Understanding Diverse Families: What Practitioners Need to Know

Okun, Barbara F.

ISBN 10: 1572300566 / ISBN 13: 9781572300569

Published by Guilford Press, New York, 1996

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8vo. 376pp.

Seller Inventory # 21067

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Understanding Diverse Families: What Practitioners Need to Know
• Publisher: Guilford Press, New York
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1572300566
• ISBN 13: 9781572300569
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Social Sciences

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Synopsis

Today's mental health clinicians face a rapidly changing clientele. Divorce, remarriage, multiracial marriages, different types of adoption, openly gay and lesbian relationships\m\all have significantly altered the nature and composition of families. At the same time, clinicians in today's managed care environment are working with an increasingly diverse clientele. Addressing an important need, this illuminating volume is designed to help practitioners work effectively with diversity in this challenging new environment. It confronts myths and stereotypes about what is considered "normal" and what constitutes a "family," insightfully examines a range of healthy families with creative family structures, and expands our notions about how families work.

About the Author

Barbara F. Okun, Ph.D., is Professor in the Department of Counseling Psychology, Rehabilitation, and Special Education at Northeastern University; Clinical Instructor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School; and a supervisor in the Cambridge Hospital Couples and Family Therapy program. She has published several books, including Intimate Environments: Sex, Intimacy, and Gender in Family Therapy (coedited with David Kantor), as well as numerous chapters and articles, and she serves as Editor of a book series that focuses on women and mental health. Dr. Okun's clinical practice comprises a diverse clientele of individuals, couples, and families.