Normal family processes : growing diversity and complexity

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Normal family processes : growing diversity and complexity

edited by Froma Walsh

Guilford Press, c2003

3rd ed

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Includes bibliographies and index

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Since its original publication, this widely adopted text has been acclaimed as a milestone in the clinical literature. Surveying the vast diversity of family forms, life challenges and value systems in our rapidly changing society, the volume has helped redefine the boundaries of "normal family life" for generations of students and practitioners. This fully revised and expanded third edition once again brings together leading contributors to illuminate the complexities of healthy family functioning across varied structural arrangements and socio-cultural and developmental contexts. Existing chapters have been updated or fully rewritten to reflect the latest theories, research, demographic trends, and clinical practices. Seven entirely new chapters address single parent families, immigrant families, spirituality, family resilience, key processes in marital success and failure, and more.

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Part I: Overview. Walsh, Changing Families in a Changing World: Reconstructing Family Normality. Walsh, Clinical Views of Family Normality, Health, and Dysfunction: From Deficit to Strengths Perspective. Part II: Varying Family Forms and Challenges. Fraenkel, Contemporary Two-Parent Families: Navigating Work and Family Challenges. Greene, E. R. Anderson, Hetherington, Forgatch, DeGarmo, Risk and Resilience after Divorce. C. M. Anderson, The Diversity, Strength, and Challenges of Single-Parent Households. E. B. Visher, J. S. Visher, Pasley, Remarriage Families and Step-Parenting. Laird, Lesbian and Gay Families. Rampage, Eovaldi, Ma, Weigel-Foy, Adoptive Families. Part III: Cultural Dimensions in Family Functioning. McGoldrick, Culture: A Challenge to Concepts of Normality. Boyd-Franklin, Race, Class, and Poverty. Falicov, Immigrant Family Processes. Haddock, Zimmerman, Lyness, Changing Gender Norms: Transitional Dilemmas. Walsh, Pryce, The Spiritual Dimension of Family Life. Part IV: Developmental Perspectives on Family Functioning. McGoldrick, Carter, The Family Life Cycle. Walsh, Family Resilience: Recovery and Growth Out of Crisis and Challenge. P. A. Cowan, C. P. Cowan, Normal Family Transitions, Normal Family Process, and Healthy Child Development. Rolland, Mastering Family Challenges in Illness and Disability. Part V: Healthy Couple and Family Processes: Mapping the Complexity. Driver, Tabares, Shapiro, Nahm, Gottman, Interactional Patterns in Marital Success and Failure. Olson, Gorall, Circumplex Model of Marital and Family Systems. Beavers, Hampson, Measuring Family Competence: The Beavers Systems Model. Epstein, Ryan, Bishop, Miller, Keitner, The McMaster Model: A View of Healthy Family Functioning. Towers, Spotts, Reiss, Unraveling the Complexity of Genetic and Environmental Influences on Family Relationships. Part VI: Social Policy Perspectives: Societal Constructions of Family Health. Hartman, Family Social Policy: Dilemmas, Controversies, and Opportunities.

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