Black Families in Therapy

Understanding the African American Experience
2. Auflage 2003
ISBN: 978-1-57230-619-6
Verlag: Guilford Publications

Buch, Englisch, 368 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 689 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional, Professional Practice & Development, and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Boyd-Franklin, Nancy

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Sozialpsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Psychiatrie, Sozialpsychiatrie, Suchttherapie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

I. African American Families: The Cultural and Racial Context

1. Overview

2. Racism, Racial Identity, and Skin Color Issues

3. Extended Family Patterns, Kinship Care, and Informal Adoption

4. Role Flexibility and Boundary Confusion

5. African American Men and Women: Socialization and Relationships
6. Separation, Divorce, Remarriage, and Stepparenting

7. Religion and Spirituality in African American Families
8. Additional Important Topics in African American Communities
II. Major Treatment Theories, Issues, and Interventions

9. The Therapist's Use of Self and Value Conflicts

10. Major Family Therapy Approaches and Their Relevance to Treating African Americans
11. The Multisystems Model

12. Public Policy Issues: A Guide for Clinicians

III. Socioeconomic Class Issues and Diversity of Family Structures

13. Poor Families and the Multisystems Model

14. Single-Parent African American Families
15. Middle-Class African American Families
IV. Implications for Supervision, Training, and Future Research

16. Implications for Training and Supervision

17. Conclusion and Implications for Future Clinical Work and Research

Über Autor(innen)

Nancy Boyd Franklin, PhD, is a Professor in the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology at Rutgers University. She is also an African American family therapist and the author or editor of several books. An internationally recognized lecturer and author, Dr. Boyd Franklin has published numerous articles on such issues as the treatment of African American families, extended family issues, spirituality and religion, home based family therapy, group therapy for Black women, HIV and AIDS, parent and family therapeutic support groups, the multisystems model, and community empowerment.