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This classic Family Therapy text continues to provide "a new and
more comprehensive way to think about human development and the
life cycle," reflecting changes in society away from orientation
toward the nuclear family, toward a more diverse and inclusive
definition of "family." This expanded view of the family includes
the impact of issues at multiple levels of the human system: the
individual, family households, the extended family, the community,
the cultural group, and the larger society. The text features a
ground-breaking integration of individual male and female
development in systemic context; our increasing racial, ethnic, and
cultural diversity; the emergence of men's movements and issues;
the growing visibility of lesbian and gay families; and the
neglected area of social class.
No matter how old we are, or how far from home, our family remains
with us - we share their looks and gestures, social values and
concept of "home". Yet we often fail to connect with family
members, and in remarkable ways our early experiences with family
are repeated with marriage partners and children. In this
revelatory book, esteemed family therapist Monica McGoldrick
explores why families behave as they do, using genograms (family
trees) to illustrate family patterns. Mapped out over a
three-generation span, repeated estrangements, alliances, even
divorces and suicides prove more than coincidental. McGoldrick uses
the genograms of famous families - including the Kennedys,
Hepburns, Beethovens, Brontes, and the family of the Marx Brothers
- to discuss the influence of birth order and sibling rivalry,
family myths and secrets, cultural differences, couple
relationships, and the pivotal role of loss. Relevant questions we
can ask ourselves appear at the end of each chapter, helping the
reader to become researcher, uncovering information previously
withheld, misunderstood, or overlooked. There is a saying, "Those
who cannot remember the past are recommended to repeat it". The
message here is positive: once we reconnect with the past,
McGoldrick tells us, we can choose our futures.
Widely used by family therapists- and by health care professionals
in general-the genogram is a graphic way of organising the mass of
information gathered during a family assessment. This visual
representation allows the practitioner to find patterns in the
family system for more targeted treatment. Now in its fourth
edition, Genograms has been fully updated by renowned therapist
Monica McGoldrick. Expanded with four-colour images throughout,
additional material explaining the use of genograms with siblings
and couples, and a thorough updating to essential concepts, this
edition provides a fascinating view into the richness of family
dynamics. Informative, comprehensive, and beautifully written and
illustrated, this book helps bring to life principles of family
system theory and systemic interviewing, as well as walk readers
through the basics of constructing a genogram, doing a genogram
interview and interpreting the results.
A companion to the celebrated text Genograms: Assessment &
Intervention, this workbook will articulate exactly how to put
genograms to use in therapy work. Issues surrounding client
engagement, mastering resistance, detriangling, dealing with
conflicts, and helping clients to repair cut-offs will all be
addressed.
A leading text for courses that go beyond the basics of family
systems theory, intervention techniques, and diversity, this
influential work has now been significantly revised with 65% new
material. The volume explores how family relationships--and therapy
itself--are profoundly shaped by race, social class, gender,
religion, sexual orientation, and other intersecting dimensions of
marginalization and privilege. Chapters from leading experts guide
the practitioner to challenge assumptions about family health and
pathology, understand the psychosocial impact of oppression, and
tap into clients' cultural resources for healing. Practical
clinical strategies are interwoven with theoretical insights, case
examples, training ideas, and therapists' reflections on their own
cultural and family legacies. New to This Edition *Existing
chapters have been thoroughly updated and 21 chapters added,
expanding the perspectives in the book. *Reflects over a decade of
theoretical and clinical advances and the growing diversity of the
United States. *New sections on re-visioning clinical research,
trauma and psychological homelessness, and larger systems.
This widely used clinical reference has now been fully revised and
expanded, providing the latest 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. Updated throughout with essential
new material, the third edition includes chapters on several
additional groups. An indispensable new appendix offers a concise
guide to weaving cultural information into assessment and
intervention planning.
The editors' clinical framework identifies variables that heighten
risk for individual, couple, or family dysfunction and describes
key processes that foster healing and growth. Chapters by leading
authorities reveal how the family response to loss affects all
members and their relationships across the life cycle and the
generations. New chapters address such topics as spirituality,
gender issues, suicide and other traumatic deaths, unacknowledged
and stigmatized losses, and resilience-based approaches to family
and community recovery from major disaster. In a completely new
section, prominent family therapists offer poignant reflections on
their own legacies of loss. Throughout Living Beyond Loss, Second
Edition, readers will find valuable therapeutic guidelines for
working with threatened loss and end-of-life dilemmas, the
immediate aftermath of traumatic loss, and long-term complications.
Case illustrations address a wide range of loss situations, show
their ripple effects, and suggest ways to address hidden losses
when other symptoms are presented. Therapists and counselors will
find their own lives and practices deeply enriched by this new
volume.
This comprehensive book, ideal as a basic text in family therapy
and women's studies, addresses the question of how women experience
family life from a variety of perspectives. It covers gender issues
in family therapy theory, practice, and training; women in context
(ethnicity and life cycle issues, marriage, motherhood, sisterhood,
women alone, lesbian couples), and such special issues as work,
addiction, and mental illness.
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