Working With Families of the Poor, 2nd ed

Abstract

Reviews the book, Working with families of the poor, 2nd ed by Patricia Minuchin, Jorge Colapinto, and Salvador Minuchin (see record [rid]2007-01402-000[/rid]). This book presents a multisystem approach in which one or more agencies interact with the families to address problems, including psychiatric disorders (especially substance abuse). The authors provide brilliant descriptions of how families as systems attempt to survive, how government agencies as systems attempt to help, and how the two or more systems interact. This book has multiple strengths. For example, specific programs—foster care, addiction, residential, hospital, and perinatal—are described. All of these descriptions are a pleasure to read, not only for the success the programs achieve in addressing the immediate multicrisis, but for their potential in achieving primary and secondary prevention. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)