Written for researchers, practitioners, and students in advanced courses, this book furthers our understanding of the complexity of contemporary families. Seven types of families are the focus of this book, based on the research available and the challenges they present for mental health professionals. The family forms discussed are• Adoption• Foster care• Interracial families• Family members with special needs (with a focus on autism)• Families with LGBTQ members• Grandparent-headed Families• Family members with chronic medical conditions The volume establishes an innovative format that fits the new age of evidence-based practice. Each chapter is written by a collaborative team of authors consisting of researchers and practitioners. The former address the prevalence and characteristics of the family form and then present the research findings most relevant to clinical practice; the latter use this as the foundation for their portion of the chapter, in which they discuss strategies for good therapeutic intervention, representing a true integration of science and practice. Readers learn about relevant research findings regarding each family described, as well as gain explicit instruction and case material for which to augment therapeutic efforts with these populations. 

Product Description: This series provides readers with the information they need to think critically about the worldwide implications of global issues; each volume focuses on a controversial topic of worldwide importance and offers a panoramic view of opinions...read more

Product Description: Grounded in the personal narratives of twenty interracial couples with multiracial children, this volume uniquely explores interracial couples' encounters with racism and discrimination, partner difference, family identity, and counseling and therapy...read more

Product Description: Describes the benefits and challenges multiracial families face in today's society, including cultural and religious differences, societal views on intermarriage, and multiracial adoption.Title: Multiracial FamiliesAuthor: Fields, JuliannaPublisher: Mason CrestPublication Date: 2009/10/15Number of Pages: 64Binding Type: LIBRARYLibrary of Congress: 200902595...read more

Product Description: In April 2003, as war in Iraq was reaching its climax, Lynne O'Donnell was among the first Western journalists into the northern city of Mosul.At the city's hospital, the senior heart surgeon introduced her to his wife - Pauline Basheer, a middle-aged mother-of-two from Lancashire who has lived in Iraq for almost 30 years...read more

Details the Supreme Court case that challenged laws agains miscegenation and discusses the result of the case and its legacy.

Product Description: When in 1997 golfer Tiger Woods described his racial identity on Oprah as "cablinasian," it struck many as idiosyncratic. But by 2003, a New York Times article declared the arrival of "Generation E.A."—the ethnically ambiguous. Multiracial had become a recognizable social category for a large group of Americans...read more

Presents a series of narrative essays written from a variety of viewpoints, discussing the personal experiences of those who have interracial friendships or romances, or who are members of interracial families.

Product Description: GARDEN OF HOPE: Autobiography of a Marriage: a frank, endearing memoir of two star struck lovers who travel the world and Jim Crow America, a black-white couple coping with the realities of daily life and mental challenges for 10 years in Rio and other places during the dynamic sixties, and having a son, Raphael, in Manhattan, then breaking up, getting divorced, and remaining friends to this day: leaves you saying, Yes!, there is hope yet for the human race...read more

An ordained interfaith minister presents an inspirational handbook for creating meaningful wedding ceremonies that celebrate both individual traditions as well as personal commitment.

Explores the Supreme Court case that challenged and eventually overturned Virginia's law forbidding interracial marriages. (view table of contents)

Tells the story of the author's sister, Beth, and her last four weeks of life, struggling with breast cancer, and the impact it had on the author and his family (view table of contents)

Ten-year-old Trevor Sage-el describes his life at home and at school, his feelings about being son of a white mother and a black father, and what he likes and does not like about being biracial. (view table of contents)

Examines interracial marriages and the prejudice and difficulties that can be connected with them

Uses interviews with members of interracial/interethnic families to explore problems faced by 'mixed' children in such areas as family, school, dating, and adoption

A photo essay about the special world of bi-racial children, who experience the advantages of two different cultures but sometimes face problems and prejudices.