This volume draws upon the author's experience in the inner city to provide guidance to therapists working with poor families. While standard counselling models are often limited to individual persons and their problems, this book emphasizes the importance of understanding individual needs within a [...]

Now in a substantially revised second edition, this widely adopted text and practical guidebook presents the fundamentals of family-based intervention with clients struggling with chronic poverty-related crises and life stressors. Grounded in Salvador Minuchin's influential systemic model and the ex[...]