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Families & Change
Coping With Stressful Events and Transitions
Fifth Edition
Edited by:
- Christine A. Price - Montclair State University, USA
- Kevin R. Bush - Miami University of Ohio, USA
- Sharon J. Price - University of Georgia, Athens, USA
January 2016 | 432 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
“Families & Change is an excellent resource for students to learn about stress and crisis within families.”
- Carrie LeFevre Sillito, University of Utah
Learn how contemporary families respond to and handle common stressful life circumstances. Integrating research, theory, and applications, Families & Change: Coping With Stressful Events and Transitions, Fifth Edition offers students an in-depth understanding of family change. Each chapter of this bestselling text presents the latest scholarship from leaders in the field on family change and stressors as well as resources for intervention. Timely topics such as resiliency, LGBT families, and military families are addressed.
- Carrie LeFevre Sillito, University of Utah
Learn how contemporary families respond to and handle common stressful life circumstances. Integrating research, theory, and applications, Families & Change: Coping With Stressful Events and Transitions, Fifth Edition offers students an in-depth understanding of family change. Each chapter of this bestselling text presents the latest scholarship from leaders in the field on family change and stressors as well as resources for intervention. Timely topics such as resiliency, LGBT families, and military families are addressed.
Part I: Theoretical Foundations
Kevin Bush, Christine A. Price, Sharon J. Price (Patrick C. McKenry Posthumously)
Chapter 1: Families Coping With Change: A Conceptual Overview
Part II: General Family Stress
Heather Helms, Natalie D. Hengstebeck, David Demo
Chapter 2: Everyday Hassles and Family Relationships
Part III: Developmental Family Forms
Gary Peterson
Chapter 3: Conceptualizing Parental Stress with Family Stress Theory
Briana Nelson Goff, Jessica High, Adam Cless, Kelsey Koblitz, Natira Staats, Nicole Springer
Chapter 4: Families with Special Needs: A Journey from Coping and Adaptation to Resilience and Hope
Abbie Goldberg
Chapter 5: LGBQ-Parent Families: Development and Functioning in Context
Aine Humble, Christine Price
Chapter 6: Stress and Coping in Later Life
Part IV: Transitional Family Forms
David Demo, Mark Fine
Chapter 7: Divorce: Variation and Fluidity
Chelsea Garneau, Kay Pasley
Chapter 8: Stress and Resilience in Stepfamilies Today
Kevin Ray Bush, Bertranna A. Abrams-Muruthi, Stephanie A. Bohon, Hyoun K. Kim
Chapter 9: Adaptation Among Immigrant Families: Resources and Barriers
Kyung-Hee Lee, Shelley McDermid Wadsworth
Chapter 10: The Newest Generation of U.S. Veterans and Their Families
Part V: Violence in a Family and Community Context
Margaret Wright, Lucy Allbaugh
Chapter 11: Promoting Pathways to Resilient Outcomes for Maltreated Children
Lyndal Khaw
Chapter 12: Stress and Coping with Intimate Partner Violence
Amity Noltemeyer, Courtney L. McLaughlin, Mark R. McGowan
Chapter 13: Family Responses to School and Community Mass Violence
Part VI: Families Encountering Sickness, Poverty, and Death
Jeremy Yorgason, Kevin Stott
Chapter 14: Physical and Mental Illness and Family Stress
Kevin Lyness, Judith Fischer
Chapter 15: Families Coping with Alcohol and Substance Abuse
Suzanne Bartholomae, Jonathon Fox
Chapter 16: Economic Stress and Families
Colleen Murray
Chapter 17: Death, Dying and Grief in Families
Supplements
Instructor Teaching Site
Password-protected Instructor Resources include the following:
- A Microsoft® Word® test bank is available containing multiple choice, true/false, short answer, and essay questions for each chapter. The test bank provides you with a diverse range of pre-written options as well as the opportunity for editing any question and/or inserting your own personalized questions to effectively assess students’ progress and understanding.
- Editable, chapter-specific Microsoft® PowerPoint® slides offer you complete flexibility in easily creating a multimedia presentation for your course.
- Classroom Exercises cover key concepts, and may be used for individual or group settings.
- Chapter-specific Discussion Questions allows students to delve more deeply into the subject matter.
“Families and Change is an exceptional compilation of work that provides a comprehensive overview of some of the most pressing stressors experienced by families today. The strength and resiliency of the family is emphasized throughout the text. It is an excellent handbook for students, practitioners, clinicians and family stress researchers across disciplines.”
Abilene Christian University
“An excellent choice of a textbook – content is thoroughly researched, depth and breadth are substantive, and topics clearly relate to modern concerns and issues for families in contemporary society. A ‘must have’ textbook for students to acquire and apply specialized knowledge of families and coping with change.”
Eastern Illinois University
“Families & Change is an excellent resource for students to learn about stress and crisis within families.”
University of Utah
“Families and Change tackles current and critical topics such as race, cultural, LGBT that allows us to better prepare our human services students for work in the front lines. The chapters’ unique approach and web resources encouraged students to raise questions and stretch their thinking further.”
Liberty University
“The authors have once again provided a comprehensive overview of stressors influencing both individuals and families. The writing style is ideal for upper-level undergraduates and masters’ students.”
West Virginia University
Gives a good comprehensive overview with supplemental materials. Thoroughly researched material that is update and covers a variety of family types and events.
Human Environmental Stds Dept, Southeast Missouri State Univ
May 23, 2016
