A Stranger in the Family: Culture, Families, and Therapy

by Vincenzo Dinicola

Overview

Provides a model of family therapy for working with families across cultures.

Drawing together emerging trends in therapy and the human sciences, the author offers an understanding of the situated nature of human problems and a way of changing the family's culture and idioms into a common language.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393702286
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	05/17/1997
Series:	Norton Professional Books (Hardcover)
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	400
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 9.60(h) x 1.40(d)

Editorial Reviews

Offers a model of cultural family therapy for working with families across cultures, particularly immigrants, refugees, and minorities in mainstream society. The author draws together several emerging trends in therapy and the human sciences: narrative approaches, transcultural psychiatry, studies of autobiographical memory and the distributed and saturated self, translation theory, and sociolinguistics. The text is intended to provide tools for translating the family's culture and idioms into a common language in a culturally responsive and collaborative way. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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