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The Guilford Family Therapy Series. New edition of a text for psychotherapists and other mental health professionals on typical, healthy family functioning. Updated topics include divorced, remarried, adoptive, dual-earner, single-parent, gay, and lesbian families. 31 U.S. contributors.

Froma Walsh, PhD, is Professor in the School of Social Service Administration and the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Chicago. She is also the founding Codirector of the University-based Center for Family Health and its affiliated family therapy training institute, the Chicago Center for Family Health. She is the Editor of the Journal of Marital & Family Therapy, past president of the American Family Therapy Academy (AFTA), recipient of AFTA's Award for Distinguished Contribution to Family Therapy Theory and Practice, and an AAMFT Approved Supervisor. Her edited or coedited publications include Normal Family Processes, Second Edition; Women in Families; Living Beyond Loss; and a forthcoming book on spirituality and family therapy.

PART I Overview

Conceptualization of Normal Family Processes

3

(70)

Froma Walsh

PART II Research on Normal Family Processes

Measuring Family Competence: The Beavers Systems Model

73

(31)

W. Robert Beavers

Robert B. Hampson

Circumplex Model of Marital and Family Systems: Assessing Family Functioning

104

(34)

David H. Olson

The McMaster Model: View of Healthy Family Functioning

138

(23)

Nathan B. Epstein

Duane Bishop

Christine Ryan

Ivan Miller

Gabor Keitner

Genetic Influences on Family Process: The Emergence of A New Framework for Family Research

161

(24)

Danielle A. Bussell

David Reiss

PART III Emerging Family Forms and Challenges

Dual-Earner Families in Context: Managing Family and Work Systems

185

(23)

Chaya S. Piotrkowski

Diane Hughes

Divorce: Challenges, Changes, and New Chances

208

(27)

E. Mavis Hetherington

Tracy C. Law

Thomas G. O'Connor

Remarriage Families and Stepparenting

235

(19)

Emily B. Visher

John S. Visher

Normal Processes in Adoptive Families

254

(28)

Sherry Anderson

Maria Piantanida

Carol Anderson

Lesbian and Gay Families

282

(49)

Joan Laird

PART IV Normal Family Processes in Social and Developmental Contexts

Ethnicity, Cultural Diversity, and Normality

331

(30)

Monica McGoldrick

Race, Class, and Poverty

361

(16)

Nancy Boyd-Franklin

Changing Gender Norms

377

(28)

Barbara Ellman

Morris Taggart

The Changing Family Life Cycle: A Perspective on Normalcy

405

(39)

Monica McGoldrick

Marsha Heiman

Betty Carter

Mastering Family Challenges in Serious Illness and Disability

444

(30)

John S. Rolland

Challenges for Family Policy

474

(29)

Ann Hartman

Index

503

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Normal Family Processes, Second Edition

Normal Family Processes, Second Edition

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