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Expanding Family Life Cycle, The: Individual, Family, and Social Perspectives
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Updated, expanded, and more comprehensive
than ever, this new Fifth Edition a classic family therapy
resource, The Expanded Family Life Cycle, gives readers a
solid understanding of human development and the life cycle.
Featured are a groundbreaking integration of individual development
within a systemic context discussion of the increasing racial,
ethnic, and cultural diversity across the life cycle in the United
States today; life cycle perspectives on LGBT issues, alcohol,
sexuality, migration, social class, violence in the family, and
assessment of “home place” as fundamental to clinical
work. This edition moves from society’s general orientation
of nuclear families to consider a more diverse and inclusive
definition of society’s rapidly changing family patterns, one
that considers, among other things, that the life cycle time frame
itself has been expanding as people live longer and the patterns of
coupling and child rearing continue to change. Also explored are
the impact of issues at multiple levels of the human system and the
individual, family households, extended family, community, cultural
group, and the larger society. Included are new chapters on
sexuality over the life curse, mental health as well as physical
health in life cycle perspective, and friendship through the life
cycle. The Enhanced Pearson eText features embedded self-check
assessments.
Improve mastery and retention with the
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does not include access to the Enhanced Pearson eText. To order the
Enhanced Pearson eText packaged with a bound book, use ISBN
0134057279.
Updated, expanded, and more comprehensive
than ever, this new Fifth Edition a classic family therapy
resource, The Expanded Family Life Cycle, gives readers a
solid understanding of human development and the life cycle.
Featured are a groundbreaking integration of individual development
within a systemic context discussion of the increasing racial,
ethnic, and cultural diversity across the life cycle in the United
States today; life cycle perspectives on LGBT issues, alcohol,
sexuality, migration, social class, violence in the family, and
assessment of “home place” as fundamental to clinical
work. This edition moves from society’s general orientation
of nuclear families to consider a more diverse and inclusive
definition of society’s rapidly changing family patterns, one
that considers, among other things, that the life cycle time frame
itself has been expanding as people live longer and the patterns of
coupling and child rearing continue to change. Also explored are
the impact of issues at multiple levels of the human system and the
individual, family households, extended family, community, cultural
group, and the larger society. Included are new chapters on
sexuality over the life curse, mental health as well as physical
health in life cycle perspective, and friendship through the life
cycle. The Enhanced Pearson eText features embedded self-check
assessments.
Improve mastery and retention with the
Enhanced Pearson eText*
The Enhanced Pearson eText provides a rich, interactive learning
environment designed to improve student mastery of content. The
Enhanced Pearson eText is:
Engaging. The new interactive,
multimedia learning features were developed by the authors and
other subject-matter experts to deepen and enrich the learning
experience.
Convenient. Enjoy instant online
access from your computer or download the Pearson eText App to read
on or offline on your iPad® and Android® tablet.*
Affordable. The Enhanced
Pearson eText may be purchased stand-alone or with a
loose-leaf version of the text for 40-65% less than a print bound
book.
*The Enhanced eText features are
only available in the Pearson eText format. They are not available
in third-party eTexts or downloads.
*The Pearson eText App is available on
Google Play and in the App Store. It requires Android OS 3.1-4, a
7” or 10” tablet, or iPad iOS 5.0 or later.
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Published May 4, 2015
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April 23, 2023
Terrific book, terrible format on kindle
I first of all, this is an amazing book, but please do not buy it for Kendall. The formatting is terrible on Kindle devices, and almost impossible to read.
That being said, this is one of the most exhaustive books on family life cycles, I can imagine ever having been written. It’s not only well written, it’s easy to comprehend and is a great reference.
Even though the format on Kindle was difficult, I still found the book, engaging enough that I read it in a week’s time. Very helpful for clinicians.
I first of all, this is an amazing book, but please do not buy it for Kendall. The formatting is terrible on Kindle devices, and almost impossible to read.
That being said, this is one of the most exhaustive books on family life cycles, I can imagine ever having been written. It’s not only well written, it’s easy to comprehend and is a great reference.
Even though the format on Kindle was difficult, I still found the book, engaging enough that I read it in a week’s time. Very helpful for clinicians.
January 11, 2018
Read the text for a class. The text was usable and easy to understand as it was read. The book had a lot of information on every page, and the font was smallish. Overall, I'll keep this one on the shelf for later reference.
April 28, 2022
Read it for a class. Really good information. Wasn't too boring.
May 11, 2024
Very comprehensive and easy to read book covering all the family life cycles. Excellent reference book!
December 31, 2020
Required for therapy school. One of the more interesting textbooks we were assigned in our first semester. Considers individuals and relationships from a holistic and critical "ecological" perspective, which I really appreciate.
December 5, 2012
Pretty good text. Info on genograms is there. Used this book as part of my family counseling class in Winter 2012 quarter.
December 18, 2020
MFT 543- Helpful for explaining the impact of various nodal events and life cycles
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