Expanding Family Life Cycle, The

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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 (3^rd ed), Genograms (3^rd ed), Living Beyond Loss (2^nd ed), Re-Visioning Family Therapy: Race, Culture and Gender in Clinical Practice (2^nd ed), Women in Families, and The Genogram Journey: Reconnecting With Your Family (2^nd 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 (3^rd ed), and of The Expanded Family Life Cycle (4^th ed). She also is a highly respected trainer in the area of Cultural Competence.

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Key content changes include:

• NEW! Learning Outcomes at the beginning of each chapter guide readers as they learn the key content and implications of major concepts in the chapters.
• NEW! A new chapter on friendship through the life cycle enables readers to incorporate inclusion of friends into their clinical thinking.
• NEW! A new chapter on sexuality through the life cycle helps readers assess and track individual and family sexual lives and experiences over the life cycle and in relation to others in their lives.
• NEW! An expanded delineation of individual and family life cycle tasks and phases in relation to the larger societal context provides deeper understanding of this pervasive topic, which runs throughout the book.
• NEW! Expanded exploration of psychological and physical health and illness over the life cycle coordinates a comprehensive discussion of the life cycle of mental and physical illnesses in conjunction with other individual and family life cycle processes.
• NEW! A completely revised discussion of men’s issues through the life cycle, individually, in family life, and in the social context.
• NEW! Discussion of the expanding phase between adolescence and adulthood gives readers a better understanding of emerging young adults in this phase.
• NEW! Discussion of cultural and spiritual aspects of major diagnostic categories in the DSM5 expands clinician’s understanding of the revised diagnostic manual in cultural perspective.
• NEW! Clinicians get a specific guide to assessing, engaging, and intervening using the Three Generational Multicontextual Framework for assessment and intervention (Chapter 1).

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Updated, expanded, and more comprehensive than ever, this new Fifth Edition a classic family therapy resource, The Expanded Family Life Cycle, gives readers a solid understanding of human development and the life cycle. Featured are a groundbreaking integration of individual development within a systemic context discussion of the increasing racial, ethnic, and cultural diversity across the life cycle in the United States today; life cycle perspectives on LGBT issues, alcohol, sexuality, migration, social class, violence in the family, and assessment of “home place” as fundamental to clinical work. This edition moves from society’s general orientation of nuclear families to consider a more diverse and inclusive definition of society’s rapidly changing family patterns, one that considers, among other things, that the life cycle time frame itself has been expanding as people live longer and the patterns of coupling and child rearing continue to change. Also explored are the impact of issues at multiple levels of the human system and the individual, family households, extended family, community, cultural group, and the larger society. Included are new chapters on sexuality over the life curse, mental health as well as physical health in life cycle perspective, and friendship through the life cycle. The Enhanced Pearson eText features embedded self-check assessments.

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• 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

The Expanding Family Life Cycle, gives readers a solid understanding of human development and the life cycle. Featured are a groundbreaking integration of individual development within a systemic context discussion of the increasing racial, ethnic, and cultural diversity across the life cycle in the United States today; life cycle perspectives on LGBT issues, alcohol, sexuality, migration, social class, violence in the family, and assessment of “home place” as fundamental to clinical work.

This edition moves from society’s general orientation of nuclear families to consider a more diverse and inclusive definition of society’s rapidly changing family patterns, one that considers, among other things, that the life cycle time frame itself has been expanding as people live longer and the patterns of coupling and child rearing continue to change. Also explored are the impact of issues at multiple levels of the human system and the individual, family households, extended family, community, cultural group, and the larger society. Included are new chapters on sexuality over the life course, mental health as well as physical health in life cycle perspective, and friendship through the life cycle.

Updated, expanded, and more comprehensive than ever, this new Fifth Edition of this classic family therapy text, The Expanded Family Life Cycle, gives readers a solid understanding of human development and the life cycle. Featured are a groundbreaking integration of individual development within a systemic context discussion of the increasing racial, ethnic, and cultural diversity across the life cycle in the United States today; life cycle perspectives on LGBT issues, alcohol, sexuality, migration, social class, violence in the family, and assessment of “home place” as fundamental to clinical work. This edition moves from society’s general orientation of nuclear families to consider a more diverse and inclusive definition of society’s rapidly changing family patterns, one that considers, among other things, that the life cycle time frame itself has been expanding as people live longer and the patterns of coupling and child rearing continue to change.

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The Enhanced Pearson eText provides a rich, interactive learning environment designed to improve student mastery of content with the following multimedia features:

• Self-Check. Embedded questions matched to chapter learning outcomes help readers apply the concepts and ensure that they master the learning outcomes. Questions and suggested feedback are provided in the Pearson eText.
• Chapter Review.    Embedded assessments with feedback help students review new terms and concepts. These are presented within the Pearson eText as interactive quizzes.