Feminist Family Therapy: Empowerment in Social Context by Louise B. Silverstein (Editor), Thelma Jean (Eds.) Goodrich, Thelma Jean Goodrich (Editor)

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Feminist Family Therapy offers case-based discussions that address race, gender, and class as they effect the personal problems of individual families. While keeping an explicit focus on clinical work, this volume highlights power differentials in families and larger systems.

Notable authors examine family issues such as couple intimacy, divorce, migration, lesbian mother families, and parent-child conflict. This book is sure to inspire therapists who have been working with an individual focus to include feminist-family-therapy in their work. It will also contribute to the continuing development of feminist theory and practice in family therapy.

About the Editors:

Louise B. Silverstein, PhD, is Associate Professor at the Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology at Yeshiva University, Bronx, New York, where she has taught courses in family therapy and the social construction of gender since 1992. Dr. Silverstein is a past president of the American Psychological Association’s Division of Family Psychology and is also a family therapist in private practice in Brooklyn, New York.

Dr. Silverstein is co-founder, with Dr. Carl Auerbach, of the Yeshiva University Fatherhood Project, a qualitative research study of fathering from a multicultural perspective. In 2001, Drs. Silverstein and Auerbach received the Distinguished Research Award for this project from Division 51, the Society for the Study of Men and Masculinity, of the American Psychological Association. In 2000, the Association of Women in Psychology awarded Dr. Silverstein and Dr. Auerbach the Distinguished Publication Award for co-authoring the article, “Deconstructing the Essential Father” published in the American Psychologist.

Thelma Jean Goodrich, PhD, is Associate Director of the Family Medicine Residency Program and Director of Behavioral Science at the University of Texas-Houston Medical School after three years at Columbia University in New York and fifteen years with Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. She is the co-author of Feminist Family Therapy: A Casebook (Norton, 1988) and editor of Women and Power: Perspectives for Family Therapy (Norton, 1991).

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