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Family therapy with black families
Author(s) -
O'Brian Charles
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
journal of family therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.52
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1467-6427
pISSN - 0163-4445
DOI - 10.1046/j..1990.00366.x
Subject(s) - family therapy , task (project management) , family life , psychology , work (physics) , psychotherapist , sociology , gender studies , management , mechanical engineering , engineering , economics
Family therapy in Britain must develop to encompass the external reality of family life. Living in a racist society dominates the lives of all black families. Family therapists need to acknowledge and address this before intervening in the family system. This paper offers personal and professional experiences, confrontaion, structured exercises and general and specific principles for work with black families. Minimal and positive goals are advocated so that practitioners do not feel paralysed by the enormity of the task.