Black Families in Therapy: Understanding the African American Experience

By Nancy Boyd-Franklin

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 157230619X
• ISBN13: 9781572306196
• Release Date: July 2003
• Publisher: Guilford Publications
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

Great resource

This book is a great resource if you are planning to work with black families in therapy. It outlines practical things to do in the clinical setting and how black families are affected by racism and other societal pressures.