The Black Family: Strengths, Self-Help, and Positive Change, Second Edition

By Sadye L.M. Logan

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813367972
• ISBN13: 9780813367972
• Release Date: October 2000
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Great Book

This is a Great Book to help empower Black People to tap into the resources that we have inside of us.Now I can see why it was so hard to get a copy of this material.

Excellent Text

I have used this text for a course I teach entitled Black Families. This book is a great resource as a companion with other texts I have used for this course. Ms. Logan considers the Black family utilizing a strengths perspective,however this perspective does not exonerate society from seriously considering changes which will help to turn the tide on the destructive realities of poverty; substance abuse; depleted educational systems;institutional racism and differential treatment based on class. This book will engage the reader to critically analyze their position on a variety of topics which remain prevalent in our society today. This book has become the basis for several class projects and exciting discourse. I highly recommend Ms. Logan's book as a required text for classes on diversity and courses addressing the experiences and factors affecting the Black Family.