Stress, Coping, and Resiliency in Children and Families

by Hetherington, E. Mavis; Blechman, Elaine A.

• ISBN13: 9780805817102
• ISBN10: 0805817107
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-06-01
• Publisher: Lawrence Erlbau

Summary

Concern with stress and coping has a long history in biomedical, psychological and sociological research. The inadequacy of simplistic models linking stressful life events and adverse physical and psychological outcomes was pointed out in the early 1980s in a series of seminal papers and books. The issues and theoretical models discussed in this work shaped much of the subsequent research on this topic and are reflected in the papers in this volume. The shift has been away from identifying associations between risks and outcomes to a focus on factors and processes that contribute to diversity in response to risks. Based on the Family Research Consortium's fifth summer institute, this volume focuses on stress and adaptability in families and family members. The papers explore not only how a variety of stresses influence family functioning but also how family process moderates and mediates the contribution of individual and environmental risk and protective factors to personal adjustment. They reveal the complexity of current theoretical models, research strategies and analytic approaches to the study of risk, resiliency and vulnerability along with the central role risk, family process and adaptability play in both normal development and childhood psychopathology.

Table of Contents

Introduction and Overview	p. vii
Thinking About Risk and Resilience in Families	p. 1
Stress, Parenting, and Adolescent Psychopathology in Nondivorced and Stepfamilies: a Within-Family Perspective	p. 39
Divorce and Boys' Adjustment Problems: Two Paths with a Single Model	p. 67
Family Support, Coping, and Competence	p. 107
Risk and Resiliency in Nonclinical Young Children: the Georgia Longitudinal Study	p. 135
The Timing of Childbearing, Family Structure, and the Role Responsibilities of Aging Black Women	p. 155
Family Wages, Family Processes, and Youth Competence in Rural Married African American Families	p. 173
Attention-the Shuttle Between Emotion and Cognition: Risk, Resiliency, and Physiological Bases	p. 189
Author Index	p. 229
Subject Index	p. 239
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