Social Justice in Clinical Practice: Family Consultations with Adolescents in Urban Schools
By Norbert A. Wetzel and Hinda Winawer. In conversations with our faculty colleagues at the Center:
Deidre Ashton, Gloria Lopez-Henriquez, Glenda Mendelsohn, and Charlee Sutton.

Practice Guide
The Center's context oriented clinical practices and training programs are evidence and research based, especially regarding the work with youth at risk and their families.

For further information, please, consult Wetzel, N.A. & Winawer, H. (2002). School-Based Community Family Therapy for Adolescents at Risk. In: Kaslow, F.W., Massey, R.F., Massey, S.D. (eds.) Comprehensive Handbook of Psychotherapy. Vol. 3. New York: John Wiley & Sons; pp. 205 - 230.

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School-Based Community Family Therapy for Adolescents at Risk

Brief Synopsis:
Published in 2002 in the "Comprehensive Handbook of Psychotherapy", Wetzel and Winawer examine the recent shift in family therapy, where therapists pay special attention to the individual and family contexts that define the lives of their clients. Wetzel and Winawer discuss the Center's New Jersey Family Intervention and Empowerment Program (FIEP) and how its treatment of adolescents at risk is unique and effective.

Therapists in this program approach teenagers' experience with a sevenfold perspective in mind:

1. A student's or family's socioeconomic class and employment situation;
2. Identification with a particular ethnic heritage, culture, and race and the family’s immigration experience.
3. A teenager’s gender-role experience and gender identification.
4. A youth's sexual orientation.
5. An adolescent’s religious experience and spirituality and a family’s involvement (or lack of) with local places of worship and faith communities.
6. A youngster’s individual "bio-psycho-social" development and maturational age.
7. Every family member's condition regarding medical health or illness, especially alcohol and/or drug addiction or abuse.

The extensive bibliography refers the reader to the vast body of research supporting the Center's approach to family therapy.

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