Expanding Family Life Cycle, The

Monica McGoldrick, MSW, PhD (h.c.), is the Director of the Multicultural Family Institute and on the Clinical faculty of the Psychiatry at the Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. She has an international reputation as a trainer and author. Her other books include Ethnicity and Family Therapy (3rd ed), Genograms (3rd ed), Living Beyond Loss (2nd ed), Re-Visioning Family Therapy: Race, Culture and Gender in Clinical Practice (2nd ed), Women in Families, and The Genogram Journey: Reconnecting With Your Family (2nd edition of You Can Go Home Again, 2011).  She is at work on a new Genogram Casebook to be published in 2015 and has two teaching videotapes on psychotherapy.net that have become classics in the field.    Nydia Garcia Preto, MSW, L.C.S.W. is the Associate Director at the Multicultural Family Institute in Highland Pk., NJ where she also has a Private Practice. Ms. Garcia Preto has been a Visiting Professor at the Rutgers Graduate School of Social Work, and was the Director of the Adolescent Day Hospital, at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. A noted family therapist, author, teacher, and lecturer, she has published and presented nationally on Puerto Rican and Latino families, Latinas, ethnic intermarriage, and families with adolescents. She is Co Editor of Ethnicity and Family Therapy (3rd ed), and of The Expanded Family Life Cycle (4th ed). She also is a highly respected trainer in the area of Cultural Competence.

• Part 1  Perspectives on the Evolving Family Life Cycle  Chapter 1 OVERVIEW: THE LIFE CYCLE IN ITS CHANGING CONTEXT: INDIVIDUAL, FAMILY AND SOCIAL PERSPECTIVES Chapter 2  WOMEN AND THE FAMILY LIFE CYCLE Chapter 3   MEN AND THE LIFE CYCLE Chapter 4 SOCIAL CLASS AND THE LIFE CYCLE Chapter 5  THE LIFE CYCLE OF ECONOMICALLY FRAGILE FAMILIES Chapter 6   SEXUALITY AND THE LIFE CYCLE Chapter 7   LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENDER INDIVIDUALS AND THE FAMILY LIFE CYCLE       Chapter 8  SPIRITUALITY AND THE FAMILY LIFE CYCLE Chapter 9  SIBLINGS AND THE LIFE CYCLE Chapter 10 SINGLE ADULTS AND THE LIFE CYCLE CHAPTER 11 FRIENDSHIP AND THE LIFE CYCLE Chapter 12  MIGRATION AND THE FAMILY LIFE CYCLE Part 2  Life Cycle Transitions and Phases                   Chapter 13  BECOMING AN ADULT: FINDING WAYS TO LOVE AND WORK Chapter 13  BECOMING AN ADULT: FINDING WAYS TO LOVE AND WORK Chapter 14 BECOMING A COUPLE Chapter 15  BECOMING PARENTS: THE FAMILY WITH YOUNG CHILDREN  Chapter 16 TRANSFORMATION OF THE FAMILY SYSTEM DURING ADOLESCENCE     Chapter 17 FAMILIES AT MIDLIFE: LAUNCHING CHILDREN AND MOVING ON Chapter 18  FAMILIES IN LATER LIFE: CHALLENGES, OPPORTUNITIES, AND RESILIENCE Chapter 19 DEATH, LOSS, AND THE FAMILY LIFE CYCLE Chapter 20 DIVORCE: AN UNSCHEDULED FAMILY TRANSITION Chapter 21 SINGLE-PARENT FAMILIES: STRENGTHS, VULNERABILITIES, AND INTERVENTIONS Chapter 22 THE REMARRIAGE CYCLE: DIVORCED, MULTINUCLEAR AND RECOUPLED FAMILIES Part 3  Clinical Dilemmas and Interventions  Chapter 23 CHRONIC ILLNESS AND THE LIFE CYCLE Chapter 24 ALCOHOL PROBLEMS AND THE LIFE CYCLE Chapter 25 VIOLENCE AND THE LIFE CYCLE Chapter 26 CREATING MEANINGFUL RITUALS FOR NEW LIFE CYCLE TRANSITIONS         Chapter 27 THE THERAPIST AND THE FAMILY: THE INTERSECTION OF LIFE CYCLES