Bread & Spirit: Therapy with the New Poor: Diversity of Race, Culture, and Values (A Norton Professional Book)

Author: Harry J. ApontePublisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyPaperback:ISBN 10: 039370176XISBN 13: 978-0393701760"This is not another how-to book, although it is practical and applied. Instead, it is a book that addresses the tough situations and quandries facing therapists working with clients who differ from them in culture, ethnicity, lifestyle, or beliefs." --Contemporary Psychology From the Back Cover Stressing culture, community, and choice, this book speaks to therapy for the new poor, a people poor more because they have lost their spirit than because they lack bread. The author's perspective arises from the theory and techniques of structural family therapy, but he goes beyond that view to reach for meaning in people's identities, traditions, and legacies. He urges therapists to recognize and work with spiritual forces in the poor and to avoid opportunistic practical solutions that assume that they are too poor, hungry, an