Normal Family Processes, Third Edition

Froma Walsh, MSW, PhD, is a Professor in the School of Social Service Administration and the Department of Psychiatry, Pritzker School of Medicine, and Co-Director of the Center for Family Health at the University of Chicago. A member of the Board of Directors of [i]Family Process[/i], she is a past editor of the [i]Journal of Marital and Family Therapy[/i], past president of the American Family Therapy Academy, and the recipient of numerous awards for her distinguished contributions to the field of mental health. Dr. Walsh's authored or edited publications include [i]Strengthening Family Resilience[/i] and [i]Spiritual Resources in Family Therapy[/i].

Part I: Overview. Walsh, Changing Families in a Changing World: Reconstructing Family Normality. Walsh, Clinical Views of Family Normality, Health, and Dysfunction: From Deficit to Strengths Perspective. Part II: Varying Family Forms and Challenges. Fraenkel, Contemporary Two-Parent Families: Navigating Work and Family Challenges. Greene, E. R. Anderson, Hetherington, Forgatch, DeGarmo, Risk and Resilience after Divorce. C. M. Anderson, The Diversity, Strength, and Challenges of Single-Parent Households. E. B. Visher, J. S. Visher, Pasley, Remarriage Families and Step-Parenting. Laird, Lesbian and Gay Families. Rampage, Eovaldi, Ma, Weigel-Foy, Adoptive Families. Part III: Cultural Dimensions in Family Functioning. McGoldrick, Culture: A Challenge to Concepts of Normality. Boyd-Franklin, Race, Class, and Poverty. Falicov, Immigrant Family Processes. Haddock, Zimmerman, Lyness, Changing Gender Norms: Transitional Dilemmas. Walsh, Pryce, The Spiritual Dimension of Family Life. Part IV: Developmental Perspectives on Family Functioning. McGoldrick, Carter, The Family Life Cycle. Walsh, Family Resilience: Recovery and Growth Out of Crisis and Challenge. P. A. Cowan, C. P. Cowan, Normal Family Transitions, Normal Family Process, and Healthy Child Development. Rolland, Mastering Family Challenges in Illness and Disability. Part V: Healthy Couple and Family Processes: Mapping the Complexity. Driver, Tabares, Shapiro, Nahm, Gottman, Interactional Patterns in Marital Success and Failure. Olson, Gorall, Circumplex Model of Marital and Family Systems. Beavers, Hampson, Measuring Family Competence: The Beavers Systems Model. Epstein, Ryan, Bishop, Miller, Keitner, The McMaster Model: A View of Healthy Family Functioning. Towers, Spotts, Reiss, Unraveling the Complexity of Genetic and Environmental Influences on Family Relationships. Part VI: Social Policy Perspectives: Societal Constructions of Family Health. Hartman, Family Social Policy: Dilemmas, Controversies, and Opportunities.