Full Description
With numerous selections designed to reinforce the goal of empowering clients to take charge of their lives, this revised and updated second edition of The Black Family serves a two-fold purpose. It extends the small but growing body of strength-oriented literature to include African-American families and it serves as a natural extension of current texts on African-American families to provide social workers and the education community with a broader framework for understanding the needs of Black families. Offering both a research orientation and a practice perspective, this book should appeal to social work educators and practitioners involved in family services, health and mental health settings, and child and public welfare.
Contents
Foreword , Introduction , Building Strength Through Self-Help and Innovations , A Strengths Perspective on Black Families: Then and Now , Building on the Strengths of Black Families: Self-Help and Empowerment , Caregiving in African American Families: Caring for Children with Sickle Cell Disease , Helping Black Families Who Are Providing Care to Persons with AIDS , Homelessness Among African American Families , Revisiting Youth Violence: Implication for Positive Change , Creating and Promoting Positive Change , Effective Programs and Services for African American Families and Children: An African-Centered Perspective , Racial Identity Issues for Black Children in Foster Care , Resiliency and the African American Family: A Model of Family Preservation , Strengthening Family Ties: Working with Black Female Single-Parent Families , The Black Church as a Resource for Change , Epilogue: Understanding Help-Seeking Behavior and Empowerment Issues for Black Families
