Monica McGoldrick, M.A., LCSW, Ph.D. (h.c.).
Monica
McGoldrick is the
Director of the Multicultural Family Institute in Highland Park, New Jersey,
and on the faculty of UMDNJ, Robert Wood Johnson Medical school. She
has a BA from Brown University, a MA in Russian Studies from Yale University,
an M.S.W and Honorary Doctorate from Smith
College School
for Social Work. Fourth generation Irish American, married to a
Greek immigrant, she was raised in a family in which her closest emotional
connection was to her African American caretaker, Margaret Bush. She grew up
knowing very little about her roots, but coming through her family therapy work
to believe deeply in the importance of connections to family and cultural
history. Dr. McGoldrick is known internationally for her
writings and teaching on topics including culture, class, gender, the family
life cycle, loss, family patterns (genograms), remarried families, and sibling
relationships. Her videotape of clinical work with a multicultural family
around issues of loss is one of the most widely respected in the field. Several
of her books have become best selling classics of their publishers: Ethnicity
and Family Therapy, now in its 3rd edition, co-edited with Joe Giordano and
Nydia Garcia Preto; The Expanded Family Life Cycle, 2005, soon going into a 4th
edition, co-edited with Betty Carter and Nydia Garcia Preto; Genograms:
Assessment and Intervention, in a 3rd edition, co-edited with Sueli Petry; Women
in Families, Living Beyond Loss: Death in the Family, 2nd edition, co-edited
with Froma Walsh and Revisioning Family Therapy: Race, Culture, and Gender in
Clinical Practice, recently published in a 2nd edition, co-edited with Ken
Hardy. Her book You Can Go Home Again: Understanding Family Relationships
translates her ideas about family relationships for a popular audience, using
examples such as Beethoven, Groucho Marx, Sigmund Freud and the Kennedys.
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