This classic text helps professionals and students understand and address cultural and racial issues in therapy with African American clients. 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 empowerment-based, multisystemic approach to helping clients mobilize cultural and personal resources for change.
The therapist scheduled the first meeting with Debbie and Wilson without David. ... She also talked with them about the fact that children in these situations often act out in the hope of bringing their parents back together again.
This classic text helps professionals and students understand and address cultural and racial issues in therapy with African American clients.
This pioneering work is the most comprehensive book on Black families in therapy to appear in the clinical literature.
Now in a significantly revised and expanded second edition, this groundbreaking work illuminates how racism, sexism, and other forms of oppression constrain the lives of diverse clients a " and family therapy itself.
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Offering both a research orientation and a practice perspective, this book should appeal to social work educators and practitioners involved in family services, health and mental health settings, and child and public welfare.
This book has been replaced by Adolescents at Risk: Home-Based Family Therapy and School-Based Intervention, ISBN 978-1-4625-3653-5.
This book offers a broader, more positive picture of African American fathers. Featuring case studies of African-descended fathers, this edited volume brings to life the achievements and challenges of being a black father in America.
Yetman, N. R., & Steele, C. H. (1975). Majority and minority: The dynamics of racial and ethnic relations. Needham Heights, MA: Allyn & Bacon. “You can't join their clubs”: Six mixed couples get together to talk about love, marriage, ...
The Strengths of Black Families