Marilyn J. Mason, Ph.D. co-author of
Facing Shame: Families in Recovery Once again Krestan walks us into the margins...to help us see the obvious. This book will be a must-read for all...whether in our professional or personal lives.
Maria T. Flores, Ph.D. Marriage and Family Institute of San Antonio An important contribution and needed textbook in universities and colleges,
Bridges to Recovery captures a rare integrity and understanding of family systems, addictions and culture.
Robert J. Ackerman, Ph.D. Director of the Mid-Atlantic Training Institute at Indiana University (PA) and co-founder, The National Association for Children of Alcoholics Jo-Ann Krestan has gathered information and authors to reflect the diversity of the many families that need help. This book is an excellent blending of current issues on addiction, family therapy, and multicultural treatment. There is something for everyone and everyone is included in this much-needed book.
Nancy Boyd-Franklin, Ph.D. Professor, Rutgers University, and author of
Black Families in Therapy: A Multisystems Approach Jo-Ann Krestan has made a unique contribution to family therapists and addiction counselors by combining insights and case material from addiction recovery work with family therapy and issues of ethnic and racial diversity. This remarkable book should definitely be required reading for all practitioners in the field.
Henry Lozano President and CEO of Californians for a Drug-Free Youth, Inc., and member of the President's Advisory Commission on Drug-Free Communities
Bridges to Recovery honors and utilizes the culture and ethnicity of the individual in the service of healing individuals and whole communities. When we use the fact of being Hispanic or Native American or African American or German or Irish or Jewish or so on, we are reintroducing the indigenous perspective into our lives. This book will be a refreshing new resource to all of us working in both addictions and cultural recovery.
Elaine Pinderhughes author of
Understanding Race, Ethnicity, and Power: The Key to Efficacy in Clinical Practice Bridges to Recovery leaves little doubt of the primacy of ecological or sociocultural factors in the genesis and treatment of people's problems, particularly addiction....Its chapter on addiction, power, and powerlessness emphasizes the interactive aspects of power with cultural dynamics: a significant update on power dynamics and a major contribution.
David Treadway, Ph.D. author of
Before It's Too Late: Working With Substance Abuse in the Family Finally, here's a book on differential treatment of substance abuse that reflects the changing face of America and our addictions as we enter the 21st century. This seminal work embraces and illuminates the rich complexity of treating addictions from a multicultural perspective and should be on every clinician's bookshelf.
Celia J. Falicov, Ph.D. President of the American Family Therapy Academy The very first book to bridge the crucial need to integrate addiction treatment with family therapy approaches within the context of developing cultural competence. This volume will become a must-read for all those interested in a culturally relevant, socially just and clinically effective contextual therapy of addiction.
Monica McGoldrick Director, Family Institute of New Jersey, and Co-Editor of
Ethnicity and Family Therapy Practical, rich in clinical wisdom, chock-full of fascinating case illustrations,
Bridges to Recovery transforms our understanding of addiction and offers us a clinical and theoretical head start for the complex cultural task ahead of us. Jo-Ann Krestan has brought together a remarkable and diverse group of clinicians who have frontline experience of the struggles of those suffering from addiction.
