The Expanding Family Life Cycle: Individual, Family, and Social Perspectives (Mysocialworklab)

It’s a bit outdated but nonetheless, the information is beneficial. Broken up into easy chapters and segments, following along and learning from it is very simple.

I first of all, this is an amazing book, but please do not buy it for Kendall. The formatting is terrible on Kindle devices, and almost impossible to read.That being said, this is one of the most exhaustive books on family life cycles, I can imagine ever having been written. It’s not only well written, it’s easy to comprehend and is a great reference.Even though the format on Kindle was difficult, I still found the book, engaging enough that I read it in a week’s time. Very helpful for clinicians.

This book has a lot to offer. It's socially moving in the right direction. The next edition would be improved by including transgender authors who could speak with authority on the trans experience.Also, the binding isn't great and fell apart after two weeks of reading.

While I don't expect textbook authors to be particularly good at making material interesting or engaging, I do expect them to be mostly impartial/impersonal. This text reads like a conversation with an individual who views older theoretical frameworks with disdain, and is concerned more with reinforcing and supporting their own perspective than with explaining how theory has changed. It's not the place of a textbook to tell a reader whether a paper is "wonderful", whether a theory is ridiculous, or making broad assertions about the nature of education without any supporting sources.I tend to agree with a number of the opinions/perspectives expressed, which makes it all the more disappointing. Much of what they express makes sense intuitively and can be reasonably asserted, but is left unverified and unsupported, whilst nearly any criticism of other perspectives appears to be thoroughly supported (I'll leave it to other readers to determine whether those sources actually support what is said). It gives the impression of having an agenda, which is out of place for a text required for coursework.In other words, the glaring issue with this text is its identity. I'm not sure if the authors meant to create a textbook, or a persuasive essay. As such, I'm finding myself having to read and re-read basic information so as to make sure I'm not inadvertently carrying their opinions over into my own evaluations/coursework. Thank goodness for "renting" kindle books - I don't want this as a permanent addition to my library, nor would I be pleased if I had paid the full price for it.

Read it for graduate school, good resource for those going into this profession

It is a thorough account of the family life cycle. The text represents up to date research and a wide variety of authors and viewpoints. It is an excellent text. The only problem I have with the text is that quizzes are referenced at the end of certain sections, but there are no quizzes to be found. It would be nice to have the quizzes on hand as well as the end of the chapter reviews.

This is my first book review. I am appalled my professor chose this book to assign for our class. I am a first year graduate student in an MFT program. This is my second MA degree. I have just starting reading this book and hopefully the other contributing authors will be better but the main authors writing the first chapter are clearly pushing their own social/political agenda and it's way, way over the top. They come off as arrogant and honestly incredibly ignorant about the human experience. They seem only able to discuss human beings in terms of feminist theories of "intersectional oppression". It reads more like a social justice propaganda piece than what I would expect a graduate school textbook to sound like. Thank goodness I can read through the lines and see the ideology being shoved down my throat but unfortunately many students will see these authors are the "experts" which they present themselves to be. Of course there are relevant and important conversations, information and perspectives to be shared in regards to diverse life experiences but this book actually leaves out a great deal of other views, perspectives, science, factual data, current analysis and diverse views in their aim to push their particular ideas about how the whole human species needs to be changed go meet their fantasy, although hypocritical and unrealistic, views. I guess I will have to suffer through reading this but it will give me the chance to develop a better critique of it. I hope there is a much better text on the topic I could recommend to the professor.

Great book for Counseling majors! The authors definitely are realistic about social issues of today and what is going on. They do not hold back! So refreshing for a graduate study

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