Women in Families - A Framework for Family Therapy

This comprehensive book, ideal as a basic text in family therapy and women's studies, addresses the question of how women experience family life from a variety of perspectives. It covers gender issues in family therapy theory, practice, and training; women in context (ethnicity and life cycle issues, marriage, motherhood, sisterhood, women alone, lesbian couples), and such special issues as work, addiction, and mental illness.

About the author

Monica McGoldrick, MSW, PhD, Director of the Multicultural Family InstituteTeacher and on the Clinical Faculty of the Psychiatry Department of the Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, is the “godmother of genograms.” She has an international reputation as a trainer and author, and lives in Highland Park, New Jersey.Carol M. Anderson, Ph.D., is a professor at University of Pittsburgh Medical School.Froma Walsh, M.S.W, Ph.D., is Professor, School of Social Service Administration and Department of Psychiatry, University of Chicago, and Co-Director of the University-affiliated institute, the Chicago Center for Family Health. Her other books include Strengthening Family Resilience, Spiritual Resources in Family Therapy, and Normal Family Processes (3rd Edition).

Summary

Designed as a basic text in family therapy and women's studies, this book addresses the question of how women experience family life from a variety of perspectives. It covers gender issues in family therapy and examines women in the context of marriage, motherhood, lesbian lifestyles and more.

Product details

• Authors: Monica Mcgoldrick
• Assisted by: Carol M. Anderson (Editor), Monica Mcgoldrick (Editor), Monica (Robert Wood Johnson Medical School) McGoldrick (Editor), Froma Walsh (Editor)
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.1991
• EAN: 9780393307764
• ISBN: 978-0-393-30776-4
• No. of pages: 500
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 30 mm
• Weight: 699 g
• Series: Norton Professional Books (Pap; Norton Professional Books (Pap
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology