Women in Families

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Psychology / Women's Studies "This book is comprehensive, thought-provoking, and excellent reading. I couldn't put it down!" -Guidepost, American Association for Counseling and Development Women in Families A Framework for Family Therapy This comprehensive book, ideál as a basic text in family therapy and women's studies, addresses the question of how women experience family life from a variety of perspectives. It covers gender issues in family therapy theory, practice, and training; women in context (ethnicity and life cycle issues, marriage, motherhood, sisterhood, women alone, lesbian couples), and such special issues as work, addiction, and mentái illness. "This collection is an outstanding work bringing together 22 contributed essays by family therapy theorists and practitioners on the subject of women and women's issues... .These writings reveal abundant creativity and enormous scope. The volume is fertile, articulate, and absorbing... .It should be mandatory reading in every... Tovább

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Psychology / Women's Studies "This book is comprehensive, thought-provoking, and excellent reading. I couldn't put it down!" -Guidepost, American Association for Counseling and Development Women in Families A Framework for Family Therapy This comprehensive book, ideál as a basic text in family therapy and women's studies, addresses the question of how women experience family life from a variety of perspectives. It covers gender issues in family therapy theory, practice, and training; women in context (ethnicity and life cycle issues, marriage, motherhood, sisterhood, women alone, lesbian couples), and such special issues as work, addiction, and mentái illness. "This collection is an outstanding work bringing together 22 contributed essays by family therapy theorists and practitioners on the subject of women and women's issues... .These writings reveal abundant creativity and enormous scope. The volume is fertile, articulate, and absorbing... .It should be mandatory reading in every family training curriculum in the country." -Smith College Studies in Social Work Monica McGoldrick, M.S.W., is associate professor and director of family training for the department of psychiatry, UMDNJ-Róbert Wood Johnson Medical School and the Community Mentái Health Center at Piscataway, New Jersey. Carol M. Anderson, Ph.D., is professor, University of Pittsburgh Medical School, Western Psychiatric Institute, Pittsburgh. Froma Walsh, M.S.W., Ph.D., is associate professor, jointly appointed to the School of Social Service Administration and the department of psychiatry at the University of Chicago. Vissza