Working with Families of the Poor

By Patricia Minuchin, Salvador Minuchin, Jorge Colapinto

Book Overview

This widely adopted text and practical guidebook presents the fundamentals of family-based intervention with clients struggling with chronic poverty-related crises and life stressors. Grounded in Salvador Minuchin's influential systemic model and the extensive experience of all three highly regarded authors, the book illustrates innovative ways for professionals within substance abuse, foster care, and mental health contexts to build collaboration with families and other helpers, and to elicit families' strengths.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1593853475
• ISBN13: 9781593853471
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: Guilford Publications
• Length: 259 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

A Wonderful Book that Witnesses a Great Travesty

In this book the authors make a heart-felt plea for a more wholistic, integrated approaches to lower socioeconomic families. Sadly, this book is now out of print, which testifies to the reality that public mental health agencies have little qualms about asking clients to change but are completely unwilling to heed their own counsel. Now almost ten years later, little has changed as we continue to look at people as individuals versus "person in environment" (PIE) through our narrow approaches. Unless we are willing to change, as this book describes, then how can we ask our clients to do likewise? Rev. Sean Michael McLaughlin - Pastoral Counselor and Executive Director of Ferrar Family Services.