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English
Guilford Press
18 March 2025
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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Imprint:   Guilford Press
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 229mm,  Width: 152mm, 
ISBN:   9781462557028
ISBN 10:   1462557023
Pages:   312
Publication Date:  
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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

Todd M. Edwards, PhD, LMFT, is Professor and Chair of the Marital and Family Therapy Program at the University of San Diego (USD). He is a Clinical Fellow and Approved Supervisor in the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy and Editor of the International Journal of Systemic Therapy. In addition to his work at USD, Dr. Edwards has a private practice, where he works with individuals, couples, and families, and is a health coach through the RELINK program at the University of California, San Diego. JoEllen Patterson, PhD, LMFT, is Professor in the Marital and Family Therapy Program at the University of San Diego. She is also Associate Clinical Professor of Family Medicine at the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine. Dr. Patterson received a Rotary International Scholarship to work at Cambridge University, as well as Fulbright Awards to work in Norway, Hong Kong, New Zealand, and Canada. She has published several books and has served on the editorial boards of leading family therapy journals. Her global work includes initiatives in Jordan and Ecuador. James L. Griffith, MD, is Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology and former Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health at the George Washington University (GW) School of Medicine and Health Sciences, where he joined the faculty in 1994. As a psychiatric educator, Dr. Griffith has helped develop GW's psychiatry residency program into a national leader in refugee mental health, human rights advocacy, and global mental health research. Dually trained in psychiatry and neurology, he teaches psychiatry residents a curriculum that integrates humanistic psychiatry with psychopharmacology.

Reviews for Guiding Families through Transitions: A Life Cycle Approach to Clinical Practice

""In this outstanding book, Edwards, Patterson, and Griffith bring their scholarship and clinical expertise to offer a current, novel perspective on the family life cycle, a foundational topic in family therapy. Questioning the formulaic notion that families experience developmental stages and transitions in predictable ways, every chapter offers a biopsychosocial and systemic approach that informs conceptually, presents evidence-based resources, and provides guidelines for clinical work. This book will become the 'go-to' text to teach master's- and doctoral-level students in family therapy, and will be useful for clinical supervisors. It covers both evolving universal issues and the specific intersectionalities of LGBTQ individuals, intercultural couples, and other diverse family forms today. Readers will be touched by and learn from the many moving stories of clients navigating the inevitable relational changes that accompany family development.""--Celia J. Falicov, PhD, Department of Family Medicine, University of California, San Diego-


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