With eleven selections designed to reinforce the goal of empowering clients to take charge of their lives, this edited volume serves a two-fold purpose. It extends the small but growing body of strength-oriented literature to include African-American families and it serves as a natural extension of current texts on African-American families to provide social workers and the education community with a broader framework for understanding the needs of Black families.Offering both a research orientation and a practice perspective, this book should appeal to social work educators and practitioners involved in family services, health and mental health settings, and child and public welfare.
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"Each of the chapters is well written. They represent many black scholars and contain significant value in and of themselves.... A great resource for family practitioners and clinicians." -- Journal of Marriage & the Family
"The best of its kind. Offers a clear application of knowledge for practice and covers a critical number of practitioner/client concerns. Thank you for bringing this invaluable resource to the classroom." -- Bernadette Jeffrey Fletcher , University of Pittsburgh
"The perspective of this book creates a healthy lens through which to examine the Black family. It is a powerful articulation of multiple situations in which Black families use their emotional, interpersonal, and spiritual strengths to resiliently cope with problems and social injustices. It calls for providers to join with Black families in their journey to live fulfilling lives by connecting with their strengths, hopes, beliefs, and natural helping networks. The reader gains a deeper appreciation of the self-help strategies utilized by the Black family to cope with multiple social problems and social pathologies while maintaining a sense of hope, dignity, connectedness with the family, spiritual beliefs and a historical legacy." -- Roger J. Sherwood , Hunter College School of Social Work
"The strengths of the networks that flow within and beyond the family give focus to the essays collected in this volume." -- Journal of Social Work Education
"This is a highly readable book. Its uplifting and positive message will be appreciated along with the many case examples and strategies for change. Students and professionals who provide services to Black families will be challenged to think in new and positive ways about Black family life. Sadye Logan emphasizes the basic humanity of both family members and professionals. Her approach is to build nurturing environments and enhance communal and individual responsibility. I enjoyed this book and learned from it." -- Cynthia Bisman, Bryn Mawr College --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
"The best of its kind. Offers a clear application of knowledge for practice and covers a critical number of practitioner/client concerns. Thank you for bringing this invaluable resource to the classroom." -- Bernadette Jeffrey Fletcher , University of Pittsburgh
"The perspective of this book creates a healthy lens through which to examine the Black family. It is a powerful articulation of multiple situations in which Black families use their emotional, interpersonal, and spiritual strengths to resiliently cope with problems and social injustices. It calls for providers to join with Black families in their journey to live fulfilling lives by connecting with their strengths, hopes, beliefs, and natural helping networks. The reader gains a deeper appreciation of the self-help strategies utilized by the Black family to cope with multiple social problems and social pathologies while maintaining a sense of hope, dignity, connectedness with the family, spiritual beliefs and a historical legacy." -- Roger J. Sherwood , Hunter College School of Social Work
"The strengths of the networks that flow within and beyond the family give focus to the essays collected in this volume." -- Journal of Social Work Education
"This is a highly readable book. Its uplifting and positive message will be appreciated along with the many case examples and strategies for change. Students and professionals who provide services to Black families will be challenged to think in new and positive ways about Black family life. Sadye Logan emphasizes the basic humanity of both family members and professionals. Her approach is to build nurturing environments and enhance communal and individual responsibility. I enjoyed this book and learned from it." -- Cynthia Bisman, Bryn Mawr College --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
About the Author
Sadye L. M. Logan, DSW, ACSW, holds the I. DeQuincey Newman Endowed Professorship in Social Work Education at the University of South Carolina College of Social Work. She teaches practice method courses and courses on family treatment. She also taught at the University of Kansas, where she chaired the foundation practice sequence and co-chaired the Institute for the Study of Black Families. Her research interests include social justice issues impacting families and children, culturally specific services for children and families of color, the psycho-spiritual dimensions of practice and education, addictive behaviors, and racial identity development. Dr. Logan has written extensively in these areas. Dr. Logan earned her MSW degree from Hunter College and her DSW from Columbia University in New York City.
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This review is from: The Black Family: Strengths, Self-Help, and Positive Change (Paperback)
I have used this text for a course I teach entitled Black Families. This book is a great resource as a companion with other texts I have used for this course. Ms. Logan considers the Black family utilizing a strengths perspective,however this perspective does not exonerate society from seriously considering changes which will help to turn the tide on the destructive realities of poverty; substance abuse; depleted educational systems;institutional racism and differential treatment based on class. This book will engage the reader to critically analyze their position on a variety of topics which remain prevalent in our society today. This book has become the basis for several class projects and exciting discourse. I highly recommend Ms. Logan's book as a required text for classes on diversity and courses addressing the experiences and factors affecting the Black Family.
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This review is from: The Black Family: Strengths, Self-Help, and Positive Change (Paperback)
This is a Great Book to help empower Black People to tap into the resources that we have inside of us.Now I can see why it was so hard to get a copy of this material.
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