About the Book
Provides a comprehensive, integrated look at the individual and family context of human development
KEY TOPICS: Human development and the expanding family life cycle, effects of vertical and horizontal life stressors on families and individuals, spirituality and education as sources of resilience, psychology, health care, clinical practice, family centered practice, families in cultural context, genograms, family time line, family chronology, LGBT life cycle, single adults, couples, children, adolescents, aging, traditional womanhood and manhood redefined and reinvented
MARKET Guides clinicians (psychologists, social workers, counselors, nurses, medical practitioners) in working with patients or clients in mental health, healthcare, or social service settings
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 (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.
