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
About the Author
Monica 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 Multicultural Family Institute in Highland Pk., NJ
where she also has a Private Practice. Ms. Garcia Preto has been a
Visiting Professor at the Rutgers Graduate School of Social Work,
and was the Director of the Adolescent Day Hospital, at the
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. A noted family
therapist, author, teacher, and lecturer, she has published and
presented nationally on Puerto Rican and Latino families, Latinas,
ethnic intermarriage, and families with adolescents. She is Co
Editor of Ethnicity and Family Therapy (3rd ed), and of The
Expanded Family Life Cycle (4th ed). She also is a highly respected
trainer in the area of Cultural Competence.