Author: Gina M. TouchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adjustment (Psychology)
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Family Patterns, Life Stress and Social Support as Predictors of Health and Psychological Adjustment in Adults and Children
Author: Gina M. TouchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adjustment (Psychology)
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Handbook of Social Support and the Family
Author: Gregory R. PiercePublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1489913882
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
While insights sometimes are slow in coming, they often seem obvious when they finally arrive. This handbook is an outcome of the insight that the topics of social support and the family are very closely linked. Obvious as this might seem, the fact remains that the literatures dealing with social support and the family have been deceptively separate and distinct. For example, work on social support began in the 1970s with the accumulation of evidence that social ties and social integration play important roles in health and personal adjustment. Even though family members are often the key social supporters of individuals, relatively little re search of social support was targeted on family interactions as a path to specifying supporter processes. It is now recognized that one of the most important features of the family is its role in providing the individual with a source of support and acceptance. Fortunately, in recen t years, the distinctness and separateness of the fields of social support and the family have blurred. This handbook provides the first collation and integration of social support and family research. This integration calls for specifying processes (such as the cognitions associated with poor support availability and unrewarding faIllily constellations) and factors (such as cultural differences in family life and support provision) that are pertinent to integration.
Biomedical Index to PHS-supported Research
Author: The Routledge Handbook of Family Communication
Author: Anita L. VangelistiPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136946365
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 734
Book Description
With a synthesis of research on issues key to understanding family interaction, as well as an analysis of many theoretical and methodological choices made by researchers studying family communication, the Handbook serves to advance the field by reframing old questions and stimulating new ones. The contents are comprised of chapters covering: theoretical and methodological issues influencing current conceptions of family; research and theory centering around the family life course communication occurring in a variety of family forms individual family members and their relationships dynamic communication processes taking place in families family communication embedded in social, cultural, and physical contexts. Key changes to the second edition include: updates throughout, providing a thorough and up-to-date overview of research and theory new topics reflecting the growth of the discipline, including chapters on "singles" as family members, emerging adults, and physiology and physical health. Highlighting the work of scholars across disciplines--communication, social psychology, clinical psychology, sociology, family studies, and others--this volume captures the breadth and depth of research on family communication and family relationships. The well-known contributors approach family interaction from a variety of theoretical perspectives and focus on topics ranging from the influence of structural characteristics on family relationships to the importance of specific communication processes.
Biomedical Index to PHS-supported Research: pt. A. Subject access A-H
Author: Families and Change
Author: Patrick C. McKenryPublisher: SAGE Publications, Incorporated
ISBN:
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Suited to graduate and undergraduate courses on family or social problems, this text presents scholarship from a variety of disciplines to address common problems faced by contemporary families. An overview of the major points of contention, explanatory theories, and research knowledge are discussed
Stress, Coping, and Resiliency in Children and Families
Author: E. Mavis HetheringtonPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 1317780140
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Concern with stress and coping has a long history in biomedical, psychological and sociological research. The inadequacy of simplistic models linking stressful life events and adverse physical and psychological outcomes was pointed out in the early 1980s in a series of seminal papers and books. The issues and theoretical models discussed in this work shaped much of the subsequent research on this topic and are reflected in the papers in this volume. The shift has been away from identifying associations between risks and outcomes to a focus on factors and processes that contribute to diversity in response to risks. Based on the Family Research Consortium's fifth summer institute, this volume focuses on stress and adaptability in families and family members. The papers explore not only how a variety of stresses influence family functioning but also how family process moderates and mediates the contribution of individual and environmental risk and protective factors to personal adjustment. They reveal the complexity of current theoretical models, research strategies and analytic approaches to the study of risk, resiliency and vulnerability along with the central role risk, family process and adaptability play in both normal development and childhood psychopathology.
Social Stress and the Family
Author: Hamilton I Mc CubbinPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317774531
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
An informative anthology of recent theory and research developments pertinent to family stress.
Author: Kim M. Pierce
Author: