Through this genealogical journey, Pinderhughes discovers long lost connections with her and her family members’ namesakes that enrich her sense of self and connection with family members present and past. In the truest tradition of social work, she and McGoldrick demonstrate the collaborative power of interviewing and genogram to reveal painful truths, including the historical pervasiveness of invisibility, the subordination of black identity to the slave owner and the dynamic impact of race and racism.
Length of video: 0:35:28
English subtitles available
Group ISBN-10 #: 1-60124-561-0
Group ISBN-13 #: 978-1-60124-561-8
Monica McGoldrick, M.A., LCSW, Ph.D. (Honorary), the Director of the Multicultural Family Institute in Highland Park, New Jersey, is also Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. She received an Honorary Doctorate from Smith for her many contributions to the field. Among many other awards, she has received the American Family Therapy Academy Award for Distinguished Contribution to Family Therapy Theory and Practice. She has written and spoken widely on a variety of topics including culture, class, gender, the family life cycle, loss, genograms, remarried families, and siblings. Three of her books have become best-selling classics of their publishers:
The Changing Family Life Cycle, 3rd edition;
Ethnicity and Family Therapy, 3rd edition; and
Genograms: Assessment and Intervention, 3rd edition. See her
website for more information on Monica McGoldrick and The Multicultural Family Institute.
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Elaine Pinderhughes is Professor Emerita and former Chair of the Clinical Program at the Boston College School of Social Work. She has served as Lydia Rappaport Professor at Smith College School of Social Work, Lucille Austin Fellow at Columbia University, and held the Moses Chair at Hunter College School of Social Work. Pinderhughes has received numerous awards including the CSWE 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award. Her 1989 textbook,
Understanding Race, Ethnicity and Power: The Key to Efficiency in Clinical Practice, substantially changed the language of multiculturalism and human behavior in the practice arena and provided the rubric of culturally competent practice across human services disciplines. In 2016, she published
Understanding Power: An Imperative for Human Services (NASW Press) with co-editors Patricia Romney and Vanessa Jackson. She helped the BCSSW establish the diversity series which bears her name.