Culturally Competent Family Therapy A General Model

Subjects:

• Psychology » Clinical Psychology
• Psychology » Social Psychology
• Sociology » Social Work

Reviews:

• Ariel addresses this timely and important matter in an articulate and well researched fashion....Ariel's volume will be most relevant to practicioners and those training to be family therapists.
  —Choice
• The book would be valuable to a variety of mental health professionals who work as individual. couple and family therapists, or in social and health agencies, but more particularly to those of us who live and work in a multicultural society, a situation that is becoming more prevalent in our world.
  —Transcultural Psychiatry .
• [S]uccessfully brings out a well thought-out culture competent family therapy approach; using a very innovative method that makes the book an interesting document to read to the end; and for the therapists, a very unusual, innovative, structured way of dealing with the process of helping multicultural populations.
  —Journal of Psychology in Africa 2001

• Endorsement From Israel W. Charny
  Professor of Psychology and Family Therapy
  Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  Past President, International Family Therapy Association: Sensitive, creative, and intellectually rigorous--a remarkable combination. Shlomo Ariel's treatment of culturally sensitive therapy addresses some of the most important and most neglected sources of dysfunction and healing in families.
• Endorsement From Ronald F. Levant
  Co-Author Masculinity Reconstructed
  Dean, Nova Southeastern University
  Former Editor, Journal of Family Psychology: A much needed volume that places the enterprise of family therapy squarely in the cultural context. Building on the author's earlier work in information processing models, Dr. Ariel provides the reader with an outstanding set of conceptual tools for enhancing family therapy practice in an increasingly ethnoculturally diverse world.
• Endorsement From Florence W. Kaslow
  Kaslow Associates, P.A., Palm Beach Gardens, FL
  President, Family Psychology Division
  of the American Psychological Association: In this book Ariel has promulgated a fascinating and clinically useful model for conducting culturally competent family therapy. This comprehensive volume could well become essential reading for those engaged in treating multi-cultural patient populations, as well as those teaching and supervising about this seminal issue in today's society.
• Endorsement From Hilde Rapp
  Chair of the British Initiative for Integrative Practice: Shlomo Ariel's Culturally Competent Family Therapy is a path breaking book, intellectually demanding on the reader for its sheer sweep, while at the same time setting clear signposts for practicing family therapists, pointing the way towards more culturally aware case formulations and treatment planning....I thoroughly recommend this book as a general integrative framework which allows any therapist or counselor to examine their own values, beliefs, and ways of working, be this with individuals, families, couples, or groups.

Table of Contents:

• Foreword by Florence Kaslow
• Acknowledgdments
• Introduction
• Culture and Family Therapy: An Overview
• The Necessity to Incorporate Culture into the Theory and Practice of Family Therapy
• The General Model of Culturally Competent Family Therapy:A Brief Outline
• Family-Cultural Concepts Relevant to Diagnosis and Treatment
• The Family's Conceptualization of Its Environment
• The Family's Cultural Identity
• The Family's Functioning and Lifestyle
• The Family's Coping with Problems and Difficulties
• The Information-Processing Framework
• The Family as an Information-Processing System
• Culturally Determined Family Dysfunction
• Culturally Competent Family Diagnosis
• Data-Collection Instruments and Procedures
• Analysis of Diagnostic Data
• Therapy
• The Therapeutic Alliance in Culturally Competent Family Therapy
• Planning the Therapy: Strategies, Tactics and Techniques
• The Therapeutic Process
• Epilogue
• Appendix
• References
• Index