Women in Families: A Framework for Family Therapy / Edition 1

by Monica McGoldrick MA, MSW, PhD, Carol M. Anderson Ph. D., Froma Walsh

Overview

“This collection is an outstanding work bringing together 22 contributed essays by family therapy theorists and practitioners on the subject of women and women’s issues. . . . These writings reveal abundant creativity and enormous scope. The volume is fertile, articulate, and absorbing . . . . It should be mandatory reading in every family training curriculum in the country.” —Smith College Studies in Social Work

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393307764
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	04/17/1991
Series:	Norton Professional Books (Paperback)
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	500
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.30(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Monica McGoldrick, MA, MSW, PhD, cofounder and director of the Multicultural Family Institute and adjunct faculty at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, 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).

Editorial Reviews

A basic text for clinicians and students in family therapy and women's studies; addresses the question of how women experience family life from a variety of perspectives. Covers theory, practice, training, a variety of settings, and the impact of mental disorder, addiction, ritual in families. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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