Re-Visioning Family Therapy, Third Edition: Addressing Diversity in Clinical Practice

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A leading text for courses that go beyond the basics of family systems theory, intervention techniques, and diversity, this influential work has now been significantly revised with 65% new material. The volume explores how family relationships--and therapy itself--are profoundly shaped by race, social class, gender, religion, sexual orientation, and other intersecting dimensions of marginalization and privilege. Chapters from leading experts guide the practitioner to challenge assumptions about family health and pathology, understand the psychosocial impact of oppression, and tap into clients' cultural resources for healing. Practical clinical strategies are interwoven with theoretical insights, case examples, training ideas, and therapists' reflections on their own cultural and family legacies.   New to This Edition *Existing chapters have been thoroughly updated and 21 chapters added, expanding the perspectives in the book.   *Reflects over a decade of theoretical and clinical advances and the growing diversity of the United States. *New sections on re-visioning clinical research, trauma and psychological homelessness, and larger systems.   Cover Half Title Page Title Page Copyright Dedication About the Editors Contributors Preface Acknowledgments Contents I. Theoretical Perspectives 1. The Power of Naming 2. Re‑Visioning Gender, Re‑Visioning Power: Equity, Accountability, and Refusing to Silo 3. Social Class, Rising Inequality, and the American Dream 4. The Sociocultural Trauma of Poverty: Theoretical and Clinical Considerations for Working with Poor Families 5. Spirituality, Suffering, and Resilience II. Sociocultural Trauma and Homelessness 6. Homelessness and the Spiritual Meaning of Home 7. Transnational Journeys 8. Climbing Up the Rough Side of the Mountain: Hope, Culture, and Therapy 9. Toward a Psychology of the Oppressed: Understanding the Invisible Wounds of Trauma III. Racial Identity 10. Native American Identity Transformation: Integrating a Naming Ceremony with Family Therapy 11. Letting My Spirits Guide Me: Multicultural and Multiracial Legacies 12. Moving toward Multiracial Legitimacy: A Personal Reflection 13. On Being a Black Dominican 14. Facing the Black Shadow: Power from the Inside Out 15. White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences through Work in Women’s Studies 16. Dismantling White Male Privilege within Family Therapy 17. The Inevitable Whiteness of Being (White): Whiteness and Intersectionality in Family Therapy Practice and Training 18. Brown in America: Living with Racial and Religious Bias IV. Cultural Legacies and Stories: Therapists’ Experiences 19. Black Genealogy Revisited: Restorying an African American Family 20. White Privilege, Pathological Shame and Guilt, and the Perversion of Morality 21. The Discovery of My Multicultural Identity 22. Going Home: One Orphan’s Journey from Chicago to Poland and Back 23. Hyperlinked Identity: A Generative Resource in a Divisive World 24. The Semitism Schism, Revisited: Jewish–Palestinian Legacies in a Family Therapy Training Context 25. No Single‑Issue Lives: Identity Transitions and Transformations across the Life Cycle V. Implications for Clinical Practice 26. Working with LGBT Families 27. Same‑Sex Couples: Successful Coping with Minority Stress 28. Working with Immigrant and Refugee Families 29. Therapy with Heterosexual Black Couples through a Racial Lens 30. A Fifth‑Province Approach to Intracultural Issues in an Irish Context: Marginal Illuminations 31. The Power of Song to Promote Healing, Hope, and Justice: Lessons from the African American Experience 32. Interracial Asian Couples: Beyond Black and White VI. Implications for Training 33. Re‑Visioning Family Therapy Training 34. Social Justice in Family Therapy Training: The Power of Personal and Family Narratives 35. Teaching about Racism and the Implications for Practice 36. A Letter to Family Therapists in the 21st Century VII. Implications of Research for Clinical Practice 37. Ways of Knowing: Cultural Bias Pitfalls to Avoid When Using Research to Inform Practice 38. Relational Healing and Organizational Change in the Time of Evidence VIII. Larger Systems Work: How to Build Bridges Across the Divide 39. Expanding Bowen’s Concept of Societal Emotional Processes through Historic Ethnography: An Anthropological Exploration of the Human Connection with the Environment 40. An Application of Bowen Family Systems Theory in Child Welfare Index