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The Expanding Family Life Cycle: Individual, Family, and Social Perspectives, Loose-Leaf Version (5th Edition)

McGoldrick, Monica

Carter, Betty A.

Garcia Preto, Nydia A.

Parenting & Relationships

Pearson

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

The Expanded Family Life Cycle: Individual, Family, and Social Perspectives

Politics & Social Sciences

chapter, contributors

Politics & Government

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