Draft:Monica McGoldrick

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Monica McGoldrick, ACSW, PhD.(h.c), is an author and clinician who is best known for her revisioning of mental health and family therapy to include dimensions of ethnicity, gender, race, culture, social class.[1]  She was one of the first in the field of family therapy to emphasize and write about the influence of these dimensions on family processes and implications for clinical treatment.  At the time (1980) the leading family therapists rejected the ideas that ethnicity, gender, culture and race, or life cycle perspectives were of relevance.[2][3]

Background[edit]

She has published many books and articles but some of her most relevant books which are seminal in the field[1] include Ethnicity and Family Therapy,[4] The Expanded Family Life Cycle,[5]and Genograms.[6] Her teaching videos have become among the most widely viewed in the field.[7]

McGoldrick received the American Family Therapy Academy Award for Distinguished Contribution to Family Therapy Theory and Practice in1988, and an award from the Journal of Family Business for an article on ethnicity and families in 1994.[8] She was awarded an honorary Doctorate from Smith College School for Social Work (1991).[9]

Born in Brooklyn, New York, McGoldrick grew up on a farm in Solebury, Pennsylvania. She is a fourth generation Irish American. She became interested in the role of culture and ethnicity on family patterns while she was at Brown, majoring in Russian Studies and she wrote a thesis on the role of children in Dostoevsky’s Brothers Karamazov, especially regarding a common theme in his works of a child regenerating love in an adult who had become hardened or insensitive. McGoldrick has always viewed her interest in Dostoevsky as a good grounding for her study of family therapy, and in her work on transforming life narratives with genograms.[8] Referred to as the Godmother of genograms by the British Journal of Psychiatry,[10][clarification needed] McGoldrick has over the years published books, papers and videos on the use of genograms and with her colleagues has conducted research on genograms, ethnicity, and family patterns for many years.[8]

She is a believer in working collaboratively to create systemic change, and is known for recommending that it is best to work in teams, or a “buddy” group.[1][2][8]

Education and career[edit]

McGoldrick received her B.A. from Brown University in 1964 and a M A. in Russian Studies from Yale University in 1966, She then switched to social work and family therapy, receiving her M.S.W. from Smith College School for Social Work in 1969. She later received an Honorary Doctorate from Smith. McGoldrick is Director of the Multicultural Family Institute in Highland Park, NJ; and Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.[1][2]

Awards[edit]

AWARDS & HONORS
2005 AAMFT (American Association of Marital and Family Therapy), Family Therapy Award[11]
1998 American Association of Marital and Family Therapy, New Jersey Chapter. Award for Lifetime Contribution to Family Therapy.
1994 Best Paper on the topic. Journal of Family Business: for article coauthored with John Troast (1993): Ethnicity, Families and Family Business:  Implications for practitioners."  Family Business Review.
1989 Outstanding Contribution to the Field of Social Work & Particularly the Field of Family Therapy awarded by the Social Work Coalition of UMDNJ
1988 Distinguished Contribution to Family Therapy Theory & Practice, American Family Therapy Academy

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d Siegel, Judith (2016). "A Journal of Family Social Work conversation with Monica McGoldrick, LCSW". Journal of Family Social Work. 19 (1): 56–64. doi:10.1080/10522158.2015.1133954 – via Taylor & Francis.
  2. ^ a b c Arnold, M.S.; Parmer, T.; Sanders, J.-A.L. (1995). "Monica McGoldrick: On the Significance of Cultural Factors and Gender in Family Therapy". The Family Journal. 3 (3): 265–73. doi:10.1177/1066480795033016. S2CID 144752707 – via Sage Journals.
  3. ^ Wyatte, Randall C.; Yalom, Victor (January 2006). "Monica McGoldrick on Family Therapy". Psycotherapy.net. Retrieved 2024-01-07.
  4. ^ McGoldrick, J. & Giordano, N. Garcia Preto, (Eds.) (2005).  Ethnicity and Family Therapy, (3rd Edition), Guilford: New York.  (2nd edition, 1996; 1st edition 1985).
  5. ^ McGoldrick, M. Garcia Preto, N. & Carter, B. (2016). The Expanding Family Life Cycle: Individual, Family and Social Perspectives, 5th edition. Pearson: Boston; (Classic Edition, 2005; 3rd edition, 2nd edition, 1988; 1st Edition, 1980.  (Translated into Korean, Portuguese); 4th Edition, 2011)
  6. ^ McGoldrick, M., Petry, S., & Gerson, R. (2020). Genograms: Assessment and Intervention, 4th edition. W. W. Norton: New York. (3rd edition, 2008; 2nd Edition,1999; 1st edition 1985. (Translated into Japanese, Portuguese, Chinese & German, Polish, French, Spanish, Greek, Korean, Japanese).
  7. ^ Karam, Eli, The AAMFT Podcast - Episode #11 - Monica McGoldrick, retrieved 2024-01-08 – via YouTube
  8. ^ a b c d Preto, Nydia Garcia (2018-08-21). "McGoldrick, Monica". In Lebow, J.; Chambers, A.; Breunlin, D. (eds.). Encyclopedia of Couple and Family Therapy. New York: W.W. Norton & Co. pp. 1–4. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-15877-8_682-2. ISBN 978-3-319-15877-8 – via Springer Link.
  9. ^ "Monica McGoldrick Oral History, 2014 – A history of the Smith College School of Social Work". A history of the Smith College School of Social Work: Oral Histories. 2018-05-24. Retrieved 2023-12-13.
  10. ^ Dosani, Sabina (January 2009). "Genograms: Assessment and Intervention (3rd edn). By Monica McGoldrick, Randy Gerson & Sueli Petry. Norton Professional Books. 2008. 400pp. US$27.00 (pb). ISBN: 9780393705096". The British Journal of Psychiatry. 194 (1): 95. doi:10.1192/bjp.bp.108.052589. ISSN 0007-1250.
  11. ^ "List of AAMFT Award Recipients since 1995". American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy.