Author: Stevan E. HobfollPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780891164043
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
First Published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Stress, Social Support, and Women
Author: Stevan E. HobfollPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780891164043
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
First Published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Stress, Social Support, And Women
Author: Stevan E. HobfollPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1317770595
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
First published in 1986. This book is concerned with the stressors women undergo from adolescence to old age and the resources, especially interpersonal resources, women use to cope with these stressors. There follows a series of chapters that address the use of social support as a resource for coping with stressful life events that confront women in a variety of contexts during their life span.
Gender and Stress
Author: Rosalind C. BarnettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
In this volume the authors examine the variety of ways in which gender affects the stress process.
A Handbook for the Study of Mental Health
Author: Teresa L. ScheidPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521491940
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 735
Book Description
The second edition of A Handbook for the Study of Mental Health provides a comprehensive review of the sociology of mental health. Chapters by leading scholars and researchers present an overview of historical, social and institutional frameworks. Part I examines social factors that shape psychiatric diagnosis and the measurement of mental health and illness, theories that explain the definition and treatment of mental disorders and cultural variability. Part II investigates effects of social context, considering class, gender, race and age, and the critical role played by stress, marriage, work and social support. Part III focuses on the organization, delivery and evaluation of mental health services, including the criminalization of mental illness, the challenges posed by HIV, and the importance of stigma. This is a key research reference source that will be useful to both undergraduates and graduate students studying mental health and illness from any number of disciplines.
Women and Parenting the Effects of Stress, Social Support and Psychological Well-being
Author: Lynne ClarkThe Oxford Handbook of Health Psychology
Author: Howard S. FriedmanPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199365075
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 945
Book Description
The Oxford Handbook of Health Psychology brings together preeminent experts to provide a comprehensive view of key concepts, tools, and findings of this rapidly expanding core discipline.
Social Support in Couples
Author: Carolyn E. CutronaPublisher: SAGE
ISBN: 0803948840
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 167
Book Description
Expressions of support between partners may be more commonplace than heroic, but their cumulative effects on the growth of trust, enduring love, and commitment can be considerable--even lifesaving in the face of otherwise overwhelming tragedy. Skillfully weaving together the latest research with engaging case examples and practical applications, author Carolyn E. Cutrona offers an in-depth analysis of how committed partners can serve as resources for each other in stressful scenarios. Beginning with a fresh overview of definitions and concepts, Social Support in Couples articulates the vital components of intimate support systems. This informative volume explores the phenomenon of marital communication through real-life interactions, focusing on gender-related differences, the interplay between supportive and destructive interactions, and stress experienced during chronic/disabling illness. In a concluding chapter, a research agenda for future study opens the topic up to additional serious consideration. A reader-friendly examination of the power of supportive acts, Social Support in Couples is recommended for a wide readership, including academics, practitioners, and students in family studies, social psychology, social work, and marriage and family counseling.
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.
Women's Stress, Social Support and Health
Author: Pamela Ann GellerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pregnancy
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Infertility
Author: Annette L. StantonPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 148990753X
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
As a researcher whose work focuses largely on the causes and conse quences of unwanted pregnancy, I may appear to be an unlikely candidate to write a foreword to a book on infertility. Yet, many of the themes that emerge in the study of unwanted pregnancy are also apparent in the study of infertility. Moreover, this volume is an important contribution to the literature on fertility, women's health issues, and health psychology in general, all topics with which I have been closely involved over the past two decades. Neither pregnancy nor its absence is inherently desirable: The occurrence of a pregnancy can be met with joy or despair, and its absence can be a cause of relief or anguish. Whether or not these states are wanted, the conscious and unconscious meanings attached to pregnancy and in fertility, the responses of others, the perceived implications of these states, and one's expectations for the future all are critical factors in determining an individual's response. In addition, both unwanted pregnancy and failure to conceive can be socially stigmatized, evoking both overt and subtle social disapproval. Fur ther, they involve not only the woman, but her partner, and potentially the extended family. Finally, both of these reproductive issues have been poorly researched. Because both are emotionally charged and socially stigmatized events, they are difficult to study. Much of the early literature relied on anecdotal or case reports.