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Tables of Contents for Family Stress Management
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
ix
Acknowledgments
xiii
What Is New?
1
14
What Is New in Family Stress Theory?
2
12
Summary
14
1
The Contextual Model: Understanding Family Stress in Science and Practice
15
24
Family Stress Versus Individual Stress: A Conceptual Dilemma
16
1
Family Stress Defined
16
2
Defining the Family: A Matter of Bias
18
3
General Systems Theory: The Family as System
21
1
Symbolic Interaction as a Base for Studying Perceptions and Meanings
22
3
Diversity and Multiculturalism in Family Stress Management
25
1
Gender in Family Stress Management
26
2
Why a Contextual Model?
28
2
Looking Back
30
5
The Theory-Building Process for Science and Practice
35
4
Definitions: A Guide to Family Stress Theory
39
32
The Family's External Context
40
4
The Family's Internal Context
44
2
The ABC of Family Stress: A Frame for Definitions
46
1
Stressor Event (Stressful Event) Defined
47
3
Classification of Family Stressor Events
50
7
The Primacy of Perceptions in the Contextual Model of Family Stress
57
2
The Meaning to the Family of a Stressful Event or Situation
59
1
Perceptions of Events Can Be Distorted
60
1
Family Stress Defined
61
1
Family Crisis Defined
62
6
Family Strain (Burnout) Defined
68
3
Coping, Adapting, Being Resilient... or Is It Managing?
71
22
Coping in Individual Stress Theory
73
4
Family and Individual Coping and Resiliency: The Need for a Dialectical View
77
1
Family Coping Defined
78
1
Deductive Evidence for the Social-Psychological Definition of Family Coping
79
2
The Possibility of ``Inherited'' Coping Strategies
81
1
A Caution About Coping and Resiliency
81
4
Complexities of Coping
85
2
The Chain Reaction of Stressor Events
87
1
Family Coping Resources
88
1
Family Managing as Outcome
89
4
Boundary Ambiguity: A Risk Factor in Family Stress Management
93
20
The Family's Internal Context
93
1
Family Boundary Ambiguity
94
10
Normative Boundary Ambiguity in Families Throughout the Life Cycle
104
9
The Link Between Ambiguity and Ambivalence in Family Stress Management
113
10
Theoretical Roots
114
1
Definitions and Differences Between Ambiguity and Ambivalence
114
5
Linking Ambiguity and Ambivalence to Family Stress Management, Resilience, and Context
119
4
Denial: Barrier or Buffer in Family Stress Management?
123
12
How Some Families Break Through Denial
130
5
Family Values and Belief Systems: Influences on Family Stress Management
135
14
Why Values and Beliefs Are Important
136
2
Values and Beliefs as They Affect ``Blaming the Victim''
138
5
Values and Beliefs About Gender: Are They Related to Family Stress Management?
143
6
The Family's External Context
149
10
External Forces With Which Families Contend
150
6
Societal Pressure on the Family
156
3
Family Crisis: Overcoming Trauma and Victimization
159
16
Family Victimization as Crisis
161
2
Self-Blame: Is It Helpful?
163
1
Chronic Threat of Victimization From Outside the Family
164
1
Chronic Victimization From Inside the Family
165
1
Cultural Violence and Victimization
166
2
The Theory of a Just World
168
1
Flaws in the Just World Theory
169
2
Empowering Victimized Families
171
4
Where Have We Been and Where Are We Going?
175
12
Where Have We Been?
175
1
Where Are We Going? Recommendations for Future Research and Practice
176
6
What Is Still Needed?
182
2
The Dilemma Remains: Do We Focus on the Individual or the Family?
184
1
Final Thoughts
184
3
Postscript
187
2
References
189
18
Index
207
10
About the Author
217