scholarly journals Genograms and African American Families: Employing Family Strengths of Spirituality, Religion, and Extended Family Network

2004 ◽  
Vol 09 (1) ◽  
pp. 30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annie McCullough-Chavis
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
African American Families ◽  
Family Strengths ◽  
Family Network ◽  
American Families

scholarly journals Kinship Ties: Attachment Relationships that Promote Resilience in African American Adult Children of Alcoholics

10.18060/136 ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 130-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Camille Hall
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Adult Children ◽  
Adult Children Of Alcoholics ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
Children Of Alcoholics ◽  
African American Families ◽  
Attachment Relationships ◽  
Kinship Ties ◽  
American Families

For many African Americans, the extended family has been the source of strength, resilience, and survival. Although changes in African American families, like changes in all families in the United States that have diluted the importance of kinship ties, many African Americans continue to place a high value on extended family members. Children of Africans and communities of African descent traditionally interact with multiple caregivers, consisting of kin, and fictive kin.Utilizing both attachment theory and risk and resilience literature, this paper discusses ways to better understand the resilient nature of African American families and how multiple attachment relationships assist at-risk African American children, specifically adult children of alcoholics (ACOAs).

African American Families in Diversity: Gay Men and Lesbians as Participants in Family Networks

1998 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vickie M. Mays ◽  
Linda M. Cha Tiers ◽  
Susan D. Cochran ◽  
Joanna Mackness
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Gay Men ◽  
African American Families ◽  
Family Networks ◽  
American Families
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