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| View Larger Image | The Expanded Family Life Cycle: Individual, Family, and Social Perspectives (An Allyn & Bacon Classics Edition) (with MyHelpingLab) (3rd Edition) | Hardcoverby Betty Carter (Author), Monica McGoldrick (Author)
| List Price: | $129.00 | |
| | Binding: | Hardcover | | Publisher: | Allyn & Bacon | | Edition: | 3rd Edition | | Page Count: | 560 Pages | | Publication Date: | December 11, 2005 | | Sales Rank: | 356,624th |
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EDITORIAL REVIEWS |
Product Description
Now featured in a Classics Edition with a new Foreword by Donald Boch, The Expanded Family Life Cycle integrates theory and current research with clinical guidelines and cases by two of the most-respected authors, teachers, and clinicians in the field of family therapyACarter and Monica McGoldrick. This classic Family Therapy text provides "and more comprehensive way to think about human development and the life cycle," reflecting changes in society away from orientation toward the nuclear family, toward a more diverse and inclusive definition of "family." This expanded view of the family includes the impact of issues at multiple levels of the human system: the individual, family households, the extended family, the community, the cultural group, and the larger society. The text features a ground-breaking integration of individual male and female development in systemic context; our increasing racial, ethnic, and cultural diversity; the emergence of men's movements and issues; the growing visibility of lesbian and gay families; and the neglected area of social class. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 2.5 based on 13 reviews)
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Expanded Family Life Cycle:Individual, Family and Social Perspectives by Jemamala (Michigan)  5 Stars
October 09, 2008
This is without a doubt the best textbook I have ever read. It reads easily, is very informative, thought provoking, and rings true over and over again.
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Totally biased by Heather (MN USA)  1 Stars
March 17, 2008
If I could have rated this book zero or less, I would have done so. This book is required for a grad school course I am now taking. I am struggling to read each chapter because of the biased perspective of the authors. This book SHOULD NOT be required reading for any course!
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Looking hard for the merit by zinotrope (San Diego) 1 Stars
March 07, 2008
I had to read this book as part of my grad school program, but found every chapter a chore. As has been said before, the authors' political bias and agenda permeates nearly every page, and the chapters that aren't directly written by McGoldrick and Carter, although more promising, are still etched with this harmful bias. Having read other writings by McGoldrick especially, I was not entirely surprised by this bias, but to find it so codified and oppressive in a textbook is inexcusable.
Another huge complaint is how dated the book is. Yes it received a new edition, but most of the academic references are no more recent than 1997 or so, and the cultural references are so horribly out of date (at least 2 references to the Dan Quayle/Murphy Brown controversy in a 2005 book anyone?) that its usefulness is in question. It is unfortunate that there is apparently no better textbook dealing with the family life cycle than this angry, biased, pessimistic, closed-minded and out-dated textbook. There is some good information scattered here and there, but I think most critical thinkers will be working so hard to see it through the political haze they will have a hard time finding it.
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The Old Testament is less DOGMATIC. by Montgomery Nigma (St Louis, MO) 1 Stars
October 22, 2007
This disappointing book
is pretentious and
transparently biased.
I prefer a textbook
I can learn from and trust,
to one where I find myself tolerating
stale slogans and stereotypes.
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racist, biased, and lacking in helpful information by litsa3 (Baltimore, MD) 1 Stars
December 31, 2006
The lack of practical, usable information in this book was unbelievable. Maybe if you have never, ever, in any way considered these issues it would be helpful, but I doubt it, as there was nothing that delved beyond surface, common sense information. The gross overgenderalizations about race and culture were offesive and shocking coming from people in the field. The only thing I took from the book was a heightened awareness of the judgemental biases of people -- even those claiming to be fighting against those things.
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