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""In this outstanding book, Edwards, Patterson, and Griffith bring their scholarship and clinical expertise to offer a current, novel perspective on the family life cycle, a foundational topic in family therapy. Questioning the formulaic notion that families experience developmental stages and transitions in predictable ways, every chapter offers a biopsychosocial and systemic approach that informs conceptually, presents evidence-based resources, and provides guidelines for clinical work. This book will become the 'go-to' text to teach master's- and doctoral-level students in family therapy, and will be useful for clinical supervisors. It covers both evolving universal issues and the specific intersectionalities of LGBTQ individuals, intercultural couples, and other diverse family forms today. Readers will be touched by and learn from the many moving stories of clients navigating the inevitable relational changes that accompany family development.""--Celia J. Falicov, PhD, Department of Family Medicine, University of California, San Diego-

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Todd M. Edwards, PhD, LMFT, is Professor and Chair of the Marital and Family Therapy Program at the University of San Diego (USD). He is a Clinical Fellow and Approved Supervisor in the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy and Editor of the International Journal of Systemic Therapy. In addition to his work at USD, Dr. Edwards has a private practice, where he works with individuals, couples, and families, and is a health coach through the RELINK program at the University of California, San Diego. JoEllen Patterson, PhD, LMFT, is Professor in the Marital and Family Therapy Program at the University of San Diego. She is also Associate Clinical Professor of Family Medicine at the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine. Dr. Patterson received a Rotary International Scholarship to work at Cambridge University, as well as Fulbright Awards to work in Norway, Hong Kong, New Zealand, and Canada. She has published several books and has served on the editorial boards of leading family therapy journals. Her global work includes initiatives in Jordan and Ecuador. James L. Griffith, MD, is Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology and former Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health at the George Washington University (GW) School of Medicine and Health Sciences, where he joined the faculty in 1994. As a psychiatric educator, Dr. Griffith has helped develop GW's psychiatry residency program into a national leader in refugee mental health, human rights advocacy, and global mental health research. Dually trained in psychiatry and neurology, he teaches psychiatry residents a curriculum that integrates humanistic psychiatry with psychopharmacology.

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