If individuals cannot adequately be understood without reference to
the family system, families themselves are comprehensible only in a
broader social context. FAMILIES AND LARGER SYSTEMS is the first
single-author book on families and larger systems designed
specifically for the practicing therapist. It offers rich
descriptions of the difficulties families and larger systems often
pose for one another; presents a detailed assessment model for
therapists; and provides a careful interviewing format as well as
directions for designing creative interventions. Imber-Black offers
a consultation model for dealing with families and larger systems
who have become embroiled with one another, and methods for longer
term work with those families who must engage with larger systems
across significant portions of their life cycle, due to illness,
handicaps, or poverty. Problems of labeling, stigma, and secrecy in
families are addressed, and an entire chapter is devoted to women's
issues in families and related systems.
Utilizing numerous case illustrations and interview excerpts, Dr,
Imber-Black first delineates the problems common to family-larger
system situations, analyzing the origins of these interactions, the
assessment model and interviewing methods used, and the design and
implementation of intervention. In the second half of her book, she
presents in-depth discussions of strategies for improving the
relationship between families and related systems. Through concrete
example and hands-on analysis, Imber-Black shows how the
misconceptions, assumptions, and subsequent labeling of family
functioning and family members give rise to stalemated situations.
FAMILIES AND LARGER SYSTEMSprovides a practical guide for all
clinicians regardless of theoretical orientation. Therapists who
wish to maintain a career in public sector settings, such as mental
health clinics, hospitals, and schools, will find in this volume
direction for effective work with families and the maintenance of
good working relationships with colleagues. Therapists in private
practice will discover that Imber-Black's model will aid their
conceptualization of cases that have involved multiple therapists
or other practitioners.
Much of the material presented will also be useful to human
services workers, both professional and paraprofessional, in
welfare, child welfare, probation, drug counseling, schools and
other institutions. The book's ecological viewpoint, which enables
such professionals to see their own position in the system, also
helps them to avoid the traps of replicating existing patterns, and
to position themselves for therapeutic change.
Finally, this book will be of interest to human service system
administrators and program planners. The case examples offer a
seldom seen view of the struggles families and multiple helpers can
have with one another, while its theoretical models can be utilized
to assess current inter-systematic functioning among larger systems
in a community, with implications for program design and burn-out
prevention.
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