Children in Family Contexts, First Edition

Lee Combrinck-Graham, MD, private practice, Stamford, CT

Part I: Child Mental Health Fundamentals in Family Context. The Child in Family Therapy: Guidelines for Active Engagement across the Age Span, Tanya B. White, Richard Chasin. Development in Family Contexts, Geri Fox. Guidelines for a Family Assessment Protocol, Edith Catlin Lawrence. Family Therapy in an Age of Biological Psychiatry: Diagnostic and Treatment Considerations, Allan M. Josephson. The Biology of Family Culture, Douglas A. Kramer. Part II: Different Family Structures. Two-parent Families, or How to Love a two-headed Monster, Douglas A. Kramer. Successful African American Single-parent Families, Marion Lindblad-Goldberg. Remarried Systems, Mary F. Whiteside. Children in Foster Families, Kim Sumner-Mayer. Part III: Children in Families Facing Specific Challenges. Children with Chronic Illness and Physical Disabilities, Judith A. Libow. Families with Children with Disrupted Attachments, Lee Combrinck-Graham, Susan B. McKenna. Children of Parents with Mental Illness, Alan Cooklin. The Invisible Illness: Children in Alcoholic Families, Stuart A. Copans. Families Coping with the Death of a Parent: The Therapist's Role, Joan C. Barth. Part IV: Families and Larger Systems. The Family's Own System: The Symbolic Context of Health, David V. Keith. Partners for Success: A Collaborative Project in School-based Mental Health Practice and Training, Phebe Sessions, Verba Fanolis. Children in Placement: A Place for Family Therapy, Ann Itzkowitz. The Family and the Legal System: The Search for an Intelligent Integration, G. Pirooz Sholevar. Part V: Larger Issues Affecting Children in Families. A Model for Disrupting Cycles of Violence in Families with Young Children, John Brendler. Of Two Worlds: Working with Children in Immigrant Families, Veronica Barenstein, Ema Genijovich. The Many Cultures of Child Protection, Begum Maitra.