Family Psychology: The Art of the Science / Edition 1

by William M. Pinsof, Jay L. Lebow

Overview

This book is the product of a multi-year initiative, sponsored by the Division of Family Psychology (43) of the American Psychological Association, the Family Institute at Northwestern University, Oxford University Press, and Northwestern University, to bring together the leading researchers in family psychology in five major areas of great social and health relevance — good marriage, depression, divorce and remarriage, partner violence, and families and physical health. The book embodies a series of five systematically and developmentally informed mini-books or manuals, critically examining the existing research in each area and illuminating new directions for future research. The chapters in each area cover a wide range of distinct issues and diverse populations. Through a pre-publication face-to-face two-day conference, the editors invited each of the authors in each specific domain to collaborate and coordinate their chapters, creating a synergy for the development of new knowledge. Additionally, the editors encouraged the authors to step outside of their own specific research program to reflect on the unique challenges and opportunities in their research domain. The resulting book provides the next generation of theorists, researchers, and therapists with an in-depth and fresh look at what has been done and what remains to be done in each area. If you are a social scientist working in these or related areas, the book will sharpen and stimulate your research. If you are a young researcher or are contemplating entering the field of family psychology, the book lays out pathways and strategies for entering and unraveling the mysteries in each area. Lastly, if you are someone who wants to understand the state of art of research in these very relevant domains, this book takes you to the top of mountain with very best guides and provides a vista that compels and illuminates.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195135572
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	09/01/2005
Series:	Oxford Series in Clinical Psychology
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	608
Product dimensions:	10.22(w) x 7.38(h) x 1.77(d)

About the Author

both at Northwestern University

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: A scientific paradigm for family psychology, William M. Pinsof and Jay LebowSection I. Marriage and Marital Intervention2. A critical view of marital satisfaction, Robert L. Weiss3. A science of couple therapy: For what should we seek empirical support?, Andrew Christensen, Brian D. Doss, and David C. Atkins4. The mis-measure of therapy: Treatment outcomes in marital therapy research, John Gottman and Kimberly Ryan5. Emotion and the repair of close relationships, Susan M. Johnson6. A sampling of theoretical, methodological, and policy issues in marriage education: Implications for family psychology, Howard J. Markman, Galena H. Kline, Jacqueline G. Rea, Samantha Simms Piper, and Scott M. StanleySection II. Partner Violence: Participation Perspectives and Treatment7. A life span developmental systems perspective on aggression toward a partner, Deborah M. Capaldi, Joan Wu Shortt, and Hyoun K. Kim8. Partner violence and men: A focus on the male perpetrator, Amy Holtzworth-Munroe and Jeffrey C. Meehan9. Women in intimate partner violence: Major advances and new directions, Mary Ann Dutton, Mai El-Khoury, Megan Murphy, Rachel Somberg, and Margaret Bell10. Partner Violence and Children, Ernest N. Jouriles, Renee McDonald, and Nancy Skopp11. Can partner aggression be stopped with psychosocial interventions?, K. Daniel O'Leary and Edward M. VegaSection III. Families in Divorce and Remarriage: Family Member Perspectives12. Remarriage and stepfamilies, James H. Bray and Irene Easling13. Promoting better fathering among divorced non-resident fathers, Sanford L. Braver, William A. Griffin, Jeffrey T. Cookston, Irwin N. Sandler, and Jason Williams14. Fathers in African American families: The importance of social and cultural context, Melvin N. Wilson, Anthony L. Chambers, and LaKeesha N. Woods15. Mothers in transition: Model based strategies for effective parenting, Bernadette Marie Bullock and Marion S. ForgatchSection IV. Families and Depression16. Disentangling causality in the associations between couple and family processes and depression, Valerie E. Whiffen17. A relational perspective on depressed children: Family patterns and interventions, Nadine J. Kaslow, Claudia Jones, and Frances Palin18. Adolescent depression: Family focused on treatment strategies, Joan Rosenbaum Asarnow, Martha Tompson, and Michele S. Berk19. Marital discord in the context of a depressive episode: Research on efficacy and effectiveness, Steven Beach and Maya E. Gupta20. Toward culturally-centered and evidence-based treatments for depressed adolescents, Guillermo Bernal and Emily Saez-Santiago21. Families, health and illness: The search for pathways and mechanisms of effect, Beatrice L. Wood and Bruce D. Miller22. Weaving gold out of straw: Meaning-making in families who have children with chronic illnesses, Joan M. Patterson23. Using family models in health research: A framework for family intervention in chronic disease, Lawrence FisherIndex

Editorial Reviews

"Rather than simply castigating and discarding family interventions, professors and practitioners should expend the effort to become acquainted with and appreciative of the body of research literature that has been achieved, particularly in the past decade. Family Psychology: The Art of the Science provides important information of this nature and does so in an enlightening manner that students and practitioners will welcome."—PsycCRITIQUES

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