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Promote culturally competent social work practice with families of many traditions!This broad-ranging book highlights the enormous importance of the family in enhancing individuals’ health and in safeguarding mental health. Families and Health offers an international scope and a multicultural frame of reference. The original research presented here includes both qualitative and quantitative studies on the role of family support in maintaining personal well-being. These empirical studies look at groups as diverse as elderly Samoans living in Hawaii, Nigerian families living in Africa, and children of all races and ethnic groups living in Florida foster care. The results are consistent acros...
Use the techniques in this book to conduct productive, successful sessions with your clients!Social Work and the Family Unit offers methods and suggestions for focusing on problems within relationships, rather than simply placing blame, in order to dispel stressful and unhealthy situations. This essential book will show you how to empower couples to understand the relationships that form the fabric of their lives, the benefits ”we” thinking, and how spirituality influences people's connections and experiences. Social Work and the Family Unit provides therapists and clients with techniques and examples for conducting more successful and productive sessions.The authors of the six sections ...
A Therapist's Guide to Growing Free provides a comprehensive outline of the issues, tasks, and goals involved in the treatment of victims and survivors. Its chapter-by-chapter breakdown of how violent relationships function and how to end them safely can help guide a traumatized woman through her therapeutic journey.
Brown is a marital and family therapist who also teaches graduate courses in family therapy at Tulane University. He writes clearly and compactly about identity and intimacy, developmental perspectives on intimacy within the family, male-female socialization, dating and courtship, sex versus intimacy, the loss of intimacy in marriage, couples in therapy, the uncoupling process, and illusions of intimacy. Accessible and instructive for both lay and professional audiences. Paper edition (926-0), $22.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR