Monica McGoldrick Oral History

Selections from Monica McGoldrick's Oral History, created for the Smith College School for Social Work Centennial. Topics include how she decided on a career in social work, her experiences at the Smith College School for Social Work, the value of SSW's block plan to her career and life goals, and the importance of friendship, including hers with Froma Walsch and Elaine Pinderhughes. For more information, visit https://sophia.smith.edu/ssw100-history Monica McGoldrick is a teacher, author, family therapist, and the Director of the Multicultural Family Institute. She was awarded an honorary Doctorate from Smith College School for Social Work (1991) and the American Family Therapy Academy Award (1988). McGoldrick was the Co-Director of the Cultural Competence Training Center for Central New Jersey and is on the faculty of the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. Her distinguished publications include: The Genogram Journey: Reconnecting with Your Family (2011), Re-Visioning Family Therapy (2008), The Expanded Family Life Cycle ( 2011), Ethnicity & Family Therapy (2005), and Women in Families, and Living Beyond Loss, (2004). Interviewer Kelly Anderson is an oral historian at the Sophia Smith Collection and faculty in the Program for the Study of Women and Gender at Smith College. Abstract for the whole oral history available in the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College. In this oral history, McGoldrick reflects on her Irish roots and her childhood in Brooklyn and on a farm in Pennsylvania. She discusses her time as a student at Brown, Yale, and the Smith School for Social Work, particularly in the context of social change movements of the 60s, 70s and 80s. McGoldrick also spends a good portion of the interview talking about her work in family therapy, notably at the Family Institute in New Jersey, and on her work with genograms. Bibliography and Footnote Citation Forms Video Recording Bibliography: McGoldrick, Monica. Interview by Kelly Anderson. Video recording, August 8, 2014. Social Work Archives Oral History Project, Sophia Smith Collection. Footnote: Monica McGoldrick interview by Kelly Anderson, video recording, August 8, 2014, Social Work Archives Oral History Project, Sophia Smith Collection.