Coping With Family Changes

Presents the vast literature that has emerged in recent years focusing on how families respond to various transitions and stressful life events.

Families & Change: Coping With Stressful Events and Transitions presents current literature detailing families’ responses to varied transitions and stressful life events over the life span. Integrating research, theory, and application, this bestselling text implements interdisciplinary content to address a multitude of both predictable and unpredictable problems and stressors as they relate to family sciences. Editors Kevin R. Bush and Christine A. Price bring together cutting-edge research and scholarship to examine issues across the life span and how these factors can be applied across diverse family situations. Included with this title: The password-protected Instructor Resource Site (formally known as SAGE Edge) offers access to all text-specific resources, including a test bank and editable, chapter-specific PowerPoint® slides.

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

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

Provides advice on coping with such family changes as separation, divorce, remarriage, new family members and new schools.

The Third Edition of Family Stress Management by Pauline Boss, Chalandra M. Bryant, and Jay A. Mancini continues its original commitment to recognize both the external and internal contexts in which distressed families find themselves. With its hallmark Contextual Model of Family Stress (CMFS), the Third Edition provides practitioners and researchers with a useful framework to understand and help distressed individuals, couples, and families. The example of a universal stressor—a death in the family—highlights cultural differences in ways of coping. Throughout, there is new emphasis on diversity and the nuances of family stress management—such as ambiguous loss—plus new discussions on family resilience and community as resources for support.

Provides advice on coping with such family changes as separation, divorce, remarriage, new family members, and new schools.