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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1572303735
• ISBN13: 9781572303737
• Release Date: July 1998
• Publisher: Guilford Publications
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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.