Main description:

With its combined focus on inclusion, social justice, and evidence-based practice, this book will help clinicians work with today's diverse families in effective, culturally responsive ways. The book examines several common interactional challenges that contemporary families face, such as co-parenting, divorce, intimate partner violence, and blending families. For each challenge, contributors summarize research on the issue as well as multiple diverse family types, and then clinical examples show how to develop interventions for these family types.

Contents:

List of Contributors
Acknowledgments
1. Our Approach to Inclusive Evidence-Based Practice with Contemporary Families
Scott Browning and Brad van Eeden-Moorefield
2. Implications of Inclusion and Intersectionality for Clinical Practice
Maya Autret and Brad van Eeden-Moorefield
3. Stress from Microaggressions and Discrimination: A Focus on Asian American, African American, Latina/o/x, and Queer Families
Research: Lindsey Davis
Clinical Applications: Claudia GarcIa-Leeds, Yiqing Youngman, Cheryll Rothery, and Erika Grafsky
4. Couple Instability: A Focus on Fragile Families, Stepfamilies, Families With a Child on the Autism Spectrum, and Multiracial Families
Research: Francesca Adler-Baeder and Kim D. Gregson
Clinical Applications: C. Wayne Jones, Patricia Papernow, Scott Browning, Kelley Kenney and Mark Kenney
5. Intimate Partner Violence: A Focus on Queer Families, Families and Substance Use, and Military Couples
Research: Autumn M. Bermea
Clinical Applications: Peter Fraenkel, Kristen Benson, Camille St. James, and Matt Bowen
6. Co-Parenting: A Focus on Divorced Families, Stepfamilies, Intergenerational Families, and Families with a Child on the Autism Spectrum
Research: Tamara D. Afifi, Alison Mazur, and Chris Otmar
Clinical Applications: Amy Wagner, Patricia Papernow, Bindu Methikalam, and Bryan Peightal
7. Boundary Ambiguity: A Focus on Stepfamilies, Queer Families, Families with Adolescent Children, and Multigenerational Families
Research: Marilyn Coleman and Lawrence Ganong
Clinical Applications: Salvatore D'Amore, Scott Browning, Dena DiNardo, and Bindu Methikalam

8. Ambiguous Loss: A Focus on Immigrant Families, Post Incarceration Family Life, Addiction and Families, and Military Families
Research: Catherine Solheim and Anne Williams-Wengerd
Clinical Applications: Chris Kodman-Jones, Kyle Burke, Camille St. James, Miguel Lewis and Michelle Sherman
9. Loss and Bereavement: A Focus on Cancer and Families, Death of a Parent, Death of a Young Child, and Sudden/Violent Death in Families
Research: Jacquelyn J. Benson, Abigail J. Rolbiecki, and Tashel C. Bordere
Clinical Applications: Cadmona A. Hall, Allie Abraham, Dena DiNardo, Marianne Celano, and Ileana Ungureanu

10. Emergent Areas of Clinical Practice in Need of Research: Hearing or Vision Loss in Families
Susan McGroarty, Rachel Hull, and Chris Royer
11. Outcome Assessment in Family Therapy
Charles Fishman, Angus Craig, Scott Browning, Rachel Hull, and Allison Rozovsky