Family Transitions

by Cowan; Philip A.

• ISBN13: 9780805807844
• ISBN10: 0805807845
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1991-01-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This volume, the result of the second annual Summer Institute sponsored by the Family Research Consortium, focuses on family transitions--both normative and non-normative. The subject of family transitions has been a central concern of the consortium largely because studies of families in motion help to highlight mechanisms leading to adaptation and dysfunction. This text represents a collective effort to understand the techniques individuals and families employ to adapt to the pressing issues they encounter along their life course.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Perspectives	p. 1
Individual and Family Life Transitions: A Proposal for a New Definition	p. 3
References	p. 26
Family Transitions, Cycles, and Social Change	p. 31
References	p. 54
Family Transitions, Stress, and Health	p. 59
References	p. 73
Normative and Nonnormative Transitions	p. 77
Becoming a Family: Marriage, Parenting, and Child Development	p. 79
Acknowledgments	p. 104
Acknowledgments	p. 105
Effective Parenting During the Early Adolescent Transition	p. 111
References	p. 159
The Role of Individual Differences and Family Relationships in Children's Coping with Divorce and Remarriage	p. 190
Antisocial Parents: Unskilled and Vulnerable	p. 195
Effective Communication: Enabling Multiproblem Families to Change	p. 219
References	p. 244
Metaphors and Models	p. 245
Chaos and Regulated Change in Families: A Metaphor for the Study of Transitions	p. 247
References	p. 271
A Soft Models Approach to Family Transitions	p. 273
Appendix	p. 297
Acknowledgments	p. 297
Appendix	p. 299
Author Index	p. 303
Subject Index	p. 315
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