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The Expanded Family Life Cycle: Individual, Family, and Social Perspectives (An Allyn & Bacon Classics Edition) (with MyHelpingLab) (3rd Edition)

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The Expanded Family Life Cycle: Individual, Family, and Social Perspectives (An Allyn & Bacon Classics Edition) (with MyHelpingLab) (3rd Edition)

By: Betty Carter   Monica McGoldrick  

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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 therapyACarter 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.

Publisher: Allyn & Bacon

Customer Review: 5 out of 5
satisfied customer - I am very satisfied with the delivery of this book. I did the prime and was very happy with the time it took to receive the book. The book is in good condition.

Customer Review: 1 out of 5
extreme anti male bias - this book was required for my grad school program. It was so biased it was worse than useless. myself and several classmates refused to read it after several chapters. This is an author with an axe to grind against all men. Every chapter has derogatory statements towards men. The double standard is aweful, if a man wrote like this in this age the book would be banned. It is just plain sexist. I would have hoped for better from Smith College. There are few useful citations. Crazy statement like "all first born brothers suffer from entitlement". Hello? Stand up to end the ware between genders. It is time to understand and value one another.

Customer Review: 2 out of 5
Dated Literature - Although the book is well written, the information is well dated. The literature is based on facts of the 1990s. I was dissappointed my professor chose this book as I feel we could be learning better from a more recent text.

Customer Review: 5 out of 5
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.

Customer Review: 1 out of 5
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!

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