Reaching Out in Family Therapy: Home-Based, School, and Community Interventions - Softcover

A sure winner. This book is a hands-on, ready reference that gives family workers explicit instruction on how to successfully engage with parents and children in the home, school, and community. The authors explain how families, overwhelmed by poverty, racism, violence, or other stressors, may become alienated from needed support. Therapists learn to bond with these 'difficult' families and help them navigate the maze of complex systems in which they are embedded....This book will be invaluable in the education and training of family therapists and social workers (Elaine Pinderhughes, MSW, Professor Emeritus, Boston College Graduate School of Social Work).

Nancy Boyd-Franklin, PhD, is Distinguished Professor (Professor II) in the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. She has received awards for her outstanding contributions from many professional organizations, including the American Family Therapy Academy, the Association of Black Psychologists, the American Psychological Association (Divisions 45 and 43), the Association of Black Social Workers, and the American Psychiatric Association. Dr. Boyd-Franklin is the author of Black Families in Therapy, Second Edition, and coauthor of Therapy in the Real World, among numerous other publications.

Brenna Hafer Bry, PhD, is Professor of Clinical Psychology in the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, and has over 25 years of experience in home-based family, school, and community interventions and research. Dr. Bry has devoted her career to identifying at-risk youth and developing and evaluating early intervention programs for them and their families. One of her original school-based interventions recently was renamed the Behavioral Monitoring and Reinforcement Program and designated an “effective strategy” by the U.S. Department of Education’s Safe and Drug Free Schools Program.