Counseling Multiracial Families

By Mark E. Kenney, Bea Wehrly, Kelley R. Kenney

Book Overview

Multiracial families (families in which one member of the family has a different racial heritage than the other member(s) of the family) comprise a rapidly growing U.S. population. Counseling Multiracial Families addresses this population that has been neglected in the counseling literature. In the first chapter, readers are given a comprehensive history of racial mixing in the United States special needs and issues of multiracial families as well as special strengths of multiracial families are addressed. Challenges of interracially married couples are explored as are the social and cultural issues related to parenting and child rearing of multiracial children in today′s society. The results of biracial identity development research are translated into counseling practice with the children, adolescents, and adults in multiracial families.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761915915
• ISBN13: 9780761915911
• Release Date: July 1999
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Re: A book not to be reckoned with.

Over the past five years, I have been working on a research project regarding cross-cultural relations. I needed to find a medium that would allow me to focus upon the intenseness of cross-cultural relations in regards to pyschological family stucture. I figured this book would be beneficial in my study. I was right ! It gave sufficient information concerning the pyschological reasoning for interracial families, stereotypes, and the every day structure that interracial families possess. This book will challenge anyone to place new perspective race relations, and that is a powerful thing. Excellent work Bea Wehrly, Kelley Kenney, and Mark Kenney !