Provides a comprehensive, integrated look at the individual and family context of human development

KEY TOPICS: Human development and the expanding family life cycle, effects of vertical and horizontal life stressors on families and individuals, spirituality and education as sources of resilience, psychology, health care, clinical practice, family centered practice, families in cultural context, genograms, family time line, family chronology, LGBT life cycle, single adults, couples, children, adolescents, aging, traditional womanhood and manhood redefined and reinvented

MARKET Guides clinicians (psychologists, social workers, counselors, nurses, medical practitioners) in working with patients or clients in mental health, healthcare, or social service settings