176 Pages
by
Routledge
176 Pages
by
Routledge
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Expansions of Feminist Family Theory Through Diversity reconstructs feminist family therapy to include issues of race, class, gender, culture, and sexual orientation. The contributors assist you with creating possible solutions to mental health problems in all types of families. This will enable you to find specific working strategies to help solve the problems inherent in families of diversity.... Read more
Contents
Introduction
- Deconstructing Race in Family Therapy
- LatiNegra: Mental Health Issues of African Latinas
- Social Inequalities and Therapeutic Relationships: Applying Freire’s Ideas to Clinical Practice
- Violence in the Lives of the Racially and Sexually Different: A Public and Private Dilemma
- Family Therapy: Having a Place Called Home
- Reference Notes Included
- Index
Biography
Rhea V. Almeida, ACSW, is Founder/Director of the Institute forFamily Services in Somerset, New Jersey. She is of Asian Indian descent,and grew up in Uganda and London before coming to theUnited States. She has written on family violence, Asian Indian families,mentoring, and unexamined assumptions in service delivery. Shehas served on the Gay/Lesbian Task Force for NAS W and is currentlyon the Credentialing Board for Domestic Violence. Her special interestsinclude: culture, gender and race in clinical training. She is on thefaculty of the Family Institute of New Jersey, Metuchen, New Jersey.
