Ethnicity and Family Therapy, Third Edition (Google eBook)

Monica McGoldrick, Joe Giordano, Nydia Garcia-Preto

Guilford Press, Aug 18, 2005 - Psychology - 796 pages

This widely used clinical reference and text provides a wealth of 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.

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Review: Ethnicity and Family Therapy

User Review  - Lauren - Goodreads

This is book is astounding. Nothing to read cover to cover. Each chapter breaks down the family dynamics and structure of a particular ethnicity as it is a science. Reading your won provides insight into your own condition as well as the ability to much better understand others. Phenomenal.

Review: Ethnicity and Family Therapy

User Review  - Bill - Goodreads

This was a very informative and educational textbook that covered the various cultures and ethnicities of the world. As an adopted child that knows my biological heritage in part, it was interesting ...

Contents

• Ethnicity and Family Therapy: 1
• AMERICAN INDIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER FAMILIES: 41
• An Examination of the Native American Holocaust Experience: 55
• Native Hawaiian Families: 64
• FAMILIES OF AFRICAN ORIGIN: 77
• African American Families: 87
• African Immigrant Families: 101
• British West Indian Families: 117
• African American Muslim Families: 138
• LATINO FAMILIES: 153
• Brazilian Families: 166
• Central American Families: 178
• Colombian Families: 192
• Cuban Families: 202
• Dominican Families: 216
• Mexican Families: 229
• Puerto Rican Families: 242
• Salvadoran Families: 256
• ASIAN FAMILIES: 269
• Cambodian Families: 290
• Chinese Families: 302
• Filipino Families: 319
• Indonesian Families: 332
• Japanese Families: 339
• Korean Families: 349
• Vietnamese Families: 363
• An Overview: 377
• Indian Hindu Families: 395
• Pakistani Families: 407
• An Overview 423 Nuha Abudabbeh: 437
• Iranian Families: 451
• Lebanese and Syrian Families: 468
• Palestinian Families: 487
• FAMILIES OF EUROPEAN ORIGIN: 501
• Dutch Families: 534
• French Canadian Families: 545
• German Families: 555
• Greek Families: 573
• Hungarian Families: 586
• Irish Families: 595
• Italian Families: 616
• Portuguese Families: 629
• Plain and Simple: 641
• ScotsIrish Families: 654
• JEWISH FAMILIES: 667
• Israeli Families: 680
• Orthodox Jewish Families: 689
• Russian Jewish Families: 701
• SLAVIC FAMILIES: 711
• Czech and Slovak Families: 724
• Polish Families: 741
• APPENDIX CULTURAL ASSESSMENT: 757
• AUTHOR INDEX: 765
• SUBJECT INDEX: 776

Popular passages

Page 14 - Why should Pennsylvania, founded by the English, become a Colony of Aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us instead of our Anglifying them, and will never adopt our Language or Customs, any more than they can acquire our Complexion.‎

Page 14 - I could wish their numbers were increased. And while we are, as I may call it, scouring our planet, by clearing America of woods, and so making this side of our globe reflect a brighter light to the eyes of inhabitants in Mars or Venus, why should we, in the sight of superior beings, darken its people ? Why increase the sons of Africa, by planting them in America, where we have so fair an opportunity, by excluding all blacks and tawnys, of increasing the lovely white and red ? But perhaps I am partial...‎

Page 14 - Which leads me to add one remark, that the number of purely white people in the world is proportionably very small.‎

About the author

Monica McGoldrick, LCSW, PhD (h.c.), Director of the Multicultural Family Institute in Highland Park, New Jersey, is also Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey/n-/Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. She was Visiting Professor at Fordham University School of Social Service for 12 years. Ms. McGoldrick received her MSW in 1969 from Smith College School for Social Work, which later granted her one of the few honorary doctorates awarded by the school in its 60-year history. Other awards include the American Family Therapy Academy's award for Distinguished Contribution to Family Therapy Theory and Practice. An internationally known author, she speaks widely on culture, class, gender, the family life cycle, and other topics.

Joe Giordano, MSW, is a family therapist in private practice in Bronxville, New York. He was formerly Director of the American Jewish Committee's Center on Ethnicity, Behavior, and Communications, where he conducted pioneering studies on the psychological nature of ethnic identity and group behavior. The author of widely published articles on ethnicity, family, and the media, he served as host of Proud to Be Me, a PBS television program, and as producer of the audio series Growing Up in America.

Nydia Garcia-Preto, LCSW, is cofounder and Clinical Director of the Multicultural Family Institute. She has served as Visiting Professor at the Rutgers Graduate School of Social Work and as Director of the Adolescent Day Hospital at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. A noted family therapist, author, teacher, and lecturer, Ms. Garcia-Preto has published and presented widely on Puerto Rican and Latino families, Latinas, ethnic intermarriage, and families with adolescents. She is a highly respected trainer in the areas of cultural competence and organizational team building.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Ethnicity and Family Therapy, Third Edition
• Editors: Monica McGoldrick, Joe Giordano, Nydia Garcia-Preto
• Edition: 3
• Publisher: Guilford Press, 2005
• ISBN: 1606237942, 9781606237946
• Length: 796 pages
• Subjects: Medical / Nursing / Psychiatric; Medical / Psychiatry / General; Psychology / Ethnopsychology; Psychology / Psychotherapy / Couples & Family; Social Science / Social Work