Synopses & Reviews
Review
"A timely and comprehensive source, this anthology provides a cultural lens for contextualizing reality. Amassing a stellar list of contributors, the book expands our views of families and establishes therapy as a more inclusive endeavor.
Re-Visioning Family Therapy is an essential resource for every practitioner working with multicultural populations." --Lillian Comas-Díaz, PhD, Director, Transcultural Mental Health Institute; Editor-in-chief,
Cultural Diversity and Mental Health"With her visionary energy, Monica McGoldrick brings us a rare and satisfying book that extends the meaning of family therapy, expands the consciousness of the therapist, and insists that the reader be deeply changed in some fundamental way. To pay careful attention to the compelling insights in this volume--and I suggest you do--is to take a large evolutionary leap forward." --Harriet Lerner, PhD, author of The Dance of Anger
"This book delivers more than a new vision of family therapy. The contributors give us new practices, new theories, and new theories of practice which have revolutionary implications for all psychotherapies and thus for all clients who share their lives, cultures, and problems with us. This paradigm-shifting volume documents and illuminates how culture is not only a label for the 'other,' but a coat of many colors which gives meaning, feeling, and value to all our lives, and which, once we take the measure of its profundity, will explode our common-sense notions of identity, psyche, and psychotherapy." --Virginia Goldner, PhD, Senior Faculty, Ackerman Institute for the Family
"...offers compelling perspectives on society's most divisive issues and enhances the cultural competence of new and experienced therapists alike in working with families....contributors offer concrete suggestions for improving family therapy training and developing services that minority families may experience as more relevant to their lives....recommended for family therapy students, psychotherapy, social work, and counseling." --Wisconsin Bookwatch
"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. She has conscientiously brought the work of several distinguished authors together to have us broaden and 're-view' our thinking and practice with families through a cultural lens....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. Unlike other volumes in this area there was an energizing quality in the contents of this book which activated me to think and act, rather than just passively digest information about culturally diverse families." --Journal of Family Psychotherapy
"On the whole, Re-Visioning Family Therapy is carefully edited, the chapters well written, and the messages thoughtful and thought provoking....I recommend it as reading for all mental health professionals." --Psychiatric Services
Review
'\"A timely and comprehensive source, this anthology provides a cultural lens for contextualizing reality. Amassing a stellar list of contributors, the book expands our views of families and establishes therapy as a more inclusive endeavor.
Re-Visioning Family Therapy is an essential resource for every practitioner working with multicultural populations.\" --Lillian Comas-Díaz, PhD, Director, Transcultural Mental Health Institute; Editor-in-chief,
Cultural Diversity and Mental Health\"With her visionary energy, Monica McGoldrick brings us a rare and satisfying book that extends the meaning of family therapy, expands the consciousness of the therapist, and insists that the reader be deeply changed in some fundamental way. To pay careful attention to the compelling insights in this volume--and I suggest you do--is to take a large evolutionary leap forward.\" --Harriet Lerner, PhD, author of The Dance of Anger
\"This book delivers more than a new vision of family therapy. The contributors give us new practices, new theories, and new theories of practice which have revolutionary implications for all psychotherapies and thus for all clients who share their lives, cultures, and problems with us. This paradigm-shifting volume documents and illuminates how culture is not only a label for the \'other,\' but a coat of many colors which gives meaning, feeling, and value to all our lives, and which, once we take the measure of its profundity, will explode our common-sense notions of identity, psyche, and psychotherapy.\" --Virginia Goldner, PhD, Senior Faculty, Ackerman Institute for the Family
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Review
"Reading this book was a truly invigorating experience. It captures the complex contexts of clients' and practitioners' lives, and puts forth suggestions for practice that are inclusive of all whom we serve. Resisting pathologizing explanations, the book provides a depth of knowledge for helping families draw on their strengths during difficult times. Chapters show how exclusion and marginalization contribute to the problems that families experience, and highlight clinical intervention approaches that are transformative. The second edition squarely confronts new forms of oppression arising in changing global contexts. This book will be most useful for graduate-level training in social work and other helping professions."--Sarah Maiter, MSW, PhD, School of Social Work, York University, Toronto, Canada
"This really is a terrific volume! The title aptly describes how McGoldrick, Hardy, and their contributing authors are 're-visioning' family therapy to reflect complex contemporary issues and approaches. This state-of-the-art work is a 'must have' for anyone who practices or teaches family therapy."--Beverly Greene, PhD, ABPP, Department of Psychology, St. John's University
"McGoldrick and Hardy lead a wise council of practitioners to construct a vision of family therapy that is culturally and socially grounded. Rather than portraying individual cultural groups, the text addresses nuanced processes in understanding and working with difference in ways that broaden traditional conceptualizations and practices. This text will make a wonderful contribution to graduate courses addressing family treatment in all mental health-related disciplines."--Steven R. Lopez, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Southern California
"McGoldrick and her colleagues have again pushed the boundaries of family therapy with this splendid, updated second edition. Here is a vision of family therapy that embraces the lived complexity of diversity, addressing the intersections of race, ethnicity, class, gender, national origin, religion and spirituality, and sexual orientation. The expanded section on therapists' own cultural legacies and stories will stimulate self-reflection that is critical to developing cultural competence, while increased attention to training will aid students and teachers alike in grounding this vision in practice. I highly recommend this text."--Francis G. Lu, MD, Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco
Synopsis
Now in a significantly revised and expanded second edition, this groundbreaking work illuminates how racism, sexism, and other forms of oppression constrain the lives of diverse clients--and family therapy itself. Practitioners and students gain vital tools for reevaluating prevailing conceptions of family health and pathology; tapping into clients' cultural resources; and developing more inclusive theories and therapeutic practices. From leaders in the field, the second edition features many new chapters, case examples, and specific recommendations for culturally competent assessment, treatment, and clinical training. The section in which authors reflect on their own cultural and family legacies also has been significantly expanded.
