This groundbreaking practitioner guide and widely adopted text illuminates how racism, sexism, and other forms of oppression constrain the lives of diverse clients - and family therapy itself. Leading thinkers and therapists provide powerful tools for expanding the boundaries of the field and working toward truly inclusive clinical practice. More than a simple update, the second edition has been substantially revised and expanded. Numerous new topics are featured, and 20 chapters are entirely new. Highly readable and engaging, the volume integrates theoretical exposition with case vignettes and evocative autobiographical narratives. It reveals the experiences, challenges, wisdom, and struggles of people whose voices are not often heard in the mainstream literature, including racial minority, intercultural, poor, immigrant, and gay and lesbian families. Contributors discuss the impact of societal discrimination of family relationships, while at the same time exposing the biases that underlie prevailing conceptions of family health and pathology. Concrete suggestions are offered for tapping into clients' cultural resources and conducting culturally competent assessment, treatment, and clinical training. New perspectives and ideas are woven throughout the second edition. In particular, the section in which authors reflect on their own cultural and family legacies - a popular feature among practitioners and students alike - has been significantly expanded. Promoting a fuller understanding not only of cultural diversity but also of the diverse ways that practitioners can support clients' strengths, this book will open the reader to thinking and practicing differently. It is an invaluable text for graduate-level courses. -- From back cover.

Part 1.Theoretical perspectives -- Introduction : re-visioning family therapy from a multicultural perspective / Monica McGoldrick and Kenneth V. Hardy -- Transnational journeys / Celia Jaes Falicov -- Migration and the disruption of the social network / Carlos E. Sluzki -- Social class : implications for family therapy / Tracey A. Laszloffy -- Spirituality, healing, and resilience / Froma Walsh -- Race, reality, and relationships : implications for the re-visioning of family therapy / Kenneth V. Hardy -- Understanding families in the context of cultural adaptations to oppression / Vanessa McAdams-Mahmoud -- Part 2. Cultural legacies and stories : therapists' experiences -- Finding a place called "home" / Monica McGoldrick -- Black genealogy revisited : restorying an African American family / Elaine Pinderhughes -- The discovery of my multicultural identity / Fernando López-Colón -- Our Iranian-African American interracial family / Jayne Mahboubi and Nasim Mahboubi -- Voluntary childlessness and motherhood : afterthoughts / Marlene F. Watson -- Grieving in network and community : bearing witness to the loss of our son / Jodie Kliman and David Trimble -- Going home : one orphan's journey from Chicago to Poland and back / John Folwarski -- Legacies of white privilege / Lisa Berndt -- Transforming a racist legacy / John J. Lawless -- The Semitism schism : Jewish-Palestinian legacies in a family therapy training context / Linda Stone Fish -- My evolving identity from Arab to Palestinian to Muslim / Nuha Abudabbeh -- Biracial legitimacy : embracing marginality / MaryAnna Domokos-Cheng Ham -- Part 3. Racial identity and racism : implications for therapy -- The dynamics of a pro-racist ideology : implications for family therapists / Kenneth V. Hardy and Tracey A. Laszloffy -- White privilege and male privilege : a personal account of coming to see correspondences through work in women's studies / Peggy McIntosh -- Dismantling white male privilege within family therapy / Ken Dolan-Del Vecchio -- Latinas in the United States : bridging two worlds / Nydia Garcia-Preto -- Therapy with mixed-race families / Tracey A. Laszloffy -- Part 4. Implications for clinical practice -- Working with LGBT families / Elijah C. Nealy -- Gay and lesbian couples : successful coping with minority stress / Robert-Jay Green -- Working with immigrant and refugee families / Marsha Pravder Mirkin and Hugo Kamya -- A fifth-province approach to intracultural issues in an Irish context : marginal illuminations / Imelda Colgan McCarthy and Nollaig O'Reilly Byrne -- Working with African Americans and trauma : lessons for clinicians from Hurricane Katrina / Nancy Boyd-Franklin -- Once they come : testimony therapy and healing questions for African American couples / Makungu M. Akinyela -- Climbing up the rough side of the mountain : hope, culture, and therapy / Paulette Moore Hines -- Interracial Asian couples : beyond black and white / Tazuko Shibusawa -- Working with families who are homeless / Peter Fraenkel and Chloe Carmichael -- Coyote returns : a reconciliation between history and hope / Robin LaDue -- Part 5. Implications for training -- Teaching white students about racism and its implications in practice / Norma Akamatsu -- Visioning social justice : narratives of diversity, social location, and personal compassion / Matthew R. Mock -- Re-visioning training / Kenneth V. Hardy and Monica McGoldrick -- On becoming a GEMM therapist : work harder, be smarter, and never discuss race / Kenneth V. Hardy.