Understanding Diverse Families: What Practitioners Need to Know

Author: Barbara F. OkunPublisher: The Guilford PressPaperback:ISBN 10: 1572304170ISBN 13: 978-1572304178Today's mental health practitioners face a rapidly changing clientele. Divorce, remarriage, multiracial marriages, different types of adoption, openly gay and lesbian relationships--all have significantly altered the nature and composition of families. An indispensable classroom text and an important resource for clinicians working in private practice, managed care, and other settings, this book insightfully examines a range of healthy families with creative family structures. Review "A groundbreaking contribution....Having been involved in multicultural psychology all my professional life, I have found the traditional Euro-American definition of 'family' inadequate and detrimental in a culturally diverse society. Okun provides a conceptual framework that allows us to redefine families, to understand the historical, political