Re-Visioning Family Therapy, Second Edition

Monica McGoldrick, LCSW, PhD (h.c.), is Director of the Multicultural Family Institute in Highland Park, New Jersey, and Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. Her videotape of clinical work with a multicultural family around issues of loss is one of the most widely respected in the field. Several of her books have become bestselling classics, including Ethnicity and Family Therapy; The Expanded Family Life Cycle; Genograms: Assessment and Intervention; Women in Families; Living Beyond Loss: Death in the Family; and Re-Visioning Family Therapy. She is also the author of a book for the general public, You Can Go Home Again: Reconnecting with Your Family. Ms. McGoldrick has received 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. Kenneth V. Hardy, PhD, is Professor of Family Therapy at Drexel University in Philadelphia and Director of the Eikenberg Institute for Relationships in New York City. He is a former Professor of Family Therapy at Syracuse University, where he also served as the Director of Clinical Training and Research and Chairperson of the Department of Child and Family Studies. Dr. Hardy is also the former Director of the Center for Children, Families, and Trauma at the internationally renowned Ackerman Institute for the Family in New York City. He maintains a private practice in New York City, specializing in family therapy. His work has received considerable public acclaim in both the electronic and print media, with appearances on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Dateline NBC, ABC’s 20/20, and PBS.

I. Theoretical Perspectives

1. Introduction: Re-Visioning Family Therapy from a Multicultural Perspective, Monica McGoldrick and Kenneth V. Hardy

2. Transnational Journeys, Celia Jaes Falicov

3. Migration and the Disruption of the Social Network, Carlos E. Sluzki

4. Social Class: Implications for Family Therapy, Tracey A. Laszloffy

5. Spirituality, Healing, and Resilience, Froma Walsh

6. Race, Reality, and Relationships: Implications for the Re-visioning of Family Therapy, Kenneth V. Hardy

7. Understanding Families in the Context of Cultural Adaptations to Oppression, Vanessa McAdams-Mahmoud

II. Cultural Legacies and Stories: Therapists' Experiences

8. Finding a Place Called “Home,” Monica McGoldrick

9. Black Genealogy Revisited: Restorying an African American Family, Elaine Pinderhughes

10. The Discovery of My Multicultural Identity, Fernando Lopez-Colón

11. Our Iranian–African American Interracial Family, Jayne Mahboubi and Nasim Mahboubi

12. Voluntary Childlessness and Motherhood: Afterthoughts, Marlene F. Watson

13. Grieving in Network and Community: Bearing Witness to the Loss of Our Son, Jodie Kliman and David Trimble

14. Going Home: One Orphan’s Journey from Chicago to Poland and Back, John Folwarski

15. Legacies of White Privilege, Lisa Berndt

16. Transforming a Racist Legacy, John J. Lawless

17. The Semitism Schism: Jewish–Palestinian Legacies in a Family Therapy Training Context, Linda Stone Fish

18. My Evolving Identity from Arab to Palestinian to Muslim, Nuha Abudabbeh

19. Biracial Legitimacy: Embracing Marginality, MaryAnna Domokos-Cheng Ham

III. Racial Identity and Racism: Implications for Therapy

20. The Dynamics of a Pro-Racist Ideology: Implications for Family Therapists, Kenneth V. Hardy and Tracey A. Laszloffy

21. White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences through Work in Women’s Studies, Peggy McIntosh

22. Dismantling White Male Privilege within Family Therapy, Ken Dolan-Del Vecchio

23. Latinas in the United States: Bridging Two Worlds, Nydia Garcia Preto

24. Therapy with Mixed-Race Families, Tracey A. Laszloffy

IV. Implications for Clinical Practice

25. Working with LGBT Families, Elijah C. Nealy

26. Gay and Lesbian Couples: Successful Coping with Minority Stress, Robert-Jay Green

27. Working with Immigrant and Refugee Families, Marsha Pravder Mirkin and Hugo Kamya

28. A Fifth-Province Approach to Intracultural Issues in an Irish Context: Marginal Illuminations, Imelda Colgan McCarthy and Nollaig O’Reilly Byrne

29. Working with African Americans and Trauma: Lessons for Clinicians from Hurricane Katrina, Nancy Boyd-Franklin

30. Once They Come: Testimony Therapy and Healing Questions for African American Couples, Makungu M. Akinyela

31. Climbing Up the Rough Side of the Mountain: Hope, Culture, and Therapy, Paulette Moore Hines

32. Interracial Asian Couples: Beyond Black and White, Tazuko Shibusawa

33. Working with Families Who Are Homeless, Peter Fraenkel and Chloe Carmichael

34. Coyote Returns: A Reconciliation between History and Hope, Robin LaDue

V. Implications for Training

35. Teaching White Students about Racism and Its Implications in Practice, Norma Akamatsu

36. Visionary Social Justice: Narratives of Diversity, Social Location, and Personal Compassion, Matthew R. Mock

37. Re-Visioning Training, Kenneth V. Hardy and Monica McGoldrick

38. Becoming a GEMM Therapist: Work Harder, Be Smarter, and Never Discuss Race, Kenneth V. Hardy