Reaching Out in Family Therapy (eBook)

Nancy Boyd-Franklin, PhD, is Distinguished Professor (Professor II) in the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. She has received awards for her outstanding contributions from many professional organizations, including the American Family Therapy Academy, the Association of Black Psychologists, the American Psychological Association (Divisions 45 and 43), the Association of Black Social Workers, and the American Psychiatric Association. Dr. Boyd-Franklin is the author of Black Families in Therapy, Second Edition, and coauthor of Therapy in the Real World, among numerous other publications. Brenna Hafer Bry, PhD, is Professor of Clinical Psychology in the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, and has over 25 years of experience in home-based family, school, and community interventions and research. Dr. Bry has devoted her career to identifying at-risk youth and developing and evaluating early intervention programs for them and their families. One of her original school-based interventions recently was renamed the Behavioral Monitoring and Reinforcement Program and designated an “effective strategy” by the U.S. Department of Education’s Safe and Drug Free Schools Program.

I. Overview1. Introduction2. Cultural, Racial, and Socioeconomic IssuesII. Home-Based Therapy3. A Framework for Home-Based Family Treatment4. Multigenerational Patterns in Families in Crisis5. Working with Children and Their Families6. Working with Adolescents and Their FamiliesIII. School and Community Work7. Working with Schools and Preschools8. Community Interventions9. A Multisystems Case ExampleIV. Research and Supervision10. Research Evidence for Home-Based, School, and Community Interventions11. Supervision and Training