This Second Edition presents a synthesis and analysis of the vast literature that has emerged in recent years detailing families′ responses to various transitions and other stressful life events. This book is intended to serve as a basic or supplementary text for undergraduate and introductory graduate courses on family or social problems. Families & Change, Second Edition will also be useful to professionals, novices, and those with considerable experience, especially in social work, education, and public health, which are increasingly being required to work with family problems.

Product Description: Using a consistent theoretical orientation, Families Across Time explores the "life course" approach to family life--including parent-child, spousal, and sibling relationships. It reflects the diversity represented in contemporary families as they grapple with changes and transitions in family relationships during the life cycle...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: All families face problems, crises, transitions and change. Some problems, like illness, family and work stresses, and death, are predictable. Others, such as divorce, homelessness and substance abuse, may or may not touch individual families...read more

Product Description: Price and McKenry's book synthesizes the current state of knowledge on divorce, summarizing recent scientific findings and describing the sociological and psychological processes involved in this major life transition. The importance of the roles of societal turmoil, economic conditions and the presence of children in divorce cannot be overemphasized and the authors reflect this...read more