1st Edition

Social Stress and the Family Advances and Developments in Family Stress Therapy and Research

    An informative anthology of recent theory and research developments pertinent to family stress.

    Contents Introduction
    • The Family Stress Process: The Double ABCX Model of Adjustment and Adaptation
    • Critical Transitions Over the Family Life Span: Theory and Research
    • Family Stress as Community Frame
    • Family Problem Solving and Family Stress
    • Individual Coping Efforts and Family Studies: Conceptual and Methodological Issues
    • Social Support and Family Stress
    • Contribution of Personality Research to an Understanding of Stress and Aging
    • Family Divorce and Separation: Theory and Research
    • Mundane Extreme Environmental Stress in Family Stress Theories: The Case of Black Families in White America
    • Analytic Essay: Family Stress and Bereavement
    • Researching Family Stress
    • Reference Notes Included

    Biography

    Mc Cubbin, Hamilton I; Sussman, Marvin B