Table Of Content
PART 1: WHAT IS NEW IN FAMILY STRESS THEORY & RESEARCH?1. Family Sense of Coherence and Family Adaptation - Antonovsky, A. & Sournai, T. (1988)2. Evolving the Biobehavioral Family Model: The Fit of Attachment - Wood, B.L., Klebba, K.B., & Miller, B.D. (2000)3. Stress, Competence, and Development: Continuties in the Study of Schizophrenic Adults, Children Vulnerabe to Psychopathology, and the Search for Stress-Resistant Children - Garmezy, N. (1987)4. Toward a Definition of Family Resilience: Integrating Life-span and Family Perspectives - Hawley, D.R. & DeHaan, L. (1996)5. Stress Levels, Family Help Patterns, and Religiosity in Middle- and Working-Class African American Single Mothers - McAdoo, H.P. (1995)6. Spiritual Thoughts, Coping, and "Sense of Coherence" in Brain Tumour Patients and Their Spouses - Strang, S. & Strang, P. (2001)7. Suffering and Spirituality: The Soul of Clinical Work With Families - Wright, L.M. (1997)8. Levels of Meaning in Family Stress Theory - Patterson, J.M. & Garwick, A.W. (1994)PART 2: MODELS AND THEORIES9. The Double ABCX Model of Family Stress and Adaptation: An Empirical Test by Analysis of Structural Equations With Latent Variables - LaVee, Y., McCubbin, H.I. & Patterson, J. (1985)10. Family Stress: Integrating Theory & Measurement - Hobfoll, S.E. & Spielberger, C.D. (1992)11. Primacy of Perception in Family Stress Theory and Measurement - Boss, P. (1992)12. Stress, Change, and Families: Theoretical and Methodological Considerations - Kazak, A.E. (1992)13. Process of Family Stress: A Response to Boss (1992) and Kazak (1992) - Hobfoll, S.E. & Spielberger, C.D. (1992)PART 3: DEFINITIONS: A GUIDE TO FAMILY STRESS THEORY14. Generic Features of Families Under Stress - Hill, R. (1958)PART 4: BOUNDARY AMBIGUITY: A RISK FACTOR IN FAMILY STRESS MANAGEMENT15. Normative Family Stress: Family Boundary Changes Across the Life-Span - Boss, P. (1980)16. Family Boundary Ambiguity Predicts Alzheimers Outcomes - Caron, W.; Boss, P. & Mortimer, J. (1999)PART 5: THE LINK BETWEEN AMBIGUITY & AMBIVALENCE IN FAMILY STRESS THEORY17. Intergenerational Ambivalence: A New Approach to the Study of Parent-Child Relations in Later Life - Luescher, K. & Pillemer, K. (1998)18. Adult Children of Fathers Missing in Action (MIA): An Examination of Emotional Distress, Grief, and Family Hardiness - Campbell, C.L. & Demi, A.S. (2000)PART 6: FAMILY VALUES AND BELIEF SYSTEMS: INFLUENCES ON FAMILY STRESS MANAGEMENT19. Psychological Distress Among the Cree of James Bay - Kirmaayer, L., Boothroyd, L., Tanner, A., Adelson, N., Robinson, E. (2000)PART 7: THE FAMILYS EXTERNAL CONTEXT20. The Cultural Genogram: Key to Training Culturally Competent Family Therapists - Hardy, K.V. & Laszloffy, T.A. (1995)21. Racial Discrimination as a Moderator of the Links Among Stress, Maternal Psychological Functioning, and Family Relationships - Murry, V.M., Brown, P.A., Brody, G.H., Cutrona, C.E. & Simons, R.L. (2001)22. Couple Resilience to Economic Pressure - Conger, R.D., Rueter, M.A. & Elder, G.H., Jr. (1999)PART 8: SUMMARY AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS23. The Familys Conception of Accountability and Competence: A New Approach to the Conceptualization and Assessment of Family Stress - Reiss, D., & Oliveri, M.E. (1991)
Synopsis
Why do some families rebound from stress with seeming ease while others seem to struggle? This anthology, comprised of 23 major articles from the family stress literature, addresses questions surrounding the increasingly diverse and complex family situations of stress and crisis. This volume provides the family stress community with an accessible, coherent compilation of writings by past, present and emerging family stress scholars. The reader includes classic and current writings from multi-disciplinary streams of work in family social science, social work, nursing, family sociology, family therapy, and family psychology. Recommended for upper-division undergraduate and masters students in departments of or courses related to Sociology, Marriage & Family Therapy, and Family Studies. Also suggested for professionals and practitioners working with families in social work, nursing, family therapy and family psychology settings., Why do some families rebound from stress with seeming ease while others seem to struggle? This anthology, comprised of 23 major articles from the family stress literature, addresses questions such as the increasingly diverse and complex family situations of stress and crisis. This volume provides the family stress community with an accessible, coherent compilation of writings by past, present and emerging family stress scholars. The reader includes classic and current writings from multi-disciplinary streams of work in family social science, social work, nursing, family sociology, family therapy, and family psychology. Key Features: Culture and Context . With an eye toward more culturally inclusive theories, the selected readings address how culture and context both aid and impede family resilience. Clarity. An overall introduction and section introductions by Pauline Boss provide context for each individual reading and coherence for the book as a whole Critical Thought. A critical thinking focus, outlined in chapter introductions, encourages students, researchers, and practitioners to expand their own thinking about the concepts and models of family stress and coping to guide the development of future work in this field Crossover Coverage. Designed to parallel coverage in Pauline Bosss best-selling text, Family Stress Management, Second Edition , this collection of readings should nonetheless serve as a valuable resource on its own and in tandem with other texts in this area. Recommended for upper-division undergraduate and masters students in departments of or courses related to Sociology, Marriage & Family Therapy, and Family Studies. Also suggested for professionals and practitioners working with families in social work, nursing, family therapy and family psychology settings.
