Families & Change: Coping With Stressful Events and Transitions / Edition 5

Families & Change: Coping With Stressful Events and Transitions / Edition 5

ISBN-10:
1483366758
ISBN-13:
9781483366753
Pub. Date:
01/26/2016
Publisher:
SAGE Publications
ISBN-10:
1483366758
ISBN-13:
9781483366753
Pub. Date:
01/26/2016
Publisher:
SAGE Publications
Families & Change: Coping With Stressful Events and Transitions / Edition 5

Families & Change: Coping With Stressful Events and Transitions / Edition 5

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Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781483366753
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Publication date: 01/26/2016
Edition description: Fifth Edition
Pages: 432
Product dimensions: 7.30(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Christine A. Price is an Associate Professor and Coordinator for the Gerontology Program in the Department of Family and Child Studies at Montclair State University, Montclair, New Jersey. Her primary area of teaching is family gerontology and her scholarly interests emphasize the transitional adjustment and psychosocial experiences of retired women. Her work has been published in several scholarly journals including The International Journal of Aging and Human Development, the Journal of Women and Aging, Family Relations, and The Journal of Ethnographic and Qualitative Research. She earned her Master’s and Ph D in Child and Family Development and Graduate Certificate in Gerontology from The University of Georgia.

Kevin Ray Bush is Associate Dean, Professor of Family Studies and Social Work, and co-director of the Doris Bergen Center for Human Development, Learning and Technology at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. His research interests focus on child and adolescent development in the contexts of family, school, community and culture. He has examined the relationships between parents, teachers, and child and adolescent development within diverse US and international samples. Dr. Bush is also interested in program evaluation, and has conducted evaluations of school, agency and home based child and family intervention programs. Dr. Bush has a Master’s degree in Marriage and Family Therapy from Arizona State University and a Ph D in Human Development and Family Relations from The Ohio State University.

Sharon J. Price is Professor Emerita and former Head of the Department of Child and Family Development at the University of Georgia. She has published extensively in professional journals and coauthored or coedited several books. She won several teaching awards including the Osborne Award, presented by the National Council on Family Relations, and the highest honor for teaching at the University of Georgia, the Josiah Meigs Award. She was active in several professional organizations, serving in many capacities, including President of the National Council on Family Relations, and is a Fellow in NCFR. She earned her Ph D from Iowa State University.

Table of Contents

Part I: Theoretical Foundations
Chapter 1: Families Coping With Change: A Conceptual Overview - Kevin Bush, Christine A. Price, Sharon J. Price (Patrick C. Mc Kenry Posthumously)
The Study of Family Stress and Change
Family Stress Theory
ABC-X Model
Part II: General Family Stress
Chapter 2: Everyday Hassles and Family Relationships - Heather Helms, Natalie D. Hengstebeck, David Demo
What Are Everyday Hassles?
Methods for Studying Everyday Hassles and Family Relationships
Understanding the Links Between Everyday Hassles and Family Well-Being
Intervention: Toward a New Family-Responsive Policy Agenda
Part III: Developmental Family Forms
Chapter 3: Conceptualizing Parental Stress with Family Stress Theory - Gary Peterson
Pragmatic Realism: Conceptions of Parental Stress
Conceptualizing Family Stress Theory and Parental Stress:
Stressors or Stressor Events for Parents: Factor A
Parents’ Recovery Factors: Resources, Coping, and Adaptation: Factor B
Parental Definitions: Factor C
Chapter 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 Springer
Definition of Terms
Theoretical Frameworks: Families with Special Needs as Complex Systems
External Context: Resources and Support Systems in Coping, Adaptation and Building Resilience
Implications for Research and Professional Practice
Chapter 5: LGBQ-Parent Families: Development and Functioning in Context - Abbie Goldberg
Coming Out and Being Out
Same-Sex Relationships
Becoming Parents, Forming Families
LGBQ-Parent Families: Experiences and Challenges
Chapter 6: Stress and Coping in Later Life - Aine Humble, Christine Price
The Aging Family
Demographic Trends
Stress in Later Life
Stressful Events in Later Life
Models of Coping and Adaptation
Part IV: Transitional Family Forms
Chapter 7: Divorce: Variation and Fluidity - David Demo, Mark Fine
Theoretical Perspective
History and Context
Factors that Predict and Cause Divorce
Divorce and Its Aftermath
Interventions
Chapter 8: Stress and Resilience in Stepfamilies Today - Chelsea Garneau, Kay Pasley
Prevalence and Demographic Characteristics of Stepfamilies
A Family Systems Approach to Stress and Resilience in Stepfamilies
Stepfamily Resilience
Working Professionally With Stepfamilies
Chapter 9: Adaptation Among Immigrant Families: Resources and Barriers - Kevin Ray Bush, Bertranna A. Abrams-Muruthi, Stephanie A. Bohon, Hyoun K. Kim
Immigrant Families in the United States
Acculturation and Adaptation
Common Barriers and Stressors Experienced by Immigrant Families
Common Resources and Adaptation Among Immigrant Families
Latino, Asian and Afro-Caribbean Immigrant Families
Chapter 10: The Newest Generation of U.S. Veterans and Their Families - Kyung-Hee Lee, Shelley Mc Dermid Wadsworth
Theoretical Framework: Life course
Part V: Violence in a Family and Community Context
Chapter 11: Promoting Pathways to Resilient Outcomes for Maltreated Children - Margaret Wright, Lucy Allbaugh
Rates of Resilience Among Maltreated Children
Longitudinal Studies Examining Resilient Outcomes for Maltreated Children
How Interventions Can Foster Resilience in Maltreated Children
Interventions at Specific Levels of the Ecosystem
Interventions Targeting Multiple Systems
Chapter 12: Stress and Coping with Intimate Partner Violence - Lyndal Khaw
Types of Intimate Partner Violence
Explaining Violence by an Intimate Partner
Contextual Model of Family Stress
Leaving Abusive Partners and Postseparation Coping
Interventions for IPV
Chapter 13: Family Responses to School and Community Mass Violence - Amity Noltemeyer, Courtney L. Mc Laughlin, Mark R. Mc Gowan
Mass Violence: The Context
Theoretical Framework
Resilience in the Midst of Mass Violence
Implications for Professionals Working with Families Exposed to Mass Violence Preparedness
Part VI: Families Encountering Sickness, Poverty, and Death
Chapter 14: Physical and Mental Illness and Family Stress - Jeremy Yorgason, Kevin Stott
Illness Characteristics
Theoretical Framework
When a Child is Ill
When a Spouse/Partner is Ill
When Aging Parents Are Ill
Chapter 15: Families Coping with Alcohol and Substance Abuse - Kevin Lyness, Judith Fischer
Children and Substance Abuse Problems
Adolescents and Youth and Substance Abuse Problems
Bidirectional Processes
Issues in Prevention and Treatment
Chapter 16: Economic Stress and Families - Suzanne Bartholomae, Jonathon Fox
Defining and Measuring Economic Stress
Economic Conditions of the American Family
Measures of Family Economic Well-Being
The Family Economic Stress Model
Coping with Economic Stress
Family Financial Planning as a Coping Resource
Chapter 17: Death, Dying and Grief in Families - Colleen Murray
Etiology of “Invisible Death” and Its Consequences
Theories of Grieving
Factors Related to Family Adaptation to Death
Specific Losses
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