TY - BOOK AU - McGoldrick,Monica AU - Carter,Elizabeth A. AU - Garcia-Preto,Nydia TI - The expanding family life cycle: individual, family, and social perspectives SN - 9780205968060 AV - HQ536 .C417 2016 U1 - 362.82/86 23 PY - 2016///] CY - Boston PB - Pearson KW - Life cycle, Human KW - Family counseling KW - United States KW - Family psychotherapy KW - fast KW - Family KW - Family Therapy KW - Family and Relationships KW - eflch KW - ukslc N1 - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; The life cycle in its changing context : individual, family, and social perspectives -- Women and the family life cycle -- Men and the family life cycle -- Social class and the life cycle -- The life cycle of economically fragile families -- Sexuality and the family life cycle -- Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals and the family life cycle -- Spirituality and the family life cycle -- Siblings and the life cycle -- Single adults and the life cycle -- Friendship across the life cycle -- Migration and the family life cycle -- Becoming an adult : learning to love and work -- Becoming a couple : the joining of families -- Becoming parents : the family with children -- The transformation of the family system during adolescence -- Families at midlife : launching children and moving on -- Families in later life : challenges, opportunities, and resilience -- Death, loss, and the family life cycle -- Divorce : an unscheduled family transition -- Single-parent families : strengths, vulnerabilities, and interventions -- The remarriage cycle : divorced, multi-nuclear and recoupled families -- Chronic illness and the life cycle -- Alcohol problems and the life cycle -- Violence and the life cycle -- Creating meaningful rituals for new life cycle transitions -- The therapist and the family : the intersection of life cycles N2 - 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 ER -