Counseling Today's Families . - 3rd ed - book reviews

Adolescence,  Summer, 1999  

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Herbert, & GOLDENBERG, Irene. Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole, 1998. 375pp. $43.95 (p).

Focusing on family therapy with different types of families, the authors examine current family structures and living arrangements, detail common problem areas from a family-systems perspective, and offer intervention guidelines for working effectively with each family type. More than thirty case studies illustrate counselor interventions. Topics include: cybernetics, open and closed systems, subsystems and boundaries, stability and change, as well as post-modern and constructivist contributions. A new chapter, covering a variety of counseling models, looks at intervening in troubled relationships. There is up-to-date coverage of resiliency, appraisal for marital functioning, and HIV and AIDS counseling. An emphasis on assessment - critical to understanding families' needs - helps the reader understand the diversity of needs within and among family types. The role of ethnicity in family function is examined, with coverage of the effects of racism, poverty, and the process of acculturation, as well as intervention guidelines for working with African Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Asian Americans.

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