Most chapters include Conclusions, Concluding Remarks, and an Introduction. Preface. I. CONCEPTUAL PERSPECTIVES. 1. Overview: The Expanded Family Life Cycle: Individual, Family, and Social Perspectives, Betty Carter and Monica McGoldrick. The Family Life Cycle. The Family as a System Moving through Time. The Individual in the Family and in History. The Vertical and Horizontal Flow of Stress in the Life Cycle. Anxiety and Symptom Development. The Changing Family Life Cycle. The Expanded Family Life Cycle: Individual Development. Contemporary Families. Our Life Cycles Unfold in the Context of the Community of Our Connectedness. The Larger Society. The Changing Structure of Families. Multiculturalism. The Political and Economic System. The American Family of the Future. Clinical Implications: The Multicontextual Framework. Assessing Individual Development. Assessing the Immediate Family Household(s). Assessing the Extended Family. Assessing the Family's Community and Social Connections. Assessing the Impact on Clients Hierarchy and Power Inequality in the Larger Social Structures of Society. A Method of Including the Sociocultural Context in Family Therapy. 2. Self in Context: The Individual Life Cycle in Systemic Perspective, Monica McGoldrick and Betty Carter. Redefining the Dimensions of Human Development. Developing a Self in Context. The Myths of Complete Autonomy and Self-Determination. Developing a Mature Interdependent Self. It Takes a Village. Gendered Development: From Adam's Rib. Developing a Self in a Nonaffirming Environment. Our Multiple Intelligences. The Connected Self. Countering Unequal Gender, Class, Cultural, and Racial Socialization. The Individual Life Cycle in Context. The "Slings and Arrows" as Individual, Family, and Community Intersect. Developing an Autonomous and Emotionally Connected Self. 3. History, Genograms, and the Family Life Cycle: Freud in Context, Monica McGoldrick. Using Genograms to Track Family History through the Family Life Cycle. Courtship and Marriage of Freud's Parents: The Joining of Families. The Transition to Parenthood and Families with Young Children. Families with Adolescents. Families at Midlife: Launching Children and Moving on. Marriage: The Next Generation. Parenthood: The Next Generation. Families in Later Life. 4. Culture and the Family Life Cycle, Paulette Moore Hines, Nydia Garcia Preto, Monica McGoldrick, Rhea Almeida, and Susan Weltman. Life Cycle Stages. African American Families. Latino Families. Irish Families. Asian Indian Families. Jewish Families. 5. Social Class and the Family Life Cycle, Jodie Kliman and William Madsen. Understanding Social Class. Class Influences on the Family Life Cycle: Challenges and Possibilities. Three Families. Therapeutic Implications of the Intersection of Class and the Family Life Cycle. 6. Women and the Family Life Cycle, Monica McGoldrick. Women's Changing Life Cycle Roles. Women and Education. Women and Work. Women in Families. Women in the Middle: Women and Caretaking. Women's Exclusion from Power under the Law and Societal Expectations. Women and Marriage. Beco
