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Families & change : coping with stressful events and transitions /

Families & change : coping with stressful events and transitions / edited by Christine A. Price and Sharon J. Price. - Fifth edition. - xxiv, 408 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

section I. Theoretical foundations --
1. Families coping with change : a conceptual overview / Kevin R. Bush, [et al. ...] --
Study of family stress and change --
Family Stress Theory --
ABC-X Model --
section II. General family stress --
2. Everyday hassles and family relationships / Heather M. Helms, Natalie D. Hengstebeck, and David H. Demo --
The Vulnerability-Stress-Adaptation Model --
Intervention --
section III. Developmental family forms --
3. Conceptualizing parental stress with Family Stress Theory / Gary W. Peterson --
Pragmatic realism --
4. Families with special needs : a journey from coping and adaptation to resilience and hope / Briana S. Nelson Goff, [et al. ...] --
5. LGBQ-parent families : development and functioning in context / Abbie M. Goldberg --
Coming out and being out --
Same-sex relationships --
6. Stress and coping in later life / Áine M. Humble and Christine A. Price --
The aging family --
Stress in later life --
Retirement --
Caregiving --
Elder abuse --
section IV. Transitional family forms --
7. Divorce : variation and fluidity / David H. Demo and mark Fine --
8. Stress and resilience in stepfamilies today / Chelsea Garneau and Kay Pasley --
A Family Systems approach to stress and resilience in stepfamilies --
9. Adaptation among immigrant families : resources and barriers / Kevin R. Bush, [et al. ...] --
Immigrant families in the United States --
Acculturation and adaptation --
Latino, Asian, and Afro-Caribbean immigrant families --
10. The newest generation of U.S. veterans and their families / Kyung-Hee Lee and Shelley McDermid Wadsworth --
section V. Violence in a family and community context --
11. Promoting pathways to resilient outcomes for maltreated children / Margaret Wright and Lucy Allbaugh --
Interventions --
12. Stress and coping with intimate partner violence / Lyndal Khaw --
13. Family responses to school and community mass violence / Amity Noltemeyer, Courtney L. McLaughlin, and Mark R. McGowan --
Resilience --
section VI. Families encountering sickness, poverty, and death / Jeremy Yorgason and Kevin Stott --
15. Families coping with alcohol and substance abuse / Kevin P. Lyness and Judith Fischer --
Children and substance abuse problems --
Adolescents and youth and substance abuse problems --
16. Economic stress and families / Suzanne Bartholomae and Jonathon Fox --
17. Death, dying, and grief in families / Colleen I. Murray --
Etiology of "invisible death" and its consequences --
Theories of grieving.

This edition synthesizes and analyses the literature detailing families' responses to change and other stressful life events. This edition contains more examples and explicit intervention suggestions and strategies, while emphasis on resiliency has also been increased.

9781483366753 (pbk. : alk. paper)


Families--United States.
Social problems--United States.
Social change--United States.

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