Full Description
Integrating research, theory, and applications, Families & ChangeWith Stressful Events and Transitions, Fifth Edition offers students an in-depth understanding of family change. Each chapter of this bestselling text presents the latest scholarship from leaders in the field on family change and stressors as well as resources for intervention. Timely topics such as resiliency, LGBT families, and military families are addressed.
Contents
Part IChapter 1: Families Coping With Change: A Conceptual Overview - Kevin Bush, Christine A. Price, Sharon J. Price (Patrick C. McKenry Posthumously)The Study of Family Stress and ChangeFamily Stress TheoryABC-X ModelPart II: General Family StressChapter 2: Everyday Hassles and Family Relationships - Heather Helms, Natalie D. Hengstebeck, David DemoWhat Are Everyday Hassles?Methods for Studying Everyday Hassles and Family RelationshipsUnderstanding the Links Between Everyday Hassles and Family Well-BeingIntervention: Toward a New Family-Responsive Policy AgendaPart III: Developmental Family FormsChapter 3: Conceptualizing Parental Stress with Family Stress Theory - Gary PetersonPragmatic Realism: Conceptions of Parental StressConceptualizing Family Stress Theory and Parental Stress:Stressors or Stressor Events for Parents: Factor AParents' Recovery Factors: Resources, Coping, and Adaptation: Factor BParental Definitions: Factor CChapter 4: Families with Special Needs: A Journey from Coping and Adaptation to Resilience and Hope - Briana Nelson Goff, Jessica High, Adam Cless, Kelsey Koblitz, Natira Staats, Nicole SpringerDefinition of TermsTheoretical Frameworks: Families with Special Needs as Complex SystemsExternal Context: Resources and Support Systems in Coping, Adaptation and Building ResilienceImplications for Research and Professional PracticeChapter 5: LGBQ-Parent Families: Development and Functioning in Context - Abbie GoldbergComing Out and Being OutSame-Sex RelationshipsBecoming Parents, Forming FamiliesLGBQ-Parent Families: Experiences and ChallengesChapter 6: Stress and Coping in Later Life - Aine Humble, Christine PriceThe Aging FamilyDemographic TrendsStress in Later LifeStressful Events in Later LifeModels of Coping and AdaptationPart IV: Transitional Family FormsChapter 7: Divorce: Variation and Fluidity - David Demo, Mark FineTheoretical PerspectiveHistory and ContextFactors that Predict and Cause DivorceDivorce and Its AftermathInterventionsChapter 8: Stress and Resilience in Stepfamilies Today - Chelsea Garneau, Kay PasleyPrevalence and Demographic Characteristics of StepfamiliesA Family Systems Approach to Stress and Resilience in StepfamiliesStepfamily ResilienceWorking Professionally With StepfamiliesChapter 9: Adaptation Among Immigrant Families: Resources and Barriers - Kevin Ray Bush, Bertranna A. Abrams-Muruthi, Stephanie A. Bohon, Hyoun K. KimImmigrant Families in the United StatesAcculturation and AdaptationCommon Barriers and Stressors Experienced by Immigrant FamiliesCommon Resources and Adaptation Among Immigrant FamiliesLatino, Asian and Afro-Caribbean Immigrant FamiliesChapter 10: The Newest Generation of U.S. Veterans and Their Families - Kyung-Hee Lee, Shelley McDermid WadsworthTheoretical Framework: Life coursePart V: Violence in a Family and Community ContextChapter 11: Promoting Pathways to Resilient Outcomes for Maltreated Children - Margaret Wright, Lucy AllbaughRates of Resilience Among Maltreated ChildrenLongitudinal Studies Examining Resilient Outcomes for Maltreated ChildrenHow Interventions Can Foster Resilience in Maltreated ChildrenInterventions at Specific Levels of the EcosystemInterventions Targeting Multiple SystemsChapter 12: Stress and Coping with Intimate Partner Violence - Lyndal KhawTypes of Intimate Partner ViolenceExplaining Violence by an Intimate PartnerContextual Model of Family StressLeaving Abusive Partners and Postseparation CopingInterventions for IPVChapter 13: Family Responses to School and Community Mass Violence - Amity Noltemeyer, Courtney L. McLaughlin, Mark R. McGowanMass Violence: The ContextTheoretical FrameworkResilience in the Midst of Mass ViolenceImplications for Professionals Working with Families Exposed to Mass Violence PreparednessPart VI: Families Encountering Sickness, Poverty, and DeathChapter 14: Physical and Mental Illness and Family Stress - Jeremy Yorgason, Kevin StottIllness CharacteristicsTheoretical FrameworkWhen a Child is IllWhen a Spouse/Partner is IllWhen Aging Parents Are IllChapter 15: Families Coping with Alcohol and Substance Abuse - Kevin Lyness, Judith FischerChildren and Substance Abuse ProblemsAdolescents and Youth and Substance Abuse ProblemsBidirectional ProcessesIssues in Prevention and TreatmentChapter 16: Economic Stress and Families - Suzanne Bartholomae, Jonathon FoxDefining and Measuring Economic StressEconomic Conditions of the American FamilyMeasures of Family Economic Well-BeingThe Family Economic Stress ModelCoping with Economic StressFamily Financial Planning as a Coping ResourceChapter 17: Death, Dying and Grief in Families - Colleen MurrayEtiology of "Invisible Death" and Its ConsequencesTheories of GrievingFactors Related to Family Adaptation to DeathSpecific Losses
