Diversity in Couple and Family Therapy: Ethnicities, Sexualities, and Socioeconomics

This unprecedented volume provides a primer on diverse couples and families—one of the most numerous and fastest-growing populations in the United States—illustrating the unique challenges they face to thrive in various cultural and social surroundings.

• Offers an examination of a broader-than-typical array of diverse families and the challenges they face

• Includes case vignettes of couples and families of varying racial/ethnic, socioeconomic, religious/spiritual, and sexual orientations, the subgroups among them, and their intersections

• Examines issues including social disparities, stereotyping and discrimination, identity development, and the roles of neighborhoods and communities

• Written to allow easy incorporation as a textbook or supplemental text

• Includes highlighted "Myths and Realities" with each chapter as well as a list of additional resources and cultural competence take-aways after each section