Empowerment Practice with Families in Distress

Judith Bula Wise, professor emerita, has held academic positions at Columbia University and the University of Denver. She is the coeditor, with Marian Bussey, of Trauma Transformed: An Empowerment Response (Columbia University Press) and has developed and served as the first coordinator of the Trauma Response Certificate Program at the University of Denver.

• Introduction Part I. A Family-Centered Empowerment Framework 1. Empowerment Then and Now 2. Seeing Families Through an Empowerment Lens Part II. Three Family Profiles: The Journey from Oppression to Empowerment 3. The Laurencio-Smith Family: Our Differences Saved Us 4. The Williams Family: New Lives Beyond Incest 5. The Brown-Wiley Family: Homeless No More Part III. Helping Families 6. The Phases and Actions of Empowering Practice Part IV. A Closer Look at Families WITH Their Communities 7. Empowering Families with Community Resources 8. Supporting Theories that Empower Social WorkernFamily Transactions Appendix A. Cross-Cultural Counseling Competencies: A Conceptual Framework Appendix B. The Family Power Analysis

This book reveals the great potential of empowerment practices through specific principles and actual case materials. Families In Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Sciences This volume adds to the discourse of empowerment practice with families. -- Raymond Rodriguez Social Work with Groups