Stress And The Family

Coping With Catastrophe

Charles R. Figley, Hamilton I. McCubbin (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

299 Seiten

1983
Brunner-Mazel Inc (Verlag)
978-0-87630-332-0 (ISBN)

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First Published in 1983. All families experience stress: the adjustment period when an infant is born; the many problems engendered by adolescents; role, dual-career, and work demands; environmental and societal problems; sexuality; divorce; marital tension; and the stress inherent in single parenting and stepparenting. In addition, families are frequently confronted by unexpected, stress-causing catastrophes: chronic illness and death addiction; abandonment by a spouse; unemployment; rape; national and international political crises; and natural disasters. Stress and the Family, Volume II: Coping With Catastrophe shows how the family produces and reacts to stress-causing situations and problems, and identifies a wide range of stress sources-those normal, gradual, and cumulative life stressors commonly related to intimate family interaction and development, and those sudden, unpredictable, and often overwhelming stress-causing events or circumstances arising outside the family microsystem. The volume provides a blueprint for understanding the intricate patterns of individual and family reactions to catastrophes, showing how profoundly a disaster which strikes one family member can affect the entire family. Clinicians and family researchers discuss catastrophes that impact families infrequently, but without warning and with devastating consequences. Each chapter opens with a brief case study of a family struggling with the aftermath of a particular catastrophe.Coping With Catastrophe, and its companion volume, Coping With Normative Transitions, are based upon research, theories, and techniques in this area from both family therapy and sociology. The clear, practical intervention methods described and meticulous structural organization make both volumes pioneering textbooks for students and professionals interested not only in a comprehensive understanding of stress and the family, but also in strategies for helping families develop effective coping styles.

Figley, Charles R.; McCubbin, Hamilton I.

Introduction 1. Catastrophes: An Overview of Family Reactions 2. Chronic Illness: Family Stress and Coping 3. Drug Abuse: Adolescent Addictions and the Family 4. Abandonment: The Stress of Sudden Divorce 5. Death: Family Adjustment to Loss 6. Unemployment: Family Strategies for Adaptation 7. Rape: Individual and Family Reactions 8. Disaster: Family Disruption in the Wake of Natural Disaster 9. War: Bringing the Battle Home 10. Captivity: The Family in Waiting 11. Looking to the Future: Research, Education, Treatment, and Policy

Reihe/Serie	Psychosocial Stress Series
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Familien- / Systemische Therapie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10	0-87630-332-7 / 0876303327
ISBN-13	978-0-87630-332-0 / 9780876303320
Zustand	Neuware