The Black Family
Subtitle: Strength, Self-Help, and Positive Change
Publisher: Westview Pr (Short Disc)
Published: September 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 221
ISBN-13: 9780813325767
Subjects: Black studies; Family welfare; Social work; Social Services & Welfare; Black American Sociology; Family; Politics / Current Events; United States; Self-Help; USA; Social conditions; African American families; Family social work; Social work with African Ameri; Social work with African Americans
First sentence: It appears that people's lives and environments are being transformed throughout the world.
Description: With eleven selections designed to reinforce the goal of empowering clients to take charge of their lives, this edited volume serves a twofold purpose. It extends the small but growing body of strength-oriented literature to include African American families, and it serves as a natural extension of current texts on African American families to provide social workers and the education community with a broader framework for understanding the needs of Black families.

Offering both a research orientation and a practice perspective, this book should appeal to social work educators and practitioners involved in family service, health and mental health settings, and child and public welfare.