Widely adopted, this valued course text and practitioner guide has expanded the understanding of family normality and healthy functioning in our increasingly diverse society. The editor and contributors are at the forefront of research and clinical training. They describe the challenges facing contemporary families and ways in which clinicians can promote resilience. With consideration of sociocultural and developmental influences, chapters identify key family processes that nurture and sustain strong bonds in couples; dual-earner, divorced, single-parent, remarried, adoptive, and kinship care families; gay and lesbian families; culturally diverse families; and those coping with adversity, such as trauma, poverty, and chronic illness. New to this edition: * reflects important research advances and the changing contexts of family life * additional chapter topics: kinship care, family rituals, evidence-based assessment, and neurobiology * chapters on lesbian and gay families, stepfamilies, gender norms, and spirituality have been fully rewritten.
Part I: Overview. Walsh, The New Normal: Diversity and Complexity in 21st-Century Families. Walsh, Clinical Views of Family Normality, Health, and Dysfunction: From Deficit to Strengths Perspective. Part II: Varying Family Forms and Challenges. Driver, Tabares, Shapiro. Gottman, Couple Interaction in Happy and Unhappy Marriages: Gottman Laboratory Studies. Fraenkel, Capstick, Contemporary Two-Parent Families: Navigating Work and Family Challenges. Greene, Anderson, Forgatch, DeGarmo, Hetherington, Risk and Resilience After Divorce. Anderson, The Diversity, Strengths, and Challenges of Single-Parent Households. Pasley, Garneau, Remarriage and Stepfamily Life. Green, Gay and Lesbian Family Life: Risk, Resilience, and Rising Expectations. Engstrom, Family Processes in Kinship Care. Rampage, Eovaldi, Ma, Foy, Bloom, Samuels, Adoptive Families. Part III: Cultural Dimensions in Family Functioning. McGoldrick, Ashton, Culture: A Challenge to Concepts of Normality. Boyd-Franklin, Karger, Intersections of Race, Class, and Poverty: Challenges and Resilience in African American Families. Falicov, Immigrant Family Processes: A Multidimensional Framework. Knudson-Martin, Changing Gender Norms in Families and Society: Toward Equality Amid Complexities. Walsh, The Spiritual Dimension of Family Life. Part IV: Developmental Perspectives on Family Functioning. McGoldrick, Shibusawa, The Family Life Cycle. Walsh, Family Resilience: Strengths Forged Through Adversity. P. A. Cowan, C. P. Cowan, Normative Family Transitions, Couple Relationship Quality, and Healthy Child Development. Rolland, Mastering Family Challenges in Serious Illness and Disability. Imber-Black, Family and Community Rituals in the 21st Century. Part V: Advancing Family Systems Research and Practice. Lebow, Stroud, Assessment of Effective Couple and Family Functioning: Prevailing Models and Instruments. Spotts, Unraveling the Complexity of Gene-Environment Interplay and Family Processes. Fishbane, Neurobiology and Family Processes.