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| About the Author | |
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| Contributors | |
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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Getting Acquainted with the Family | |
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| Exploring the Family Structure | |
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| What Is a Family? | |
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| The Family Life Cycles | |
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| Techniques for Focusing on the Family | |
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| Self-Exploration: Discovering Your Family Life Space | |
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| Self-Exploration: Using the Jack | |
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| Family Concepts--A Systems Perspective | |
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| Individuation | |
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| Parents' Socioemotional Investment in Children: Precursors to Successful Individuation and Separation | |
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| Theories of Individuation | |
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| Generational Boundaries, Closeness, and Role Behaviors | |
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| Individuation As a Lifelong Process | |
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| Self-Exploration: Individuation | |
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| Separation | |
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| Infancy and Early Childhood | |
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| Middle Childhood and Early Adolescence | |
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| Late Adolescence and Leaving Home | |
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| Divorce and Joint Custody | |
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| Parental Death and a Child's Grief | |
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| Self-Exploration: Separations | |
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| Cutoffs | |
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| The Concept of Cutting Off | |
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| The Painful Process of Cutting Off | |
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| Reconstructing the Relationship | |
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| Developmental Timing | |
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| When Are Cutoffs Beneficial? | |
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| Self-Exploration: Family Cutoffs | |
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| Triangles | |
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| Vulnerability and Self-Protection | |
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| The Universal Triangle: Father/Mother/Child | |
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| Dysfunctional Triangles | |
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| Triangles and Family Types | |
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| Recent Research on Triangular Effects | |
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| Self-Exploration: Family Triangles | |
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| Rituals | |
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| Types of Rituals | |
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| Positive Aspects of the Ritual | |
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| How Family Rituals Evolve and Develop | |
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| Altering Rituals and Establishing New Ones | |
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| Rituals and the Family Life Cycle | |
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| Self-Exploration: Family Rituals | |
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| Secrets | |
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| Kinds of Family Secrets | |
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| Adaptive versus Maladaptive Secrets | |
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| Self-Exploration: Family Secrets | |
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| Multigenerational Effects | |
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| Patterns of Multigenerational Transmission | |
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| The Family Legacy | |
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| Family Myths | |
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| Appreciating One's Multigenerational Heritage | |
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| Self-Exploration: Multigenerational Effects | |
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| Networks and Ecosystems | |
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| Networks and In-Laws | |
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| Networks and Childhood Resiliency | |
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| Zones of Intimacy | |
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| The Importance of Networks | |
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| Networks and Elderly People | |
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| Networks and Black Americans | |
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| Using--and Not Using--Networks | |
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| Self-Exploration: Networking | |
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| Family Concepts--Ecological Stressors | |
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| Family Resiliency and Poverty | |
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| Poverty-Associated Risks | |
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| The Resilience Model | |
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| Multifamily Groups | |
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| Professional Consultation and Training | |
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| Self-Exploration: Family Resiliency and Poverty | |
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| Chronic Illness in Children: Stressors and Family Coping Strategies | |
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| Prevalence and Nature of Psychological Disorders | |
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| The Bad News About Prevalence | |
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| The Good News About Prevalence | |
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| A Family Systems Framework for Understanding Chronic Illness | |
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| Illness Demands | |
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| Family System Resources and Family System Dynamics | |
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| Clinical Assessment of Family Meanings: The Meaning of Illness Evolves | |
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| A Treatment Model for Medical Family Therapy: Strategies for Chronic Illness | |
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| A Medical Family Therapy Toolbox | |
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| Self-Exploration: Chronic Illness | |
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| Adoption and Infertility | |
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| Types of Adoption | |
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| Normative Processes and Developmental Issues of Adoptive Families | |
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| Transracial Adoptions | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Self-Exploration: Are We Ready to Adopt a Child? | |
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| Family Concepts--A Cognitive Perspective | |
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| Communication Styles | |
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| Individual Communication Styles | |
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| Spousal Communication | |
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| Communicating Intimately | |
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| Parental Communication | |
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| The "Ka" Solution: New Terms for Stepfamilies and the New Times | |
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| Self-Exploration: Family Types | |
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| Self-Exploration: Parenting Style | |
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| Self-Exploration: Intimacy | |
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| Problem Solving | |
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| Strategies for Reducing Conflict | |
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| Hostility and Intimacy | |
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| Using Fights to Advantage | |
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| Problem Solving and Problem Behaviors in Children | |
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| Power and Problem Solving | |
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| Self-Exploration: Problem Solving | |
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| Family Productivity | |
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| Provider Needs | |
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| Child Care and Child Socialization | |
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| Housework | |
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| Kinskeeping | |
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| Therapeutic Needs | |
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| Recreational Needs | |
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| Sexual Needs | |
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| Summary | |
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| Self-Exploration: Productivity | |
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| Family Concepts--A Sibling Perspective | |
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| Birth Order | |
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| Apparent Effects of Birth Order | |
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| Problems in Identifying Birth Order Effects | |
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| The Large Family | |
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| Birth Order and Marriage Partners | |
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| Self-Exploration: Birth Order | |
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| Sibling Relationships | |
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| Sibling Solidarity | |
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| Fervent Sibling Loyalty | |
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| Sibling Rivalry and Tensions | |
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| Deidentification | |
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| Identification | |
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| Self-Exploration: Sibling Relationships | |
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| Family Concepts--A Social Psychological Perspective | |
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| Attribution | |
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| Patterns of Attribution | |
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| Factors Affecting Internal versus External Attributions | |
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| Factors Affecting Attribution Style | |
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| Complex Attributions and Narrative Therapy | |
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| Self-Exploration: Attribution | |
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| Equity Theory | |
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| The Theory of Family Equity | |
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| Equity and Family Roles | |
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| Developing an Equity Pattern | |
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| Distribution of Power Between Marital Partners | |
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| Power Allocation Between Parents and Children | |
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| Self-Exploration: Equity | |
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| Reactance | |
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| Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary | |
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| Reactance versus Compliance | |
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| A Matter of Proportion | |
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| Role Boundaries and Coping Styles | |
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| Intergenerational Issues | |
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| Individual Differences and Psychological Reactance | |
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| Reactance and Paradoxical Interventions | |
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| Resistance and Reactance in Family Therapy | |
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| Helping Others and Accepting Favors | |
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| Self-Exploration: Reactance | |
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| Cultural Influences on the Family | |
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| The Changing Emphasis of Parenting: From Discipline Skills to Social Activism | |
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| Marketing and Materialism | |
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| Technology and Family Life Education | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Self-Exploration: Effects of American Culture on the Family | |
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| Spirituality | |
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| The Importance of Spirituality and Religion in Family Therapy and Child-Centered Presenting Problems | |
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| Assessment | |
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| Treatment and Prevention | |
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| Ethical and Professional Dilemmas and Guidelines | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Self-Exploration: Draw a Spiritual Flower | |
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| Resources | |
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| Author Index | |
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| Subject Index | |