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

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