Authors: Froma Walsh (Editor), Froma Walsh
ISBN-13: 9781572308169, ISBN-10: 1572308168
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Guilford Publications, Inc.
Date Published: December 2002
Edition: 3rd Edition
Froma Walsh, MSW, PhD, is a Professor in the School of Social Service Administration and the Department of Psychiatry, Pritzker School of Medicine, and Co-Director of the Center for Family Health at the University of Chicago. A member of the Board of Directors of Family Process, she is a past editor of the Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, past president of the American Family Therapy Academy, and the recipient of numerous awards for her distinguished contributions to the field of mental health. Dr. Walsh's authored or edited publications include Strengthening Family Resilience and Spiritual Resources in Family Therapy.
Since its original publication two decades ago, this widely adopted text has been acclaimed as a milestone in the clinical literature. Surveying the vast diversity of family forms, life challenges, and value systems in our rapidly changing society, the volume has helped redefine the boundaries of "normal family life" for generations of students and practitioners. This fully revised and expanded third edition once again brings together leading contributors to illuminate the complexities of healthy family functioning across varied structural arrangements and sociocultural and developmental contexts. Existing chapters have been updated or fully rewritten to reflect the latest theories, research, demographic trends, and clinical practices. Seven entirely new chapters address single parent families, immigrant families, spirituality, family resilience, key processes in marital success and failure, and more.
Ch. 1 | Changing Families in a Changing World: Reconstructing Family Normality | 3 |
Ch. 2 | Clinical Views of Family Normality, Health, and Dysfunction: From Deficit to Strengths Perspective | 27 |
Ch. 3 | Contemporary Two-Parent Families: Navigating Work and Family Challenges | 61 |
Ch. 4 | Risk and Resilience after Divorce | 96 |
Ch. 5 | The Diversity, Strength, and Challenges of Single-Parent Households | 121 |
Ch. 6 | Remarriage Families and Stepparenting | 153 |
Ch. 7 | Lesbian and Gay Families | 176 |
Ch. 8 | Adoptive Families | 210 |
Ch. 9 | Culture: A Challenge to Concepts of Normality | 235 |
Ch. 10 | Race, Class, and Poverty | 260 |
Ch. 11 | Immigrant Family Processes | 280 |
Ch. 12 | Changing Gender Norms: Transitional Dilemmas | 301 |
Ch. 13 | The Spiritual Dimension of Family Life | 337 |
Ch. 14 | The Family Life Cycle | 375 |
Ch. 15 | Family Resilience: Strengths Forged through Adversity | 399 |
Ch. 16 | Normative Family Transitions, Normal Family Process, and Healthy Child Development | 424 |
Ch. 17 | Mastering Family Challenges in Illness and Disability | 460 |
Ch. 18 | Interactional Patterns in Marital Success and Failure: Gottman Laboratory Studies | 493 |
Ch. 19 | Circumplex Model of Marital and Family Systems | 514 |
Ch. 20 | Measuring Family Competence: The Beavers Systems Model | 549 |
Ch. 21 | The McMaster Model: A View of Healthy Family Functioning | 581 |
Ch. 22 | Unraveling the Complexity of Genetic and Environmental Influences on Family Relationships | 608 |
Ch. 23 | Family Policy: Dilemmas, Controversies, and Opportunities | 635 |
Index | 663 |