Using famous families as case studies, this book explains how to draw, interpret and apply the genogram, a graphic way of organizing information gathered during a family assessment. It explains how the use of genograms can bring to light a family's history of divorce, suicide, or estrangement, revealing inter-generational patterns that are more ...
This widely used clinical reference has now been fully revised and expanded, providing the latest knowledge on culturally sensitive practice with families and individuals from over 40 different ethnic groups. Each chapter demonstrates how ethnocultural factors may influence the assumptions of both clients and therapists, the issues people bring to ...
This is the eagerly-awaited new edition of The Changing Family Life Cycle. Betty Carter and Monica McGoldrick are two of the best-known family therapists in the U.S. The authors have been particularly known for the introduction of feminist theory to family therapy. The new title, The Expanded Family Life Cycle, represents some of the sweeping ...
Exploring the ways that clients' lives, and family therapy itself, are constrained by larger forces of racial, cultural, sexual, and class-based inequality, this groundbreaking volume expands the boundaries of the field and works toward truly inclusive clinical practice. Editor Monica McGoldrick - whose earlier Ethnicity and Family Therapy ...
Widely used by both family therapists and family physicians, the genogram is a graphic way of organizing the mass of information gathered during a family assessment and finding patterns in the family system. Both entertaining and instructive, this book is the ideal way to introduce all those involved in family treatment to this essential ...
In this revelatory book, esteemed family therapist Monica McGoldrick explores why families behave as they do, using genograms (family trees) to illustrate family patterns. Mapped out over a three-generation span, repeated estrangements, alliances, even divorces and suicides, prove more than coincidental. McGoldrick uses the genograms of famous ...
This book will be of interest to mental health practitioners from any background or theoretical orientation. It serves as a text for advanced courses in family therapy, social work, psychotherapy, and counseling.
Mental health professionals consider the impact of death on entire family systems, the multiple generational legacies of loss, and the differential impact of a death depending on the developmental timing when it occurs, the impact of loss on family functioning and the reorganization of roles and rel
This work has rapidly achieved prominence as a standard text in social work curricula, family therapy training programs, and clinical practice. Diverse ethnic and socio-economic lifestyles are examined through shared developmental stages, offering student and therapist alike new insights on family problems and ways of approaching and alleviating ...
Designed as a basic text in family therapy and women's studies, this book addresses the question of how women experience family life from a variety of perspectives. It covers gender issues in family therapy and examines women in the context of marriage, motherhood, lesbian lifestyles and more.
This is the groundbreaking new text for culturally competent social work practice. In "Multicultural Social Work Practice", author Derald Wing Sue, one of the most prominent and respected pioneers in diversity research and practice, explores and synthesizes the important theoretical, political, and philosophical concepts related to cultural ...
Explores the ways psychotherapy services for women are influenced by the larger therapy system and the sociopolitical context. Examines factors affecting women's mental health, demonstrates the inadequacies of traditional psychotherapeutic assumptions, and offers new approaches for addressing women
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