Re-Visioning Family Therapy: Addressing Diversity in Clinical Practice, 3rd Edition Doody's Expert Review Review Questionnaire ISBN: 9781462531936 ISBN-10: 1462531938 Copyright: 2019 Edition: 1st Editor: McGoldrick, Monica, Hardy, Kenneth V., Doody's Expert Review    Score: 94 Doody's Star Rating™ and Doody's Expert Review provide by Doody Enterprises, Inc. Reviewer: Ileana  Ungureanu,  MD, PhD, LMFT, CFTP  (Adler School of Professional Psychology) Description McGoldrick and Hardy have done it again with this third edition of their book on family therapy. As excellent as the first two editions (1998 and 2008), this update is needed because of all the multicultural changes we see around us. The book addresses the intersection of the practice of family therapy with aspects of diversity as gender, class, ethnicity, race, sexual orientation, spirituality, and religion. Purpose According to the authors, the book is meant to explore in an intimate way the lives of families who are affected by oppressive societal structures and ideologies, as a way to inform the clinical practice of family therapy. This is a very important aspect that is sometimes missed in other scholarly works that are more traditional. The book meets and exceeds its declared goals! Audience Clearly written with practitioners in mind, this is an excellent guide for students training to become family therapists at the master's or doctoral level. It is also invaluable for clinicians in the trenches working with marginalized populations, deeply wounded by the systemic oppression described in the book. The authors are more than well known nationally and internationally in the field of the family therapy; they are living legends and role models for past and future generations of clinicians working with families. Features The book covers the multiple aspects of identity and how they are intimately shaped at the intersection of person, context, and the larger society. Social class, poverty, gender, racial identity, and religion are just a few of the diversity describers that the multiple contributors examine. The importance of all these aspects for training and supervision is emphasized and discussed. A special chapter is dedicated to working with the larger systems. An important and unique characteristic of this book is the exploration of the self-of-the-therapist, the look in the mirror to identify parts of the self that were marginalized or the opposite, privileged, and how those experiences of privilege and/or oppression influence the clinical practice of family therapy. Assessment This is a very important and timely book in the present systemic, convoluted, complicated, and at the brink of change climate! Going through and beyond the theoretical and research aspects of family therapy, to the core and soul of working with each unique family system, especially with those whose voices "have been hidden from history," (p. xi) this work is as much a textbook as it is a reflective tool for all those daring to help families in this day and age. It's an invitation to revisioning and revising again and again what we think we know about others and ourselves. Review Questionnaire Range Question Score 1-10 Are the author's objectives met? 10 1-10 Rate the worthiness of those objectives. 10 1-5 Is this written at an appropriate level? 5 1-5 Is there significant duplication? (1=significant, 5=insignificant) 3 1-5 Are there significant omissions? (1=significant, 5=insignificant) 4 1-5 Rate the authority of the authors. 5 1-5 Are there sufficient illustrations? 5 1-5 Rate the pedagogic value of the illustrations. N/A 1-5 Rate the print quality of the illustrations. N/A 1-5 Are there sufficient references? 5 1-5 Rate the currency of the references. 5 1-5 Rate the pertinence of the references. 5 1-5 Rate the helpfulness of the index. 5 1-5 If important in this specialty, rate the physical appearance of the book N/A 1-10 Is this a worthwhile contribution to the field? 10 1-10 If this is a 2nd or later edition, is this new edition needed? 8 ©2024 Doody Enterprises, Inc.