Normal family processes [electronic resource] : growing diversity and complexity / edited by Froma Walsh.

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Edition:4th ed.
Published: New York : Guilford Press, �2012.
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Format: Electronic eBook
Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. Overview
  • pt. 2. Varying family forms and challenges
  • pt. 3. Cultural dimensions in family functioning
  • pt. 4. Developmental perspectives on family functioning
  • pt. 5. Advancing family systems research and practice.

  • Part I. Overview
  • ch. 1. The new normal : diversity and complexity in 21st-century families / Froma Walsh
  • ch. 2. Clinical views of family normality, health, and dysfunction : from a deficits to a strengths perspective / Froma Walsh
  • Part II. Varying family forms and challenges
  • ch. 3. Couple interaction in happy and unhappy marriages : Gottman laboratory studies / Janice Driver [and others]
  • ch. 4. Contemporary two-parent families : navigating work and family challenges / Peter Fraenkel and Carrie Capstick
  • ch. 5. Risk and resilience after divorce / Shannon M. Greene [and others]
  • ch. 6. The diversity, strengths, and challenges of single-parent households / Carol M. Anderson
  • ch. 7. Remarriage and stepfamily life / Kay Pasley and Chelsea Garneau
  • ch. 8. Gay and lesbian family life : risk, resilience, and rising expectations / Robert-Jay Green
  • ch. 9. Family processes in kinship care / Malitta Engstrom
  • ch. 10. Adoptive families / Cheryl Rampage [and others]
  • Part III. Cultural dimensions in family functioning
  • ch. 11. Culture : a challenge to concepts of normality / Monica McGoldrick and Deidre Ashton
  • ch. 12. Intersections of race, class, and poverty : challenges and resilience in African American families / Nancy Boyd-Franklin and Melanie Karger
  • ch. 13. Immigrant family processes : a multidimensional framework / Celia Jaes Falicov
  • ch. 14. Changing gender norms in families and society : toward equality amid complexities / Carmen Knudson-Martin
  • ch. 15. The spiritual dimension of familiy life / Froma Walsh
  • Part IV. Developmental perspectives on family functioning
  • ch. 16. The family life cycle / Monica McGoldrick and Tazuko Shibusawa
  • ch. 17. Family resilience : strengths forged through adversity / Froma Walsh
  • ch. 18. Normative family transitions, couple relationship quality, and healthy child development / Philip A. Cowan and Carolyn Pape Cowan
  • ch. 19. Mastering family challenges in serious illness and disability / John S. Rolland
  • ch. 20. The value of rituals in family life / Evan Imber-Black
  • Part V. Advancing family systems research and practice
  • ch. 21. Assessment of effective couple and family functioning : prevailing models and instruments / Jay Lebow and Catherine B. Stroud
  • ch. 22. Unraveling the complexity of gene-environment interplay and family processes / Erica L. Spotts
  • ch. 23. Neurobiology and family processes / Mona DeKoven Fishbane.