Editorial Review:

Now featured in a Classics Edition with a new Foreword by Donald Boch, The Expanded Family Life Cycle integrates theory and current research with clinical guidelines and cases by two of the most-respected authors, teachers, and clinicians in the field of family therapyA...Carter and Monica McGoldrick. This classic Family Therapy text provides "and more comprehensive way to think about human development and the life cycle," reflecting changes in society away from orientation toward the nuclear family, toward a more diverse and inclusive definition of "family." This expanded view of the family includes the impact of issues at multiple levels of the human system: the individual, family households, the extended family, the community, the cultural group, and the larger society. The text features a ground-breaking integration of individual male and female development in systemic context; our increasing racial, ethnic, and cultural diversity; the emergence of men's movements and issues; the growing visibility of lesbian and gay families; and the neglected area of social class.

Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 2.5 / 5.0

Expanded Family Life Cycle:Individual, Family and Social Perspectives:

This is without a doubt the best textbook I have ever read. It reads easily, is very informative, thought provoking, and rings true over and over again.

Totally biased:

If I could have rated this book zero or less, I would have done so. This book is required for a grad school course I am now taking. I am struggling to read each chapter because of the biased perspective of the authors. This book SHOULD NOT be required reading for any course!

Looking hard for the merit:

I had to read this book as part of my grad school program, but found every chapter a chore. As has been said before, the authors' political bias and agenda permeates nearly every page, and the chapters that aren't directly written by McGoldrick and Carter, although more promising, are still etched with this harmful bias. Having read other writings by McGoldrick especially, I was not entirely surprised by this bias, but to find it so codified and oppressive in a textbook is inexcusable.
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The Old Testament is less DOGMATIC.:

This disappointing book
is pretentious and
transparently biased.
I prefer a textbook
I can learn from and trust,
to one where I find myself tolerating
stale slogans and stereotypes.

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