This classic text helps professionals and students understand and address cultural and racial issues in therapy with African American clients. Leading family therapist Nancy Boyd-Franklin explores the problems and challenges facing African American communities at different socioeconomic levels, expands major therapeutic concepts and models to be more relevant to the experiences of African American families and individuals, and outlines an empowerment-based, multisystemic approach to helping clients mobilize cultural and personal resources for change.
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"Nancy Boyd-Franklin has long been a leading voice on the experience of African American families. In this new edition of her groundbreaking clinical text, she expands and deepens our understanding of the diverse backgrounds and complex challenges of Black families in our society, illuminating the strengths that therapists can tap into. This is invaluable reading for students and practitioners in mental health and social service fields."--Froma Walsh, PhD, School of Social Service Administration, Department of Psychiatry, and Center for Family Health, University of Chicago
"Black Families in Therapy, Second Edition, will doubtless become a classic. It is well organized; written in clear, understandable language; draws on a wealth of information from diverse disciplines; and covers a number of important new topics. Among the book's outstanding features is its incisive narrative style, in which major concepts, principles and therapeutic approaches are highlighted with vivid case examples and vignettes. This is an excellent text for upper-division undergraduate and graduate courses addressing Black family life, African American psychology, multiethnic family therapy, cross-cultural psychology, pastoral counseling, and related topics."--Joseph L. White, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Psychiatry, University of California, Irvine
"With the initial publication of this text, Nancy Boyd-Franklin broke new ground and set a high standard for research, teaching, and therapeutic practice with African American families. The new second edition is yet another pace-setting gift to the field. Some books are designed to fill a crucial gap on the reference shelf. Others are useful as textbooks for students in family studies, counseling, psychology, psychiatry, and even sociology. Still others function best as working manuals for practitioners. Black Families in Therapy, Second Edition, will surely serve all these functions while moving to the head of the line of readable, provocative, and insightful works in this area."--Andrew Billingsley, PhD, African American Studies Program and The Institute for Families and Society, University of South Carolina
"This impressive second edition draws on more than a decade of new research and clinical experience to enrich and expand a classic text. No one in the mental health field can afford to be without this basic primer for understanding and working with African Americans. Dr. Boyd-Franklin has always had a remarkable ability to combine theory and practical application. Written with clarity, insight, and creativity, the book is full of concrete information and case examples, while at the same time providing a strong understanding of the historical context and the evolving political realities of African American families. It also does an amazing job of dispelling persistent, pejorative myths in this essential clinical area. This book should be required reading for every psychotherapist, counselor, educator, social worker, and human service professional."--Monica McGoldrick, LCSW, PhD (h.c.), Multicultural Family Institute, Highland Park, New Jersey
"Many scholars write about characteristics of African American families, but no one else does so with the empathy and sensitivity that characterize Nancy Boyd-Franklin's second edition of Black Families in Therapy. Dr. Boyd-Franklin describes the complexities of African American families with respect to ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and skin color, to highlight but a few of the new and/or expanded themes that give substance to this edition. The case examples throughout the book are extremely useful for helping the reader to 'see' the dynamic interplay among such factors within the family system, as well as the societal contexts in which family members function. Dr. Boyd-Franklin's discussion of therapist ethnicity as an aspect of therapy addresses the often-asked question of whether only Black therapists can work effectively with Black families. Any therapist or therapist in training who intends to deliver race- and culture-sensitive services to African American families should consider this book required reading."--Janet E. Helms, PhD, Department of Counseling, Developmental, and Educational Psychology, and Institute for the Study and Promotion of Race and Culture, Boston College
"Black Families in Therapy, Second Edition, will doubtless become a classic. It is well organized; written in clear, understandable language; draws on a wealth of information from diverse disciplines; and covers a number of important new topics. Among the book's outstanding features is its incisive narrative style, in which major concepts, principles and therapeutic approaches are highlighted with vivid case examples and vignettes. This is an excellent text for upper-division undergraduate and graduate courses addressing Black family life, African American psychology, multiethnic family therapy, cross-cultural psychology, pastoral counseling, and related topics."--Joseph L. White, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Psychiatry, University of California, Irvine
"With the initial publication of this text, Nancy Boyd-Franklin broke new ground and set a high standard for research, teaching, and therapeutic practice with African American families. The new second edition is yet another pace-setting gift to the field. Some books are designed to fill a crucial gap on the reference shelf. Others are useful as textbooks for students in family studies, counseling, psychology, psychiatry, and even sociology. Still others function best as working manuals for practitioners. Black Families in Therapy, Second Edition, will surely serve all these functions while moving to the head of the line of readable, provocative, and insightful works in this area."--Andrew Billingsley, PhD, African American Studies Program and The Institute for Families and Society, University of South Carolina
