Overview. Changing families in a changing world : reconstructing family normality / Froma Walsh -- Clinical views of family normality, health, and dysfunction : from deficit to strengths perspective / Froma Walsh -- Varying family forms and challenges. Contemporary two-parent families : navigating work and family challenges / Peter Fraenkel -- Risk and resilience after divorce / Shannon M. Greene, Edward Anderson, E. Mavis Hetherington, Marion S. Forgatch, David S. DeGarmo -- The Diversity, strength, and challenges of single-parent households / Carol Anderson -- Remarriage families and stepparenting / Emily B. Visher, John S. Visher, Kay Pasley -- Lesbian and gay families / Joan Laird -- Adoptive families / Cheryl Rampage, Marina Eovaldi, Cassandra Ma, Catherine Weigel-Foy -- Cultural dimensions in family functioning. Culture : a challenge to concepts of normality / Monica McGoldrick -- Race, class, and poverty / Nancy Boyd-Franklin -- Immigrant family processes / Celia Jaes Falicov -- Changing gender norms : transitional dilemmas / Shelley A. Haddock, Toni Schindler Zimmerman, Kevin P. Lyness -- The Spiritual dimensions of family life / Froma Walsh, Julia Pryce -- Developmental perspectives on family functioning. The Family life cycle / Monica McGoldrick, Betty Carter -- Family resilience : strengths forged through adversity / Froma Walsh -- Normative family transitions, normal family process, and healthy child development / Philip A. Cowan, Carolyn Pape Cowan -- Mastering family challenges in illness and disability / John S. Rolland -- Healthy couple and family processes : mapping the complexity. Interactional patterns in marital success and failure : Gottman laboratory studies / Janice Driver, Amber Tabares, Alyson Shapiro, Eun Young Nahm, John M. Gottman -- Circumplex model of marital and family systems / David H. Olson, Dean M. Gorall -- Measuring family competence : the Beavers systems model / W. Robert Beavers, Robert B. Hampson -- The McMasters model : a view of healthy functioning / Nathan B. Epstein, Christine E. Ryan, Duane S. Bishop, Ivan W. Miller, Gabor I. Keitner -- Unraveling the complexity of genetic and environmental influences on family relationships / Hilary Towers, Erica Spotts, David Reiss -- Social policy perspectives : social constructions of family health. Family policy : dilemmas, controversies, and opportunities / Ann Hartman.