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Updated, expanded, and more comprehensive than ever, this new Fifth Edition a classic family therapy resource, The Expanded Family Life Cycle, gives readers a solid understanding of human development and the life cycle. Featured are a groundbreaking integration of individual development within a systemic context discussion of the increasing racial, ethnic, and cultural diversity across the life cycle in the United States today; life cycle perspectives on LGBT issues, alcohol, sexuality, migration, social class, violence in the family, and assessment of “home place” as fundamental to clinical work. This edition moves from society’s general orientation of nuclear families to consider a more diverse and inclusive definition of society’s rapidly changing family patterns, one that considers, among other things, that the life cycle time frame itself has been expanding as people live longer and the patterns of coupling and child rearing continue to change. Also explored are the impact of issues at multiple levels of the human system and the individual, family households, extended family, community, cultural group, and the larger society. Included are new chapters on sexuality over the life curse, mental health as well as physical health in life cycle perspective, and friendship through the life cycle. The Enhanced Pearson eText features embedded self-check assessments.

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The latest edition of this definitive book in the field of family therapy—the first update in ten years.

Widely used by family therapists— and by health care professionals in general—the genogram is a graphic way of organizing the mass of information gathered during a family assessment. This visual representation allows the practitioner to find patterns in the family system for more targeted treatment.

Now in its fourth edition, Genograms has been fully updated by renowned therapist Monica McGoldrick. Expanded with four-color images throughout, additional material explaining the use of genograms with siblings and couples, and a thorough updating to essential concepts, this edition provides a fascinating view into the richness of family dynamics.

Informative, comprehensive, and beautifully written and illustrated, this book helps bring to life principles of family system theory and systemic interviewing, as well as walk readers through the basics of constructing a genogram, doing a genogram interview, and interpreting the results.

A long-awaited workbook companion to Monica McGoldrick’s highly successful textbook Genograms.

This widely used clinical reference and text provides a wealth of knowledge on culturally sensitive practice with families and individuals from over 40 different ethnic groups. Each chapter demonstrates how ethnocultural factors may influence the assumptions of both clients and therapists, the issues people bring to the clinical context, and their resources for coping and problem solving.

El genograma es una forma gráfica de organizar la masa de información reunida durante una evaluación familiar y de hallar pautas en el sistema familiar total.

Sin embargo, hasta ahora, se ha utilizado de modo poco estructurado y tanto las hipótesis generadas por los supuestos fundamentales cuanto los resultados derivados del uso clínico han sido confusos. Los autores han remediado esa situación al presentar un formato uniformado para la construcción del genograma y señalar los principios que sustentan su interpretación y aplicación. El texto cobra vida para el lector en los genogramas de familias famosas, como las de Sigmund Freud, Margaret Mead, Gregory Bateson, Virginia Woolf, Eugene O'Neill, Jane Fonda, John F. Kennedy y Thomas Jefferson, entre otras. Una vez que los autores han presentado la teoría de los sistemas familiares y explicado las entrevistas sistemáticas, ejemplificando todo con genogramas, pasan a la presentación de las aplicaciones clínicas en la terapia y en la medicina familiar; asimismo exploran nuevas fronteras, en particular el uso de genogramas generados por computadora.

"McGoldrick y Gerson han logrado lo imposible: nos han dado una descripción elaborada y completa sobre cómo reunir, interpretar y utilizar clínicamente la información sobre el proceso familiar que aparece en un genograma bien trazado y, además, han logrado que el libro sea ameno utilizando familias famosas para ilustrar sus presentaciones."
Betty Carter, Directora del Family Institute de Westchester.