Treating the Changing Family: Handling Normative and Unusual Events (Wiley Series in Couples and Family Dynamics and Treatment)

This timely new book looks at how non-normative events (adoption, addiction, trauma, long-term illness), nontraditional family constellations (single parent families, gay and lesbian families), and modern socio-cultural issues (violence, AIDS, aging, and ethnicity) impact on family functioning. In this important volume, leading clinicians and theorists re-examine the family, and provide practical advice for therapists treating today's families.