Guiding Families through Transitions

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An indispensable clinical resource and text, this book offers therapists evidence-based strategies to support families through life's inevitable transitions.

An indispensable clinical resource and text, this book offers therapists evidence-based strategies to support families through life's inevitable transitions. Chapters explore typical life cycle stages--couple formation, parenthood, adolescence, young adulthood and midlife, and later life--and describe treatment principles for frequently encountered family challenges. The book normalizes developmental strains and underscores the significance of flexibility, adaptability, and resilience through adversity. Extensive case examples encompass a range of family forms, cultural and individual differences, and life cycle disruptions, including parental separation, illness, and loss.

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Preface
I. Conceptual Foundations
1. The Contexts of Time and System
2. The Family as an Interactive System
II. Life Cycle Transitions
3. Committed and Marital Relationships
4. The Transition to Parenthood
5. Risk And Resilience in Childhood: The Impact of Family Life
6. Adolescents and Their Parents in a Highly Connected World
7. Emerging Adults and Their Parents at Midlife
8. Elderhood
III. Life Cycle Disruptions and Diverse Family Forms
9. Separation and Divorce
10. Single-Parent Families and Stepfamilies
11. Coping with a Chronic Illness
12. Loss, Death, and Grief
References
Index