Firmly grounded in family psychology, Psychological Perspectives for the Chicano and Latino Family explores key issues affecting the psychology and well-being of Chicano and Latino families, the fastest growing ethnic group in the United States.

The book provides lifecycle perspective and analyzes Latino families through diverse theoretical models and foregrounds gender and sexuality as important components of being and experience. It gives readers an overview of major issues affecting Latino families today. It reviews theories that explain how migration and its legacy impact family patterns and highlights how various factors influence gender roles, parenting styles, and power structures within families across generations.