Learn how contemporary families respond to and handle common stressful life circumstances. Integrating research, theory, and applications, Families & Change: Coping With 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. Editors Christine A. Price, Kevin R. Bush, and Sharon J. Price, cover timely topics such as resiliency, LGBT families, and military families to name just a few.
All families change over time.
All families face problems, crises, transitions, and change. Some problems - marital difficulties, physical illness, work/family role stress, and death - are fairly predictable. Other problems such as divorce, homelessness,...
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Pp. 193- 218 in The Changing American Family and Public Policy, edited by Andrew J. Cherlin. Washington, DC: Urban Institute Press. ... Furstenberg, Frank F., Jr., Richard Lincoln, and Jane Menken. 1981. Teenage Sexuality, Pregnancy ...
Thus , they reject talk about a separate or inferior culture and different black family functioning.5 Another major ... 6 The 1980s finds more scholars attempting to take a new look at black families , to reconcile the conflicting views ...
A guide for students and practitioners interested in exploring paradoxical and strategic interventions from a systems perspective, this book provides first-hand documentation of Papps rich repertoire of clinical interventions, the results ...
The chapters in this volume were developed as a follow-up to the Summer Institute entitled "Continuity and Change: Family Structure and Process" conducted by the second Family Research Consortium.
In his captivating and contemporary style, Pastor James MacDonald will challenge readers to avoid devastating complacency and become proactive in loving their families.
The essays in this volume challenge this myth and provide dramatic revisions of simplistic notions about change in the American family.