Reaching Out in Family Therapy: Home-Based, School and Community Interventions

Boyd-Franklin, Nancy, Haffer Bry, Brenna

ISBN 10: 1572306750 / ISBN 13: 9781572306752

Published by The Guilford Press, 2001

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Synopsis:

This volume provides the skills practitioners need to conduct family therapy sessions in the home, school, and community. The authors demonstrate how meetings outside of the traditional office setting can enable therapists to intervene actively in the various systems that affect clients' lives. This multisystems approach can be particularly useful when working with poor and ethnic minority families, whose support networks may include extended family, school personnel, and members of the "church family." Practitioners learn how to utilize out-of-office sessions to meet the people who are influential in clients' lives; observe the life realities of children, adolescents, and parents; and identify resources that can be mobilized to produce change. Detailed strategies are presented to help families manage and prevent such problems as substance abuse, school drop-out, and child abuse. The book includes extensive clinical case material. Note: Adolescents at Risk: Home-Based Family Therapy and School-Based Intervention describes the further development of the authors' multisystems model and includes a school-based achievement mentoring component.

About the Author:

Nancy Boyd-Franklin, PhD, is Distinguished Professor (Professor II) in the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. She has received awards for her outstanding contributions from many professional organizations, including the American Family Therapy Academy, the Association of Black Psychologists, the American Psychological Association (Divisions 45 and 43), the Association of Black Social Workers, and the American Psychiatric Association. Dr. Boyd-Franklin is the author of Black Families in Therapy, Second Edition, and coauthor of Therapy in the Real World, among numerous other publications.

Brenna Hafer Bry, PhD, is Professor of Clinical Psychology in the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, and has over 25 years of experience in home-based family, school, and community interventions and research. Dr. Bry has devoted her career to identifying at-risk youth and developing and evaluating early intervention programs for them and their families. One of her original school-based interventions recently was renamed the Behavioral Monitoring and Reinforcement Program and designated an “effective strategy” by the U.S. Department of Education’s Safe and Drug Free Schools Program.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Reaching Out in Family Therapy: Home-Based, ...
Publisher: The Guilford Press
Publication Date: 2001
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Good