| Description |
x, 257 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
1.Underorganization in the Poor Family--2.Assessment in Family Therapy--3.Family Therapy and the Community --4.Home/Community-Based Services: The Two-Tier Approach--5.The Family-School Interview: An Ecostructural Approach--6."Too Many Bosses"--7. "If I Don't Get Simple, I Cry"--8.Training of the Person of the Therapist for Work with the Poor and Minorities --9.The Negotiation of Values in Therapy--10.About Forgiving--11.Strength and Vulnerability |
| Summary |
Stressing culture, community, and choice, this book speaks to therapy for the new poor, a people poor more because they have lost their spirit than because they lack bread. The author's perspective arises from the theory and techniques of structural family therapy, but he goes beyond that view to reach for meaning in people's identities, traditions, and legacies. He urges therapists to recognize and work with spiritual forces in the poor and to avoid opportunistic practical solutions that assume that they are too poor, hungry, and downtrodden to care about meaning and purpose |
| Notes |
"A Norton professional book" |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-252) and index |
| Subject |
Anomy.
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Family psychotherapy -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Family psychotherapy -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Minorities -- Mental health services -- United States.
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Poor -- Mental health services -- United States.
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| LC no. |
94031002 |
| ISBN |
039370176X |
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