First published in 1984. This is the first book in the mental health field to examine the complex phenomenon of the single-parent family from a systems perspective and to offer a clinical approach based on that expanded perspective.
Basics in Theory and Practice; Chapter 1 The Single-Parent Family: Myth and Reality; Chapter 2 The Theoretical Perspective: A Systems Approach; Chapter 3 From Intake to Initial Interview; Chapter 4 The Initial Interview as a Microcosm of Therapy; Case Studies; Part A Issues of Desertion, Marriage, Divorce, and Deatth; Chapter 5 In Search of a Missing Parent; Chapter 6 An Unfinished Marriage; Chapter 7 An Unfinished Divorce; Chapter 8 Death in the Family; Part B Transitions; Chapter 9 Breaking With the Past to Make a New Life; Chapter 10 Letting Go of a Daughter to Face the Future; Chapter 11 A Change of Custody; The Single-Parent Family at the Interface With Society; Chapter 12 The Single-Parent Family and the School; Chapter 13 Viewing the Multiproblem Family in Its Broader Context; Chapter 14 The Single-Parent Family and Public Policy;