About the Author
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, ABCs 20/20, and PBS.
Table of Contents
I. Theoretical Perspectives
1. Introduction: Re-Visioning Family Therapy from a Multicultural Perspective, Monica McGoldrick and Kenneth V. Hardy
2. Transnational Journeys, Celia Jaes Falicov
3. Migration and the Disruption of the Social Network, Carlos E. Sluzki
4. Social Class: Implications for Family Therapy, Tracey A. Laszloffy
5. Spirituality, Healing, and Resilience, Froma Walsh
6. Race, Reality, and Relationships: Implications for the Re-visioning of Family Therapy, Kenneth V. Hardy
7. Understanding Families in the Context of Cultural Adaptations to Oppression, Vanessa McAdams-Mahmoud
II. Cultural Legacies and Stories: Therapists' Experiences
8. Finding a Place Called Home,” Monica McGoldrick
9. Black Genealogy Revisited: Restorying an African American Family, Elaine Pinderhughes
10. The Discovery of My Multicultural Identity, Fernando Lopez-Colón
11. Our IranianAfrican American Interracial Family, Jayne Mahboubi and Nasim Mahboubi
12. Voluntary Childlessness and Motherhood: Afterthoughts, Marlene F. Watson
13. Grieving in Network and Community: Bearing Witness to the Loss of Our Son, Jodie Kliman and David Trimble
14. Going Home: One Orphans Journey from Chicago to Poland and Back, John Folwarski
15. Legacies of White Privilege, Lisa Berndt
16. Transforming a Racist Legacy, John J. Lawless
17. The Semitism Schism: JewishPalestinian Legacies in a Family Therapy Training Context, Linda Stone Fish
18. My Evolving Identity from Arab to Palestinian to Muslim, Nuha Abudabbeh
19. Biracial Legitimacy: Embracing Marginality, MaryAnna Domokos-Cheng Ham
III. Racial Identity and Racism: Implications for Therapy
20. The Dynamics of a Pro-Racist Ideology: Implications for Family Therapists, Kenneth V. Hardy and Tracey A. Laszloffy
21. White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences through Work in Womens Studies, Peggy McIntosh
22. Dismantling White Male Privilege within Family Therapy, Ken Dolan-Del Vecchio
23. Latinas in the United States: Bridging Two Worlds, Nydia Garcia Preto
24. Therapy with Mixed-Race Families, Tracey A. Laszloffy
IV. Implications for Clinical Practice
25. Working with LGBT Families, Elijah C. Nealy
26. Gay and Lesbian Couples: Successful Coping with Minority Stress, Robert-Jay Green
27. Working with Immigrant and Refugee Families, Marsha Pravder Mirkin and Hugo Kamya
28. A Fifth-Province Approach to Intracultural Issues in an Irish Context: Marginal Illuminations, Imelda Colgan McCarthy and Nollaig OReilly Byrne
29. Working with African Americans and Trauma: Lessons for Clinicians from Hurricane Katrina, Nancy Boyd-Franklin
30. Once They Come: Testimony Therapy and Healing Questions for African American Couples, Makungu M. Akinyela
31. Climbing Up the Rough Side of the Mountain: Hope, Culture, and Therapy, Paulette Moore Hines
32. Interracial Asian Couples: Beyond Black and White, Tazuko Shibusawa
33. Working with Families Who Are Homeless, Peter Fraenkel and Chloe Carmichael
34. Coyote Returns: A Reconciliation between History and Hope, Robin LaDue
V. Implications for Training
35. Teaching White Students about Racism and Its Implications in Practice, Norma Akamatsu
36. Visionary Social Justice: Narratives of Diversity, Social Location, and Personal Compassion, Matthew R. Mock
37. Re-Visioning Training, Kenneth V. Hardy and Monica McGoldrick
38. Becoming a GEMM Therapist: Work Harder, Be Smarter, and Never Discuss Race, Kenneth V. Hardy