Family Stress Management: A Contextual Approach 3rd Revised edition

This text describes the external and internal contexts of family stress, focusing on the role of culture, history, economy, development, heredity, and structural, psychological, and philosophical factors and a family's beliefs and values. It describes these factors within a framework, the Contextual Model of Family Stress, to understand family stress and the prevention of crisis, and it also addresses family coping, adapting, and managing. Reorganized and rewritten, this edition has a new emphasis on diversity, using grief to illustrate multicultural perspectives, and clarifies the differences between ambiguous loss and boundary ambiguity, coping and resilience, and family vs. community. It emphasizes family function over family structure and has more on resilience and community as resources for support. Annotation ©2016 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
The Third Edition of Family Stress Management by Pauline Boss, Chalandra M. Bryant, and Jay A. Mancini continues its original commitment to recognize both the external and internal contexts in which distressed families find themselves. With its hallmark Contextual Model of Family Stress (CMFS), the Third Edition provides practitioners and researchers with a useful framework to understand and help distressed individuals, couples, and families. The example of a universal stressor—a death in the family—highlights cultural differences in ways of coping. Throughout, there is new emphasis on diversity and the nuances of family stress management—such as ambiguous loss—plus new discussions on family resilience and community as resources for support.