Family stress
Subtitle: classic and contemporary readings
By: edited by Pauline Boss, with Carol Mulligan.
Contributors: Boss, Pauline.; Mulligan, Carol.
Publisher: Sage Publications
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Thousand Oaks [Calif.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
Subjects: Family -- Psychological aspects; Family -- Mental health; Stress (Psychology)
Description: "Family Stress, composed 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.

This anthology 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.".

"Family Stress is recommended for upper-division undergraduate and graduate students in Sociology, Marriage & Family Therapy, and Family Studies. It is also suggested for professionals and practitioners working with families in social work, nursing, family therapy, and family psychology settings."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. What is new in family stress theory and research?; title: Family sense of coherence and family adaptation / Aaron Antonovsky and Talma Sourani; title: Evolving the biobehavioral family model : the fit of attachment / Beatrice L. Wood, Kendra B. Klebba, Bruce D. Miller; title: Stress, competence, and development : continuities in the study of schizophrenic adults, children vulnerable to psychopathology, and the search for stress-resistant children / Norman Garmezy; title: Toward a definition of family resilience : integrating life-span and family perspectives / Dale R. Hawley and Laura DeHaan; title: Stress levels, family help patterns, and religiosity in middle- and working-class African American single mothers / Harriette Pipes McAdoo; title: Spiritual thoughts, coping, and "sense of coherence" in brain tumour patients and their spouses / Susan Strang and Peter Strang; title: Suffering and spirituality : the soul of clinical work with families / Lorraine M. Wright; title: Levels of meaning in family stress theory / Joan M. Patterson and Ann W. Garwick; title: pt. 2. Models and theories; title: The double ABCX model of family stress and adaptation : an empirical test by analysis of structural equations with latent variables / Yoav Lavee, Hamilton I. McCubbin, Joan M. Patterson; title: Family stress : integrating theory and measurement / Stevan E. Hobfoll and Charles D. Spielberger; title: Primacy of perception in family stress theory and measurement / Pauline Boss; title: Stress, change, and families : theoretical and methodological considerations / Anne E. Kazak; title: Process of family stress : a response to Boss and Kazak / Stevan E. Hobfoll and Charles D. Spielberger; title: pt. 3. Definitions : a guide to family stress theory; title: Generic features of families under stress / Reuben Hill; title: pt. 4. Boundary ambiguity : a risk factor in family stress management; title: Normative family stress : family boundary changes across the life-span / Pauline G. Boss; title: Family boundary ambiguity predicts Alzheimer's outcomes / Wayne Caron, Pauline Boss, and James Mortimer; title: pt. 5. The link between ambiguity and ambivalence in family stress theory; title: Intergenerational ambivalence : a new approach to the study of parent-child relations in later life / Kurt Luescher and Karl Pillemer; title: Adult children of fathers missing in action (MIA) : an examination of emotional distress, grief, and family hardiness / Cathy L. Campbell and Alice S. Demi; title: pt. 6. Family values and belief systems : influences on family stress management; title: Psychological distress among the Cree of James Bay / Laurence J. Kirmayer ... [et al.]; title: pt. 7. The family's external context; title: The cultural genogram : key to training culturally competent family therapists / Kenneth V. Hardy and Tracey A. Laszloffy; title: Racial discrimination as a moderator of the links among stress, maternal psychological functioning, and family relationships / Velma McBride Murry ... [et al.]; title: Couple resilience to economic pressure / Rand D. Conger, Martha A. Rueter, and Glen H. Elder, Jr.; title: pt. 8. Summary and future directions; title: The family's conception of accountability and competence : a new approach to the conceptualization and assessment of family stress / David Reiss and Mary Ellen Oliveri.