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

'An invaluable resource for instruction in the relationship among external dynamics like racism, sexism, classism, and heterosexism; family-of-origin systemic factors; and internal psychological perceptions like a sense of inferiority or superiority... An essential text for any university or postgraduate program seriously engaged in the education of clinicians for therapy with diverse family systems.' - Reo Leslie, Jr., DMin, LPC 'Once again Monica McGoldrick succeeds in her efforts to lead us forward in our thinking about families and family therapy with written words that stretch even the most culturally aware and sensitive therapists... I cannot think of a clinician, supervisor, educator, researcher, student, or therapist-in-training who would not find this volume useful in their practice of family therapy.' - Journal of Family Psychotherapy 'For 20 years, Ethnicity and Family Therapy has been a cornerstone for introducing students and professionals to the importance of viewing clients through a cultural lens. Undoubtedly, Re-Visioning Family Therapy will have the same influence in the profession of couple and family therapy.' - Stephanie Brooks, MSW, LCSW, LMFT

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 provides in-depth portraits of the family systems of more than 40 ethnic groups--here takes up vital cultural issues that cut across all ethnicities. Integrating theoretical exposition, case vignettes, and evocative autobiographical narratives, contributors offer concrete suggestions for improving family therapy training and developing services that minority families may experience as more relevant to their lives.