Normal Family Processes, Fourth Edition

Growing Diversity and Complexity

Buch | Hardcover

592 Seiten

2012 | 4th edition
Guilford Press (Verlag)
9781462502554 (ISBN)

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Widely adopted, this valued course text and practitioner guide has expanded the understanding of family normality and healthy functioning in our increasingly diverse society. The editor and contributors are at the forefront of research and clinical training. They describe the challenges facing contemporary families and ways in which clinicians can promote resilience. With consideration of sociocultural and developmental influences, chapters identify key family processes that nurture and sustain strong bonds in couples; dual-earner, divorced, single-parent, remarried, adoptive, and kinship care families; gay and lesbian families; culturally diverse families; and those coping with adversity, such as trauma, poverty, and chronic illness. New to This Edition *Reflects important research advances and the changing contexts of family life. *Additional chapter topics: kinship care, family rituals, evidence-based assessment, and neurobiology. *All chapters have been fully updated.

Froma Walsh, MSW, PhD, is the Mose and Sylvia Firestone Professor Emerita in the Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice and the Department of Psychiatry, Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago. She is also Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Chicago Center for Family Health. Dr. Walsh is an internationally respected clinical scholar and a foremost authority on family resilience. Integrating developmental, relational, sociocultural, and spiritual perspectives, her resilience-oriented systemic approach with individuals, couples, and families fosters healing and positive adaptation. She is past editor of the Journal of Marital and Family Therapy and past president of the American Family Therapy Academy. Dr. Walsh is the recipient of many honors for distinguished contributions to theory, research, and practice, including the Presidential Citation from the American Psychological Association and awards from the American Family Therapy Academy, the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, the American Orthopsychiatric Association, and the Society for Pastoral Counseling Research. She is a frequent speaker and consultant internationally, and her books have been translated into many languages.

I. Overview 1. The New Normal: Diversity and Complexity in 21st-Century Families 2. Clinical Views of Family Normality, Health, and Dysfunction: From Deficit to Strengths Perspective II. Varying Family Forms and Challenges 3. Couple Interaction in Happy and Unhappy Marriages: Gottman Laboratory Studies 4. Contemporary Two-Parent Families: Navigating Work and Family Challenges 5. Risk and Resilience after Divorce, Shannon M. Greene, Edward R. Anderson 6. The Diversity, Strengths, and Challenges of Single-Parent Households 7. Remarriage and Stepfamily Life 8. Gay and Lesbian Family Life: Risk, Resilience, and Rising Expectations 9. Family Processes in Kinship Care 10. Adoptive Families, Cheryl Rampage, Marina Eovaldi III. Cultural Dimensions in Family Functioning 11. Culture: A Challenge to Concepts of Normality 12. Intersections of Race, Class, and Poverty: Challenges and Resilience in African American Families 13. Immigrant Family Processes: A Multidimensional Framework 14. Changing Gender Norms in Families and Society: Toward Equality amid Complexities 15. The Spiritual Dimension of Family Life IV. Developmental Perspectives on Family Functioning 16. The Family Life Cycle, Monica McGoldrick and Tazuko Shibusawa 17. Family Resilience: Strengths Forged through Adversity 18. Normative Family Transitions, Couple Relationship Quality, and Healthy Child Development 19. Mastering Family Challenges in Serious Illness and Disability 20. Family and Community Rituals in the 21st Century V. Advancing Family Systems Research and Practice 21. Assessment of Effective Couple and Family Functioning: Prevailing Models and Instruments 22. Unraveling the Complexity of Gene–Environment Interplay and Family Processes 23. Neurobiology and Family Processes.

Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	1120 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Familien- / Systemische Therapie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sozialpsychologie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-13	9781462502554 / 9781462502554
Zustand	Neuware