Black Families in Therapy
Second Edition
Understanding the African American Experience
Nancy Boyd-Franklin
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Hardcover$86.00 $73.10
orderJuly 29, 2003
ISBN 9781572306196
Price: 368 Pages
Size: 6⅛" x 9¼"
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orderApril 20, 2006
ISBN 9781593853464
Price: 368 Pages
Size: 6⅛" x 9¼"

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This classic text helps professionals and students understand and address cultural and racial issues in therapy with African American clients. Leading family therapist Nancy Boyd-Franklin explores the problems and challenges facing African American communities at different socioeconomic levels, expands major therapeutic concepts and models to be more relevant to the experiences of African American families and individuals, and outlines an empowerment-based, multisystemic approach to helping clients mobilize cultural and personal resources for change.