing the therapeutic alliance and overcoming barriers in treatment are illustrated with extensive clinical material.

New in the Second Edition:
* discussions of important topics for African American communities today, including Afrocentricity; Rites-of-Passage programs; educational disparities, particularly as they affect boys; racial profiling; violence; substance abuse; and, HIV/AIDS
* new chapter on the impact of racism on gender socialization and relationships, including implications for couple therapy
* expanded coverage of racial identity issues in African American families and spiritual resources in therapy
* new chapter on public policy issues affecting families: welfare reform, kinship care, affirmative action, managed care, and more
* new chapter on divorce, remarriage, and stepparenting in the extended family context
* brief sections on Caribbean and biracial children and families.