Black Families in Therapy: Understanding the African American Experience

الغلاف الأمامي
Guilford Publications, 18‏/11‏/2013 - 368 من الصفحات

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.

 

المحتوى

1Overview
3
2Racism Racial Identity and Skin Color Issues
28
3Extended Family Patterns Kinship Care and Informal Adoption
52
4Role Flexibility and Boundary Confusion
73
Socialization and Relationships
86
6Separation Divorce Remarriage and Stepparenting
112
7Religion and Spirituality in African American Families
125
8Additional Important Topics in African American Communities
144
A Guide for Clinicians
250
IIISOCIOECONOMIC CLASS ISSUES AND DIVERSITY OF FAMILY STRUCTURES
269
13Poor Families and the Multisystems Model
271
14SingleParent African American Families
287
15MiddleClass African American Families
300
IVIMPLICATIONS FOR SUPERVISION TRAINING AND FUTURE RESEARCH
321
16Implications for Training and Supervision
323
17Conclusion and Implications for Future Clinical Work and Research
329

IIMAJOR TREATMENT THEORIES ISSUES AND INTERVENTIONS
175
9The Therapists Use of Self and Value Conflicts
177
10Major Family Therapy Approaches and Their Relevance to Treating African Americans
204
11The Multisystems Model
226

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نبذة عن المؤلف (2013)

Nancy Boyd-Franklin, PhD, is an African American clinical psychologist and family therapist and is a Distinguished Professor in the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Her outstanding contributions have been recognized with awards from many professional organizations, including the American Family Therapy Academy, the Association of Black Psychologists, the American Psychological Association (Divisions 45 and 43), the Association of Black Social Workers, and the American Psychiatric Association, and she has received an honorary doctorate from the Phillips Graduate Institute. Dr. Boyd-Franklin is the author or coauthor of numerous articles and books, including Adolescents at Risk: Home-Based Family Therapy and School-Based Intervention; Black Families in Therapy, Second Edition: Understanding the African American Experience; and Therapy in the Real World: Effective Treatments for Challenging Problems.

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