Reaching Out in Family Therapy: Understanding the African American Experience
African-American families, ethnicity and family therapy, home-based family
therapy, marital and couples therapy, the multi-systems approach to the
treatment of poor inner-city families, issues for women of color, the
development of a model of therapeutic support groups for African-American
families living with AIDS, and issues in working with African-American
children and adolescents. Her publications include numerous articles and
chapters on the above topics. She has written five books including Black
Families in Therapy: A Multi-systems Approach; Children, Families, and
HIV/AIDS: Psychosocial and Therapeutic Issues; Reaching Out in Family
Therapy: Home-Based, School, and Community Interventions, with Dr. Brenna
Bry; and Boys into Men: Raising Our African American Teenage Sons with Dr.
Anderson J. Franklin. In 2003, the second edition of her book Black Families
in Therapy: Understanding the African-American Experience was published. Her
honors include the award for Outstanding Contributions to the Field of
Ethnic Minority Psychology and to the Mentoring of Students from Division 45
of the APA (2001), the award for Outstanding Contributions to the Theory,
Practice, and Research on Psychotherapy with Women from Division 35 of the
APA (1996), the Distinguished Psychologist of the Year Award from the
Association of Black Psychologists (1994), and the Pioneering Contribution
to the Field of Family Therapy Award from the American Family Therapy
Academy.
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