The Expanded Family Life Cycle: Individual Family and Social Perspectives

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Now featured in a Classics Edition with a new Foreword by Donald Boch The Expanded Family Life Cycle integrates theory and current research with clinical guidelines and cases by two of the most-respected authors teachers and clinicians in the field of family therapy Betty Carter and Monica McGoldrick. This classic Family Therapy text provides ";and more comprehensive way to think about human development and the life cycle "; reflecting changes in society away from orientation toward the nuclear family toward a more diverse and inclusive definition of ";family."; This expanded view of the family includes the impact of issues at multiple levels of the human system: the individual family households the extended family the community the cultural group and the larger society. The text features a ground-breaking integrat