Table of Contents

• Part 1 Perspectives on the Evolving Family Life Cycle 
• Chapter 1 The lifecycle in its changing content
• 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

About the Author

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, Genograms, Living Beyond Loss, Re-Visioning Family Therapy: Race, Culture and Gender in Clinical Practice), Women in Families, and The Genogram Journey: Reconnecting With Your Family.

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. Nydia 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, and of The Expanded Family Life Cycle. She also is a highly respected trainer in the area of Cultural Competence.