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Working with Families, Second Edition
A Guide for Health and Human Services Professionals
By Patricia Spindel
April 2020
Print ISBN: 9781773381848
Overview
In its second edition, this accessible health and human services manual offers a critical overview of the issues and challenges that families face and provides practical strategies for promoting resilience and positive family functioning. Through clinical and sociological perspectives and employing a strengths-based approach, this revised edition provides a broad overview of factors affecting Canadian families such as diverse family structures, healthy and unhealthy forms of communication, family culture and beliefs, couple dynamics, addiction, and developmental and psychiatric disabilities. Covering a wide range of topics, the author draws special attention to LGBTQ and military families, the effects of violence and trauma, and professional ethics and self-care.
An indispensable resource for students and practitioners of social services, child and youth work, and early childhood education, the revised edition of Working with Families, Second Edition reflects current research and practices in the field and features updated statistics and accessible language.
Features:
- includes updated questions for reflection and new suggested further readings, case study scenarios, and classroom-specific resources and activities
- provides student resources with strategies and approaches for working with families
Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Changing Structure of Families
Chapter 2: Building on Family Strengths and Promoting Resilience
Chapter 3: Developmental Stages in Families
Chapter 4: Family Communication Styles and Couple Dynamics
Chapter 5: Family Roles, Diversity, and Gender Issues
Chapter 6: Family Scripts, Myths, Beliefs, Secrets, and Legacies
Chapter 7: Family Functioning, Scapegoating, and Attachment Issues
Chapter 8: Couple Relationships
Chapter 9: Families and Disability
Chapter 10: Family Violence
Chapter 11: Addiction and the Family
Chapter 12: Family Assessment
Chapter 13: Positive Strategies for Working with Families
Chapter 14: Working with Parents with Complex Needs
Chapter 15: Working with Military Families
Chapter 16: Grieving Families
Chapter 17: Common Pitfalls in Working with Families