"This impressive second edition draws on more than a decade of new research and clinical experience to enrich and expand a classic text. No one in the mental health field can afford to be without this basic primer for understanding and working with African Americans. Dr. Boyd-Franklin has always had a remarkable ability to combine theory and practical application. Written with clarity, insight, and creativity, the book is full of concrete information and case examples, while at the same time providing a strong understanding of the historical context and the evolving political realities of African American families. It also does an amazing job of dispelling persistent, pejorative myths in this essential clinical area. This book should be required reading for every psychotherapist, counselor, educator, social worker, and human service professional."--Monica McGoldrick, LCSW, PhD (h.c.), Multicultural Family Institute, Highland Park, New Jersey
"Many scholars write about characteristics of African American families, but no one else does so with the empathy and sensitivity that characterize Nancy Boyd-Franklin's second edition of Black Families in Therapy. Dr. Boyd-Franklin describes the complexities of African American families with respect to ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and skin color, to highlight but a few of the new and/or expanded themes that give substance to this edition. The case examples throughout the book are extremely useful for helping the reader to 'see' the dynamic interplay among such factors within the family system, as well as the societal contexts in which family members function. Dr. Boyd-Franklin's discussion of therapist ethnicity as an aspect of therapy addresses the often-asked question of whether only Black therapists can work effectively with Black families. Any therapist or therapist in training who intends to deliver race- and culture-sensitive services to African American families should consider this book required reading."--Janet E. Helms, PhD, Department of Counseling, Developmental, and Educational Psychology, and Institute for the Study and Promotion of Race and Culture, Boston College
About the Author
Nancy Boyd Franklin, PhD, is a Professor in the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology at Rutgers University. She is also an African American family therapist and the author or editor of several books. An internationally recognized lecturer and author, Dr. Boyd Franklin has published numerous articles on such issues as the treatment of African American families, extended family issues, spirituality and religion, home based family therapy, group therapy for Black women, HIV and AIDS, parent and family therapeutic support groups, the multisystems model, and community empowerment.
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This second edition of Black Families in Therapy expands the vision of the first edition by providing clinicians with an even broader understanding of the cultural and racial context of African Americans. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
healthy cultural suspicion, family therapy with one person, nonevolved grandmother, multisystems model, informal adoption process, nonblood kin, skin color issues, invisibility syndrome, family projection process, kinship care, kinship foster care, therapist explored, eco map, multisystems approach, emotional cutoff, many family therapists, family therapy field, racial socialization, biracial families, positive racial identity, other ethnic minority groups Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
African American, United States, Bureau of the Census, Nation of Islam, New York, New Jersey, Kinship Foster Care, North Carolina, South Carolina, Fanny Elison, Jim Crow, Supreme Court, West Indian, Children's Defense Fund, Jehovah's Witnesses, Jesse Jackson, Native American, Black Americans, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Connie Valentine, Margaret Long, Murray Bowen New!
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This second edition of Black Families in Therapy expands the vision of the first edition by providing clinicians with an even broader understanding of the cultural and racial context of African Americans. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
healthy cultural suspicion, family therapy with one person, nonevolved grandmother, multisystems model, informal adoption process, nonblood kin, skin color issues, invisibility syndrome, family projection process, kinship care, kinship foster care, therapist explored, eco map, multisystems approach, emotional cutoff, many family therapists, family therapy field, racial socialization, biracial families, positive racial identity, other ethnic minority groups Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
African American, United States, Bureau of the Census, Nation of Islam, New York, New Jersey, Kinship Foster Care, North Carolina, South Carolina, Fanny Elison, Jim Crow, Supreme Court, West Indian, Children's Defense Fund, Jehovah's Witnesses, Jesse Jackson, Native American, Black Americans, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Connie Valentine, Margaret Long, Murray Bowen New!
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- African Americans (Coming to America (Barron's Educational)) by David Boyle on page 211, page 266, and page 267
- Reaching Out in Family Therapy: Home-Based, School, and Community Interventions by Nancy Boyd-Franklin in Front Matter, and page 168
- Boys into Men: Raising Our African American Teenage Sons by Nancy Boyd-Franklin in Front Matter, and page 171
- The Strengths of African American Families by Robert B. Hill on page 18
- Black Rage by William Grier on page 24
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- Black Families by Harriette Pipes McAdoo on page 169
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