[PDF] African American Family Support Analysis eBook

Author : Robert B. Hill
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 29,43 MB
Release : 1993-03-05
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN :

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Black families in America face special and grave problems. Widespread unemployment, single parent circumstances, adolescent pregnancies, substance abuse, and violence are only some of the problems posing challenges. The authors, convinced that the conventional perspective used in the past to analyze black families is deficient, propose a holistic approach. That perspective takes into account the totality of black family life rather than measuring isolated factors. Using black families as the central unit of analysis, the authors identify fundamental issues requiring concentrated attention and policy changes. Both factors external to the black family and consideration internal to it are studied. The former include economic factors---racism, demographics, and governmental policies. The latter involve such aspects as black family structure, changes in the community, and widespread changes in values at the individual level. The authors provide practical recommendations for improving the conditions of black families through policy changes and revised priorities.

Author : Robert Joseph Taylor
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 33,45 MB
Release : 1997-08-13
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780803952911

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Most studies of Black families have had a `problem focus', offering a narrow view of important issues such as out-of-wedlock births, single-parent families and childhood poverty. Family Life in Black America moves away from this negative perspective and instead deals with a wide range of issues including sexuality, procreation, infancy, adulthood, adolescence, cohabitation, parenting, grandparenting and ageing. A fresh aspect of this book is the amount of diversity it reveals within black families and the forces that shape, limit and enhance them.

Author : Nancy Boyd-Franklin
Publisher : Guilford Publications
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 40,58 MB
Release : 2013-11-18
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1462514596

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This classic text helps professionals and students understand and address cultural and racial issues in therapy with African American clients. Leading family therapist Nancy Boyd-Franklin explores the problems and challenges facing African American communities at different socioeconomic levels, expands major therapeutic concepts and models to be more relevant to the experiences of African American families and individuals, and outlines an empowerment-based, multisystemic approach to helping clients mobilize cultural and personal resources for change.

Author : Hill
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 41,76 MB
Release : 1999-01-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0761817646

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Returning to his innovative work of twenty-five years ago, Robert Hill once more offers an incisive analysis of five key cultural strengths of African-American families. With compassion and eloquence, he argues that these existing strengths provide a solid foundation upon which to develop the kind of public policies and self-help initiatives that will truly promote the interests, not only of the African American community, but of our diverse nation as a whole.

Author : George Abatso
Publisher : Urban Ministries Inc
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 19,63 MB
Release : 1991
Category : African American families
ISBN : 9780940955172

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Can the African American family thrive in the 21st century? According to the authors, It is through flexibility, resiliency, clarification of values and commitment to God that the black family can continue to survive, in spite of pressures bearing down upon it. The book contains guidelines for strengthening single parent, dual parent, and extended African American families. Each chapter contains case studies and Bible applications.

Author : Robert Bernard Hill
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 12,86 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780761824688

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Hill, a Black social scientist and research director of the National Urban League, discloses the weaknesses of previous biased studies on the Black family and looks at five traits which characterize thriving Black families: strong kinship bonds, strong work orientation, adaptability of family roles, strong achievement orientation, and strong religious orientation. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).