Families and Change : Coping with Stressful Events and Transitions

by McKenry, Patrick; Price, Sharon

• ISBN13: 9780761988717
• ISBN10: 0761988718
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-05-05
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc

Summary

Proven successful and effective with students and practitioners through two editions, Families and Change: Coping With Stressful Events and Transitions, Third Edition, presents the vast literature that has emerged in recent years, focusing on how families respond to various transitions and stressful life events. Readers will find this edition more applied, with additional examples and explicit intervention suggestions and strategies. The volume editors and contributing authors to this updated bestseller include highly respected scholars. Each scholar represents a particular area of expertise providing readers with an interdisciplinary approach to family studies.Key FeaturesEnhanced for classroom use. Chapters open with brief introductions, include intervention suggestions, and close with web resources and references.Increased emphasis on resiliency.Added content. Three new chapters on external disasters, everyday hassles, and interventions conclude the book.Revised and updated throughout. All chapters have been thoroughly revised and updated, and a new chapter on relationship stress modifies chapter two from the previous edition emphasizing a more applied focus looking at intimate relationships both within and outside of marriage.Families and Change, Third Edition, is an essential text for upper-division undergraduate and master's students in departments of Human Development & Family Studies, Marriage & Family Therapy, and Sociology & Social Work. McKenry's text is also a valuable tool for professionals and practitioners who work with families across the disciplinary boundaries of family therapy, family psychology, social work, family life education, and nursing

Table of Contents

Families Coping with Problems and Change

A Conceptual Overview Marital Distress

From Complaints to Contempt The Challenges of Parenting Infants and Young Children

Understanding Parental Stress

A Family Perspective Aging and Adaptation

How Families Cope Coping with Death, Dying and Grief in Families

Physical Illness

Challenges to Families Violence, Abuse and Neglect in Families

Family Stress and Substance Abuse

Mental Illness and Families

Economic Stress and Families

Divorce as a Family Stressor

Mark A Fine and Lawrence H Ganong Remarriage and Recoupling

A Stress Perspective Challenges and Experiences of Black-American Families

Immigrant Families and Sources of Stress

Families and the Gay Community

Stressors and Strengths

Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved.