Normal family processes : growing diversity and complexity /
edited by Froma Walsh.
- Third edition.
- xvii, 678 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Changing Families in a Changing World: Reconstructing Family Normality / Clinical Views of Family Normality, Health, and Dysfunction: From Deficit to Strengths Perspective / Contemporary Two-Parent Families: Navigating Work and Family Challenges / Risk and Resilience after Divorce / The Diversity, Strength, and Challenges of Single-Parent Households / Remarriage Families and Stepparenting / Lesbian and Gay Families / Adoptive Families / Culture: A Challenge to Concepts of Normality / Race, Class, and Poverty / Immigrant Family Processes / Changing Gender Norms: Transitional Dilemmas / The Spiritual Dimension of Family Life / The Family Life Cycle / Family Resilience: Strengths Forged through Adversity / Normative Family Transitions, Normal Family Process, and Healthy Child Development / Mastering Family Challenges in Illness and Disability / Interactional Patterns in Marital Success and Failure: Gottman Laboratory Studies / Circumplex Model of Marital and Family Systems / Measuring Family Competence: The Beavers Systems Model / The McMaster Model: A View of Healthy Family Functioning / Unraveling the Complexity of Genetic and Environmental Influences on Family Relationships / Family Policy: Dilemmas, Controversies, and Opportunities / Froma Walsh -- Froma Walsh -- Peter Fraenkel -- Shannon M. Greene, Edward Anderson, E. Mavis Hetherington, Marion S. Forgatch and David S. DeGarmo -- Carol Anderson -- Emily B. Visher, John S. Visher and Kay Pasley -- Joan Laird -- Cheryl Rampage, Marina Eovaldi, Cassandra Ma and Catherine Weigel-Foy -- Monica McGoldrick -- Nancy Boyd-Franklin -- Celia Jaes Falicov -- Shelley A. Haddock, Toni Schindler Zimmerman and Kevin P. Lyness -- Froma Walsh and Julia Pryce -- Monica McGoldrick and Betty Carter -- Froma Walsh -- Philip A. Cowan and Carolyn Pape Cowan -- John S. Rolland -- Janice Driver, Amber Tabares, Alyson Shapiro, Eun Young Nahm and John M. Gottman -- David H. Olson and Dean M. Gorall -- W. Robert Beavers and Robert B. Hampson -- Nathan B. Epstein, Christine E. Ryan, Duane S. Bishop, Ivan W. Miller and Gabor I. Keitner -- Hilary Towers, Erica Spotts and David Reiss -- Anna Hartman. Ch. 1. Ch. 2. Ch. 3. Ch. 4. Ch. 5. Ch. 6. Ch. 7. Ch. 8. Ch. 9. Ch. 10. Ch. 11. Ch. 12. Ch. 13. Ch. 14. Ch. 15. Ch. 16. Ch. 17. Ch. 18. Ch. 19. Ch. 20. Ch. 21. Ch. 22. Ch. 23.
"Since its original publication two decades ago, 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 sociocultural 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."--Publisher description.