Family Relations

Challenges for the Future
1. Auflage 1992
ISBN: 978-0-8039-3946-2
Verlag: Sage Publications, Inc

Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 298 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 395 g

Reihe: Current Issues in the Family

As the social world of American families feverishly changes, single-parent families, dual-career couples, and blended families have quickly become the norm rather than the exception. In Family Relations, a distinguished group of leading family researchers including Joan Huber, David Olson, Hamilton McCubbin, and Marilyn Coleman examines the social changes that have gripped society and explains their impact on family relationships and functioning. Initial chapters address principal theories of change; the remainder of the volume addresses the predominant challenges facing contemporary families such as work/family interface, violence, family dysfunction, family crisis, divorce, and the transition to marriage and parenthood. The contributors make suggestions for change in family policy, family therapy, and family life education, and conclude with an overview of the current state of families and future directions. This comprehensive and interesting volume is for students, family researchers, sociologists, psychologists, counselors, family life educators, and policy analysts. "True to its aim it informs about the latest understandings and tools of intervention to help overcome the formidable challenges to the family.there is some worthy scholarship to be found in this volume.chapter 3 on gender and role change is a lively and readable summary." --British Journal of Social Work "[This volume] has much to offer. For example, the volume contains demographic information often needed by practitioners and policymakers at a moment's notice. Literature reviews not only summarize research on a particular topic but also are organized around a theoretical framework. Well-known authors have contributed scholarly, insightful commentaries on current family issues and challenges for the future. In short, this book provides information that practitioners and policymakers could use to do the following: establish the need and rationale for programming and applied research, justify the expenditure of funds for children and families, ground their work in theory and research, conduct in-service education, and consider program evaluation strategies. This book is well-written and provides a valuable resource for the intended readership. I look forward to the second volume." --Journal of Marriage and the Family

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brubaker, Timothy H.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Tod, Sterbehilfe: Soziale und Ethische Themen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Familiensoziologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Psychiatrie, Sozialpsychiatrie, Suchttherapie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Entwicklungspsychologie Familienpsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Challenges to the American Family - Judy A Kimberly and Timothy H Brubaker
Family Continuity and Change - David H Olsen
A Family Life Cycle Perspective
Gender Role Change in Families - Joan Huber
A Macrosociological View
PART ONE: CHALLENGES TO THE FAMILY
The Transition to Marriage - Judith L Fischer and Donna L Sollie
Network Supports and Coping
Supporting Parent-Child Relationships in the Early Years - Douglas R Powell
Lessons Learned and Yet to be Learned
Work and Family Relationships - Patricia Voydanoff
Families and Marital Disruption - Marilyn Coleman and Lawrence H Ganong
Abuse in the Family - Sally A Lloyd and Beth C Emery
An Ecological, Life Cycle Perspective
Resiliency in Families - Hamilton I McCubbin, Marilyn A McCubbin and Anne I Thompson
The Role of Family Schema and Appraisal in Family Adaptation to Crises
PART TWO: FAMILY INTERVENTIONS
Life-Span Family Life Education - Charles B Hennon and Margaret Arcus
Marital Therapy in the Twenty-First Century - Anthony P Jurich and Candyce S Russell
State and Federal Initiatives in Family Policy - Steven K Wisensale
Lessons from the 80s, Proposals for the 90s