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Book SynopsisFamilies & Change: Coping With Stressful Events and Transitions presents current literature detailing families’ responses to varied transitions and stressful life events over the life span. Integrating research, theory, and application, this bestselling text implements interdisciplinary content to address a multitude of both predictable and unpredictable problems and stressors as they relate to family sciences. Editors Kevin R. Bush and Christine A. Price bring together cutting-edge research and scholarship to examine issues across the life span and how these factors can be applied across diverse family situations.
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Trade Review"It is a good overview of family stress theory combined with application to a diverse amount of family situations. The text is straightforward and written at the right level for my students."
-- Zoe Taylor
"There are a lot of books that talk about basics of the family, but this is the only book I have found that combines ‘social problems’ with ‘family studies’ and talks about problems and changes that families face." -- Carrie LeFevre Sillito, Ph.D.
"I appreciate the use of stress models and the development of the concept of resilience that defines change and stability for individual and family development. Problems can be identified, but the concepts related to resilience and coping within the framework of social models produce an important, enlightening, and useful text for students and professionals in everyday application." -- Carol Mathews, Ph.D.,
"Theory-based, individual chapters are written by experts and cover many areas our students are likely to be dealing with within their work. It also blends well with journal articles and upper-level assignments and papers." -- Barbara H. Settles, Ph.D.
Table of ContentsList of Tables and Figures Preface to the Sixth Edition Acknowledgments Section 1: Theoretical Foundations Chapter 1: Families Coping With Change: A Conceptual Overview - Christine A. Price, Kevin R. Bush, Sharon J. Price, and Patrick C. McKenry Section 2: Family Stress and Adjustment Chapter 2: Everyday Hassles and Family Relationships - Heather M. Helms, Kaicee B. Postler, and David H. Demo Chapter 3: Mindfulness and Family Stress - Suzanne Klatt and Anthony G. James Section 3: Developmental Family Stress Chapter 4: Parental Stress Viewed Through the Lens of Family Stress Theory - Gary W. Peterson Chapter 5: Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: Understanding Stress and Resilience in Family Systems - Kami L. Gallus and Briana S. Nelson Goff Chapter 6: LGBQ-Parent Families: Development and Functioning in Context - Abbie E. Goldberg and Nora M. McCormick Chapter 7: Stress and Coping in Later Life - Áine M. Humble Section 4: Stressful Family Transitions Chapter 8: Divorce: Variation and Fluidity - David H. Demo, Mark A. Fine, and Savannah Sommers Chapter 9: Stress and Resilience in Stepfamilies Today - Chelsea Garneau-Rosner and Braquel Egginton Chapter 10: Immigrant Families: Resilience Through Adversity - Bertranna A. Muruthi, Hyoun K. Kim, James Muruthi, and Jaehee Kim Section 5: Contextual Influences on Family Stress Chapter 11: Economic Stress and Families - Suzanne Bartholomae and Jonathan Fox Chapter 12: Race, Ethnicity, and Family Stress - Anthony G. James, Veronica R. Barrios, Roudi Roy, and Soyoung Lee Chapter 13: The Newest Generation of U.S. Veterans and Their Families - Kyung-Hee Lee and Shelley MacDermid Wadsworth Section 6: Stress Relating to Family and Community Violence Chapter 14: Promoting Pathways to Resilient Outcomes for Maltreated Children - Margaret O’Dougherty Wright and Lucy Allbaugh Chapter 15: Stress and Coping with Intimate Partner Violence - Lyndal Khaw Chapter 16: Family Responses to School and Community Mass Violence - Amity Noltemeyer, Courtney L. McLaughlin, Mark R. McGowan, and Caitie Johnson Section 7: Family Stress and Coping with Sickness and Death Chapter 17: Physical Illness and Family Stress - Jeremy Yorgason, Stephanie Richardson, and Kevin Stott Chapter 18: Family Socioeconomic Context and Mental Health in Parents and Children: A Heuristic Framework - Kandauda A. S. Wickrama, Catherine Walker O’Neal, and Tae Kyoung Lee Chapter 19: Families Coping with Alcohol and Substance Abuse - Kevin P. Lyness and Judith L. Fischer Chapter 20: Death, Dying, and Grief in Families - Colleen I. Murray and Jordan C. Reuter About the Editors About the Contributors
