Product Description: This thoroughly revised edition of a classic text uses a topical organization to emphasize the processes of development. It examines a variety of theoretical viewpoints, providing students with a well balanced view of a child’s developmental process; all of the chapters are thoroughly grounded in research...read more

A groundbreaking study on the psychological and social effects of divorce draws on three decades of research of some 1,400 families and provides a wealth of relevant information on divorce, including how women and girls experience divorce differently than men and boys, the impact of second marriages, and how the aftermath of divorce can be a pathway to healing and fulfillment.

A groundbreaking study of the psychological and social effects of divorce, drawn from close to three decades of research, explores and discusses a wealth of relevant issues such as how women and girls experience divorce differently than men and boys, and reveals that the aftermath of divorce can be a pathway to healing and fulfillment. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.

Product Description: This longitudinal study examines family relationships and the adjustment of two adolescent siblings, varying in the degree of biological relatedness, in non-stepfamiles and in stabilized simple and complex stepfamilies. Family relationships and children's adjustment were assessed using interview and questionnaire measures obtained from mothers, fathers/stepfathers, and the two siblings and from observational measures of family interactions in the home...read more

In this volume leading researchers offer an interesting and accessible overview of what we now know about risk and protective factors for family functioning and child adjustment in different kinds of families. They explore interactions among individual, familial, and extrafamilial risk and protective factors in an attempt to explain the great diversity in parents' and children's responses to different kinds of experiences associated with marriage, divorce, life in a single parent household, and remarriage.

Product Description: Concern with stress and coping has a long history in biomedical, psychological and sociological research. The inadequacy of simplistic models linking stressful life events and adverse physical and psychological outcomes was pointed out in the early 1980s in a series of seminal papers and books...read more

Product Description: Book by Hetherington, Mavis, Clingempeel, W. Glenn, Anderson, Edward R., Deal, James E.

Product Description: This volume, the result of the second annual Summer Institute sponsored by the Family Research Consortium, focuses on family transitions--both normative and non-normative. The subject of family transitions has been a central concern of the consortium largely because studies of families in motion help to highlight mechanisms leading to adaptation and dysfunction...read more

Product Description: This book, a result of a conference sponsored by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, explores developmental and clinical evidence of how divorce, and the transition to single parenting and stepparenting affects children...read more

Product Description: Comprised of papers written by members of the Social Science Research Council Subcommittee on Child Development in Life-Span Perspective, this book provides a representation of the current status of the relation between child development and the life- span...read more

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