Ethnicity and Family Therapy

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Monica McGoldrick, Joe Giordano, Nydia Garcia Preto
Guilford Press, Aug 18, 2005 - Psychology - 796 pages

This widely used clinical reference and text provides a wealth of knowledge on culturally sensitive practice with families and individuals from over 40 different ethnic groups. Each chapter demonstrates how ethnocultural factors may influence the assumptions of both clients and therapists, the issues people bring to the clinical context, and their resources for coping and problem solving.

 

Contents

Ethnicity and Family Therapy
1
AMERICAN INDIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER FAMILIES
41
An Examination of the Native American
55
Native Hawaiian Families
64
FAMILIES OF AFRICAN ORIGIN
77
African American Families
87
African Immigrant Families
101
British West Indian Families
117
Pakistani Families
407
An Overview
423
Armenian Families
437
Iranian Families
451
Lebanese and Syrian Families
468
Palestinian Families
487
FAMILIES OF EUROPEAN ORIGIN
501
Dutch Families
534

Haitian Families
127
African American Muslim Families
138
LATINO FAMILIES
153
Brazilian Families
166
Central American Families
178
Colombian Families
192
Cuban Families
202
Dominican Families
216
Mexican Families
229
Puerto Rican Families
242
Salvadoran Families
256
ASIAN FAMILIES
269
Cambodian Families
290
Chinese Families
302
Filipino Families
319
Indonesian Families
332
Japanese Families
339
Korean Families
349
Vietnamese Families
363
An Overview
377
Indian Hindu Families
395
French Canadian Families
545
German Families
555
Greek Families
573
Hungarian Families
586
Irish Families
595
Italian Families
616
Portuguese Families
629
Plain and Simple
641
ScotsIrish Families
654
JEWISH FAMILIES
667
Israeli Families
680
Orthodox Jewish Families
689
Russian Jewish Families
701
SLAVIC FAMILIES
711
Czech and Slovak Families
724
Polish Families
741
APPENDIX CULTURAL ASSESSMENT
757
AUTHOR INDEX
765
SUBJECT INDEX
776
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Monica McGoldrick, LCSW, PhD (h.c.), Director of the Multicultural Family Institute in Highland Park, New Jersey, is also Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey–Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. She was Visiting Professor at Fordham University School of Social Service for 12 years. Ms. McGoldrick received her MSW in 1969 from Smith College School for Social Work, which later granted her one of the few honorary doctorates awarded by the school in its 60-year history. Other awards include 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.

Joe Giordano, MSW, is a family therapist in private practice in Bronxville, New York. He was formerly Director of the American Jewish Committee's Center on Ethnicity, Behavior, and Communications, where he conducted pioneering studies on the psychological nature of ethnic identity and group behavior. The author of widely published articles on ethnicity, family, and the media, he served as host of Proud to Be Me, a PBS television program, and as producer of the audio series Growing Up in America.

Nydia Garcia Preto, LCSW, is cofounder and Clinical Director of the Multicultural Family Institute. She has served as Visiting Professor at the Rutgers Graduate School of Social Work and as Director of the Adolescent Day Hospital at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. A noted family therapist, author, teacher, and lecturer, Ms. Garcia Preto has published and presented widely on Puerto Rican and Latino families, Latinas, ethnic intermarriage, and families with adolescents. She is a highly respected trainer in the areas of cultural competence and organizational team building.

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