| Description |
xviii, 473 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Families coping with change: a conceptual overview / Patrick C. McKenry and Sharon J. Price -- Conceptualizing parenting stress and family stress theory / Gary W. Peterson and Charles B. Hennon -- Aging families and stress / Christine A. Price -- Death, dying, and grief in families / Colleen I. Murray, Katalin Toth, and Samantha A. Clinkenbeard -- Improving physical health through family intervention / Thomas L. Campbell -- Violence, abuse, and neglect in families and intimate relationships / Richard J. Gelles and Mary M. Cavanaugh -- Families coping with alcohol and substance abuse / Judith Fischer and Kevin P. Lyness -- Mental illness and families / Angie M. Schock and Stephen M. Gavazzi -- Economic stress and families / Suzanne Batholomae and Jonathan Fox -- Divorce as a family stressor / Mark A. Fine, Lawrence H. Ganong, and David H. Demo -- Remarriage and re-coupling: a stress perspective / Katrina McClintic Pann and Margaret Crosbie-Burnett -- Families facing the challenges of diversity / Katherine R. Allen -- Adaptation among immigrant families: resources and barriers / Kevin Ray Bush, Stephanie A. Bohon, and Hyoun K. Kim -- Relationship stress in couples: situations involving infidelity, infertility, and imprisonment / Randal D. Day -- Everyday hassles and family stress / Heather M. Helms and David H. Demo -- External trauma and families / Charles R. Figley and Michael Barnes -- Families, stress, and intervention / Debra A. Madden-Derdich and Melissa J. Herzog |
| 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." |
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"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."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Subject |
Families -- United States.
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Social problems -- United States.
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Social change -- United States.
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| Author |
McKenry, Patrick C.
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Price, Sharon J.
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| LC no. |
2004028631 |
| ISBN |
0761988718 paperback acid-free paper |
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