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This book focuses on societal changes that have had significant impact on how couples and families function and the complicated issues they face in today's world. Addressing emergent areas that are not well covered elsewhere, this book explores emerging relationship trends and shifting values, dynamics, and expectations that influence and characterized couples and families today. Covering such areas as diverse family types (e.g., LGBTQ families, four and five generation families, families with an international adoptee, postpartum disorders), impact of societal dynamics on couples and families (e.g., relocation and finances, family businesses, political conflicts), new practice trends (e.g., use of psychedelics in couples therapy, incorporation of neuropsychological evaluations for neurosurgery decision-making, innovative primary care practice models) and more, this volume brings the practice of working with couples and families completely up to date. Each chapter is written by an expert(s) in a particular area and includes helpful advice for couple family psychology/therapy practitioners and students. Researchers will benefit from exposure to issues that merit further serious study.
List of contents
Chapter 1. Lilli Friedland, PhD, ABPP Evolving Identities of Family and Self in Times of Turbulence.- Chapter 2. Alan Groveman, PhD, ABPP The Use of Psychedelics in Couples Therapy.- Chapter 3. Florence W. Kaslow, PhD, ABPP Four and Five Generation Families: A Relatively New Phenomenon.- Chapter 4. Michele Harway, PhD, ABPP - Understanding Postpartum Disorders and their Impact on the Family.- Chapter 5. Laurie Plitcha Rothman, MD, ABFM, ABOMS Contemporary Changes and Issues in Primary Care Medical Practice: Multifactorial Analysis of How Primary Care Has Changed in the 21st Century and How it Affects Patients and Physicians.- Chapter 6. Yolanda C. León, PsyD, APBdN, Brianalysse Nicolena Cedeño, BA The Interface Between Relational Family Dynamics, Interventional Neurosurgery, and Neuropsychology.- Chapter 7. Mark I. Sirkin, PhD - Partners in Time: Multigenerational Family Businesses in the 21st Century.- Chapter 8. Nadine Kaslow, PhD, ABPP, Kallio Hunnicuut-Ferguson, PhD, ABPP, Samantha Patton, PhD, ABPP Navigating Love Across the Political Spectrum.- Chapter 9. Michael Broder, PhD, Arlene Goldman, PhD Twenty-First Century Relationship Trends and Norms in Psychotherapy.- Chapter 10. Florence W. Kaslow, PhD, ABPP Handling Couples Issues Pertaining to Relocation and Finances.- Chapter 11. Karyne Beth Wilner, Psy.D. The Rewards and Challenges of International Adoption.- Chapter 12. Florence W. Kaslow, PhD, ABPP Summation and Epilogue.
Summary
This book focuses on societal changes that have had significant impact on how couples and families function and the complicated issues they face in today's world. Addressing emergent areas that are not well covered elsewhere, this book explores emerging relationship trends and shifting values, dynamics, and expectations that influence and characterized couples and families today. Covering such areas as diverse family types (e.g., LGBTQ families, four and five generation families, families with an international adoptee, postpartum disorders), impact of societal dynamics on couples and families (e.g., relocation and finances, family businesses, political conflicts), new practice trends (e.g., use of psychedelics in couples therapy, incorporation of neuropsychological evaluations for neurosurgery decision-making, innovative primary care practice models) and more, this volume brings the practice of working with couples and families completely up to date. Each chapter is written by an expert(s) in a particular area and includes helpful advice for couple family psychology/therapy practitioners and students. Researchers will benefit from exposure to issues that merit further serious study.
