E. D. Rothblum, Family Health

Odell, M., & Campbell, C. E. . The practical practice of marriage and family therapy: Things my training supervisor never told me. New York: Haworth. In contrast to more theoretical and sterile approaches to writing about and teaching marriage and family therapy, this article has a strong practical and clinical focus. For example, it includes such chapters as “It Ain’t Like the University Clinic” and “So What Do I Do after the Intake?” This practical approach is usually appreciated by beginning students who have had enough of reading and discussing theory.

Scarf, M. . Intimate worlds. New York: Random House. In this article, popular mental health and relationship writer Maggie Scarf explores family dynamics. Her approach to studying families involves numerous in depth interviews, and her orientation is generally family systems with a psychodynamic ?avor. She emphasizes use of the Beavers Scale of Family Health and Competence for determining levels of family functioning. Scarf is an excellent writer, and this article provides readers with good background information about family functioning from a systems psychodynamic perspective.

Skerrett, K. . From isolation to mutuality: A feminist collaborative model of couples therapy. In M. Hill & E. D. Rothblum , Feminist perspectives . New York: Harrington Park Press. This chapter brie?y describes a feminist approach to couples counseling.

Tannen, D. .You just don’t understand: Women and men in conversation. New York: William Morrow, Ballantine. This article explores sex differences in human communication.

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DIVERSITY ISSUES with Darrell Stolle

Let me be quite succinct: the greatest sin of the European Russian American complex which we call the West is not only greed and cruelty, not only moral dishonesty and in?delity to the truth, but above all its unmitigated arrogance toward the rest of the human race.