Description
Book SynopsisMonica McGoldrick, MSW, PhD (h.c.), is the Director of the Multicultural Family Institute and on the Clinical faculty of the Psychiatry at the Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. She has an international reputation as a trainer and author. Her other books include Ethnicity and Family Therapy (3rd ed), Genograms (3rd ed), Living Beyond Loss (2nd ed), Re-Visioning Family Therapy: Race, Culture and Gender in Clinical Practice (2nd ed), Women in Families, and The Genogram Journey: Reconnecting With Your Family (2nd edition of You Can Go Home Again, 2011). She is at work on a new Genogram Casebook to be published in 2015 and has two teaching videotapes on psychotherapy.net that have become classics in the field.
Nydia Garcia Preto, MSW, L.C.S.W. is the Associate Director at the
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Perspectives on the Evolving Family Life Cycle
- Chapter 1 OVERVIEW: THE LIFE CYCLE IN ITS CHANGING CONTEXT: INDIVIDUAL, FAMILY AND SOCIAL PERSPECTIVES
- Chapter 2 WOMEN AND THE FAMILY LIFE CYCLE
- Chapter 3 MEN AND THE LIFE CYCLE
- Chapter 4 SOCIAL CLASS AND THE LIFE CYCLE
- Chapter 5 THE LIFE CYCLE OF ECONOMICALLY FRAGILE FAMILIES
- Chapter 6 SEXUALITY AND THE LIFE CYCLE
- Chapter 7 LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENDER INDIVIDUALS AND THE FAMILY LIFE CYCLE
- Chapter 8 SPIRITUALITY AND THE FAMILY LIFE CYCLE
- Chapter 9 SIBLINGS AND THE LIFE CYCLE
- Chapter 10 SINGLE ADULTS AND THE LIFE CYCLE
- CHAPTER 11 FRIENDSHIP AND THE LIFE CYCLE
- Chapter 12 MIGRATION AND THE FAMILY LIFE CYCLE
- Part 2 Life Cycle Transitions and Phases
- Chapter 13 BECOMING AN ADULT: FINDING WAYS TO LOVE AND WORK
- Chapter 13 BECOMING AN ADULT: FINDING WAYS TO LOVE AND WORK
- Chapter 14 BECOMING A COUPLE
- Chapter 15 BECOMING PARENTS: THE FAMILY WITH YOUNG CHILDREN
- Chapter 16 TRANSFORMATION OF THE FAMILY SYSTEM DURING ADOLESCENCE
- Chapter 17 FAMILIES AT MIDLIFE: LAUNCHING CHILDREN AND MOVING ON
- Chapter 18 FAMILIES IN LATER LIFE: CHALLENGES, OPPORTUNITIES, AND RESILIENCE
- Chapter 19 DEATH, LOSS, AND THE FAMILY LIFE CYCLE
- Chapter 20 DIVORCE: AN UNSCHEDULED FAMILY TRANSITION
- Chapter 21 SINGLE-PARENT FAMILIES: STRENGTHS, VULNERABILITIES, AND INTERVENTIONS
- Chapter 22 THE REMARRIAGE CYCLE: DIVORCED, MULTINUCLEAR AND RECOUPLED FAMILIES
- Part 3 Clinical Dilemmas and Interventions
- Chapter 23 CHRONIC ILLNESS AND THE LIFE CYCLE
- Chapter 24 ALCOHOL PROBLEMS AND THE LIFE CYCLE
- Chapter 25 VIOLENCE AND THE LIFE CYCLE
- Chapter 26 CREATING MEANINGFUL RITUALS FOR NEW LIFE CYCLE TRANSITIONS
- Chapter 27 THE THERAPIST AND THE FAMILY: THE INTERSECTION OF LIFE CYCLES
