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

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 McGoldrickwhose earlier Ethnicity and Family Therapy provides in-depth portraits of the family systems of more than 40 ethnic groupshere takes up vital cultural issues that cut across all ethnicities. Renowned contributors offer concrete suggestions for improving family therapy training and developing services that minority families may experience as more relevant to their lives.

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.

I. Theoretical Perspectives 1. Introduction: Re-Visioning Family Therapy from a Multicultural Perspective, Monica McGoldrick and Kenneth V. Hardy2. 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 McGoldrick9. Black Genealogy Revisited: Restorying an African American Family, Elaine Pinderhughes 10. The Discovery of My Multicultural Identity, Fernando Lopez-Colón11. Our Iranian–African 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 Orphan’s 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: Jewish–Palestinian 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 HamIII. 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 Women’s 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 O’Reilly 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 McGoldrick38. Becoming a GEMM Therapist: Work Harder, Be Smarter, and Never Discuss Race, Kenneth V. Hardy

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.