Expanding Family Life Cycle, The, 5th Edition

Monica McGoldrick, MSW, PhD (h.c.), is the Director of the Multicultural Family Institute and on the Clinical faculty of the Psychiatry at the Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. She has an international reputation as a trainer and author. Her other books include Ethnicity and Family Therapy, Genograms, Living Beyond Loss, Re-Visioning Family Therapy: Race, Culture and Gender in Clinical Practice), Women in Families, and The Genogram Journey: Reconnecting With Your Family.

Nydia Garcia Preto, MSW, L.C.S.W. is the Associate Director at the Multicultural Family Institute in Highland Pk., NJ where she also has a Private Practice. Nydia has been a Visiting Professor at the Rutgers Graduate School of Social Work, and was the Director of the Adolescent Day Hospital, at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. A noted family therapist, author, teacher, and lecturer, she has published and presented nationally on Puerto Rican and Latino families, Latinas, ethnic intermarriage, and families with adolescents. She is Co Editor of Ethnicity and Family Therapy, and of The Expanded Family Life Cycle. She also is a highly respected trainer in the area of Cultural Competence.