Family Life Cycle

, a book that explores in readable fashion human evolution through the life cycle; Living Beyond Loss, a book about grief and unresolved mourning; and Revisioning Family Therapy: Race, Culture and Gender in Clinical Practice, a book that outlines the important socio-cultural factors influencing families in our society. er ancestors (on the McGoldrick side came from Donegal, Ireland, and her mother's Cahalane ancestors came from West Cork. She majoShe was born in Brooklyn, New York and grew up there and in Solebury Pennsylvania. Hred in Russian Studies at Brown University, and received a masters degree in Russian Studies at Yale University, before switching to social work and family therapy, receiving her MSW and later an honorary PhD from Smith College School for Social Work.