Re-Visioning Family Therapy, Second Edition : Race, Culture, and Gender in Clinical Practice

by McGoldrick, Monica; Hardy, Kenneth V.

• ISBN13: 9781593854270
• ISBN10: 1593854277
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-07-29
• Publisher: The Guilford Press

Summary

This book has been replaced by Re-Visioning Family Therapy, Third Edition: Addressing Diversity in Clinical Practice, ISBN 978-1-4625-3193-6.

Author Biography

Monica McGoldrick, LCSW, PhD (h.c.), is Director of the Multicultural Family Institute in Highland Park, New Jersey, and Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. Her videotape of clinical work with a multicultural family around issues of loss is one of the most widely respected in the field. Several of her books have become bestselling classics, including Ethnicity and Family Therapy; The Expanded Family Life Cycle; Genograms: Assessment and Intervention; Women in Families; Living Beyond Loss: Death in the Family; and Re-Visioning Family Therapy. She is also the author of a book for the general public, You Can Go Home Again: Reconnecting with Your Family. Ms. McGoldrick has received the American Family Therapy Academy's award for Distinguished Contribution to Family Therapy Theory and Practice. An internationally known author, she speaks widely on culture, class, gender, the family life cycle, and other topics.

 

Kenneth V. Hardy, PhD, is Professor of Family Therapy at Drexel University in Philadelphia and Director of the Eikenberg Institute for Relationships in New York City. He is a former Professor of Family Therapy at Syracuse University, where he also served as the Director of Clinical Training and Research and Chairperson of the Department of Child and Family Studies. Dr. Hardy is also the former Director of the Center for Children, Families, and Trauma at the internationally renowned Ackerman Institute for the Family in New York City. He maintains a private practice in New York City, specializing in family therapy. His work has received considerable public acclaim in both the electronic and print media, with appearances on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Dateline NBC, ABC’s 20/20, and PBS.

 

 

 

 

Table of Contents

Theoretical Perspectives

Introduction: Re-Visioning Family Therapy from a Multicultural Perspective

Transnational Journeys

Migration and the Disruption of the Social Network

Social Class: Implications for Family Therapy

Spirituality, Healing, and Resilience

Race, Reality, and Relationships: Implications for Family Therapists

Understanding Families in the Context of Cultural Adaptations to Oppression

Cultural Legacies and Stories: Therapists' Experiences

Finding a Place Called "Home,"

Black Genealogy Revisited: Restorying an African American Family

The Discovery of My Multicultural Identity

Our Iranian-African American Interracial Family

Voluntary Childlessness and Motherhood: Afterthoughts

Grieving in Network and Community: Bearing Witness to the Loss of Our Son

Going Home: One Orphan's Journey from Chicago to Poland and Back

Legacies of White Privilege

Transforming a Racist Legacy

The Semitism Schism: Jewish-Palestinian Legacies in a Family Therapy Training Context

My Evolving Identity from Arab to Palestinian to Muslim

Biracial Legitimacy: Embracing Marginality

Racial Identity and Racism: Implications for Therapy

The Dynamics of a Pro-Racist Ideology: Implications for Family Therapists

Hardyand

White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences through Work in Women's Studies

Dismantling White Male Privilege within Family Therapy

Latinas in the United States: Bridging Two Worlds

Therapy with Mixed-Race Families

Implications for Clinical Practice

Working with LGBT Families

Gay and Lesbian Couples: Successful Coping with Minority Stress

Working with Immigrant and Refugee Families

A Fifth-Province Approach to Intracultural Issues in an Irish Context: Marginal Illuminations

Working with African Americans and Trauma: Lessons for Clinicians from Hurricane Katrina

Once They Come: Testimony Therapy and Healing Questions for African American Couples

Climbing Up the

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