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The classic and critically acclaimed book Family Therapy with Ethnic Minorities, Second Edition has now been updated and revised to reflect the various demographic changes that have occurred in the lives of ethnic minority families and the implications of these changes for clinical practice. Family Therapy with Ethnic Minorities provides advanced students and practitioners with the most up-to-date examination yet of the theory, models, and techniques relevant to ethnic minority family functioning and therapy. After an introductory discussion of principles to be considered in practice with ethnic minorities, the authors apply these principles to working with specific ethnic minority groups, namely African Americans, Latinos, Asian/Pacific Americans, and First Nations People. Distinctive cultural values of each ethnic group are explored as well as specific guidelines and suggestions on culturally significant family therapy strategies and skills. Key Features: The revised text reflects advances in family therapy scholarship since the first edition thus ensuring for readers an up-to-date treatment of the topic Accents and extends current critical constructionist theories and techniques and applies them within a culturally specific perspective Pays special attention to the issues of ‘historical trauma’ (referred to as ‘soul wound’), especially in work with First Nations Peoples and African American families
Family Therapy with Ethnic Minorities: Similarities and Differences
Family Therapy with Ethnic Minorities: Similarities and Differences
Family therapists will usually have the opportunity to work with many different ethnic minorities. With the exception of ethnic culture centers or agencies that limit their services to a specific client group, most agencies and private practitioners provide family therapy to cross-cultural populations. It is not uncommon for a family therapist to provide therapy to many different ethnic minority families. The major objective of this chapter is to highlight and analyze the similarities and differences of therapy with different ethnic minority families at different therapeutic phases. Specifically, at the pretherapy phase, therapy similarities and differences pertaining to ethnic minority family structure are analyzed along with the application of system, structural, ...
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