Books in the Advances in Family Research Series series

The goal of this text is to provide participants with a greater understanding of both the conceptual issues involved in the study of continuity and change in families, and also some of the methodological approaches that have been developed for investigating families over time.

Focusing on stress and adaptability in families and family members, this text explores how a variety of stresses influence family functioning and how family process moderates and mediates the contribution of individual and environmental risk and protective factors to personal adjustment.

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. This text represents a collective effort to understand the techniques individuals and families employ to adapt to the pressing issues they encounter along their life course.

This volume examines ways in which families are influenced by outside agencies, and how families influence the functioning of children and adults in extra-familial settings - school, work, and peer group contexts. The contributors also look at the processes that account for this mutual influence.

This volume presents theory and research from scholars working on issues of risks and resilience in families. Focusing on the splits and bonds that shape children's development, the authors attempt to stimulate theoretical and empirical advances in research on family processes.

This volume focuses on the study of both continuity & change in family relationships. Each chapter addresses a substantive issue in research on changes in family relationships, & also directs the reader's attention to the methods employed & how they

This book presents theory and research from leading scholars working on issues of risk and resilience in families, in this case on the splits and bonds that shape children's development. For developmental, social, clinical psychologists and sociologists.

First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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. This text represents a collective effort to understand the techniques individuals and families employ to adapt to the pressing issues they encounter along their life course.

Because chronic disorder is becoming an ordinary feature of family life and development, understanding its impact has become critical. This volume, and the conference proceedings it reports, represents a major effort to examine the family''s response to chronic physical or psychopathological illness in one or more of its members. Recent data are revising our notions of chronic illness. Evidence is mounting that chronic psychiatric disorders reflect, in part, abnormalities of brain structure and function. In this sense, they are, in part, medical disorders. On the other hand, a number of traditionally labeled medical disorders produce a broad range of psychological symptoms and are exquisitely sensitive to psychosocial influences. Families undergo a complex process of adaptation during which their response to stress and their fundamental beliefs about learning and parenting change. These beliefs endure and are difficult to alter. By examining the processes in a wide range of chronic conditions, this volume helps to identify the common, underlying processes of adaptation. The first three chapters concern the families'' responses to disorders that are distinctly medical; the next three focus on families'' responses to "grey zone" disorders or anomalies that appear early in life, minor physical anomalies, and communication handicaps; and one chapter focuses exclusively on schizophrenia. The last chapter reflects an effort to develop a model based on the experience of researchers with both psychiatric and medical illness.