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

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 1 Half Title Page 3 Title Page 5 Copyright 6 Dedication 7 About the Editors 8 Contributors 9 Preface 12 Acknowledgments 22 Contents 25 I. Theoretical Perspectives 29 1. The Power of Naming 31 2. Re‐Visioning Gender, Re‐Visioning Power: Equity, Accountability, and Refusing to Silo 56 3. Social Class, Rising Inequality, and the American Dream 65 4. The Sociocultural Trauma of Poverty: Theoretical and Clinical Considerations for Working with Poor Families 85 5. Spirituality, Suffering, and Resilience 101 II. Sociocultural Trauma and Homelessness 119 6. Homelessness and the Spiritual Meaning of Home 121 7. Transnational Journeys 136 8. Climbing Up the Rough Side of the Mountain: Hope, Culture, and Therapy 151 9. Toward a Psychology of the Oppressed: Understanding the Invisible Wounds of Trauma 161 III. Racial Identity 177 10. Native American Identity Transformation: Integrating a Naming Ceremony with Family Therapy 179 11. Letting My Spirits Guide Me: Multicultural and Multiracial Legacies 196 12. Moving toward Multiracial Legitimacy: A Personal Reflection 204 13. On Being a Black Dominican 219 14. Facing the Black Shadow: Power from the Inside Out 228 15. White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences through Work in Women’s Studies 243 16. Dismantling White Male Privilege within Family Therapy 254 17. The Inevitable Whiteness of Being (White): Whiteness and Intersectionality in Family Therapy Practice and Training 264 18. Brown in America: Living with Racial and Religious Bias 279 IV. Cultural Legacies and Stories: Therapists’ Experiences 287 19. Black Genealogy Revisited: Restorying an African American Family 289 20. White Privilege, Pathological Shame and Guilt, and the Perversion of Morality 311 21. The Discovery of My Multicultural Identity 326 22. Going Home: One Orphan’s Journey from Chicago to Poland and Back 336 23. Hyperlinked Identity: A Generative Resource in a Divisive World 346 24. The Semitism Schism, Revisited: Jewish–Palestinian Legacies in a Family Therapy Training Context 364 25. No Single‐Issue Lives: Identity Transitions and Transformations across the Life Cycle 376 V. Implications for Clinical Practice 389 26. Working with LGBT Families 391 27. Same‐Sex Couples: Successful Coping with Minority Stress 416 28. Working with Immigrant and Refugee Families 431 29. Therapy with Heterosexual Black Couples through a Racial Lens 447 30. A Fifth‐Province Approach to Intracultural Issues in an Irish Context: Marginal Illuminations 461 31. The Power of Song to Promote Healing, Hope, and Justice: Lessons from the African American Experience 477 32. Interracial Asian Couples: Beyond Black and White 492 VI. Implications for Training 503 33. Re‐Visioning Family Therapy Training 505 34. Social Justice in Family Therapy Training: The Power of Personal and Family Narratives 524 35. Teaching about Racism and the Implications for Practice 540 36. A Letter to Family Therapists in the 21st Century 554 VII. Implications of Research for Clinical Practice 565 37. Ways of Knowing: Cultural Bias Pitfalls to Avoid When Using Research to Inform Practice 567 38. Relational Healing and Organizational Change in the Time of Evidence 581 VIII. Larger Systems Work: How to Build Bridges Across the Divide 595 39. Expanding Bowen’s Concept of Societal Emotional Processes through Historic Ethnography: An Anthropological Exploration of the Human Connection with the Environment 597 40. An Application of Bowen Family Systems Theory in Child Welfare 616 Index 625 "Subject Areas/Keywords: multiculturalism, people of color, families of color, cultural diversity, racial minority, ethnic minority, religious minority groups, underserved communities, families, psychotherapy, family systems therapy, immigrants, marital therapy, couples therapy, children, parents, spirituality, clinical practice, race, racism, ethnicity, classism, gender, sexuality, sexual orientation, sexism, feminist, feminism, intersectionality, patients, poor, working class DESCRIPTION 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"-- Provided by publisher