Working with Families

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Offering practical tools for students and practitioners, this guide supports Canadian families facing evolving challenges. It explores family structures, communication styles, trauma, social media effects and issues impacting 2SLGBTQI, military, and Indigenous families, while underscoring professional ethics and self-care. Working with Families, Third Edition is an accessible and practice-oriented guide that equips students and practitioners alike with the knowledge and tools to support families facing complex and evolving challenges. Through clinical and sociological perspectives and employing a strengths-based approach, this thoroughly updated edition provides a broad overview of factors affecting Canadian families such as diverse family structures, healthy and unhealthy forms of communication, family culture and beliefs, couple dynamics, addiction, and developmental and psychiatric disabilities. Covering a range of topics, the author draws special attention to 2SLGBTQI and military families, the effects of violence and trauma, and professional ethics and self-care. Thorough updates to this third edition reflect contemporary issues such as trauma-informed practice, social media and its impact on families, the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, Indigenous families, colonialism, and "good enough parenting." Utilizing straightforward language, applied focus, and extensive pedagogical supports Working with Families, Third Edition remains an indispensable resource for students and practitioners of social services, child and youth work, family studies and health-related programs, and early childhood education.

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Pagina's: 300, Editie: Third, Paperback, Canadian Scholars