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Informationen zum Autor Michael W. Yogman is Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. T. Berry Brazelton is Professor Emeritus at the Brazelton Institute, Boston Children’s Hospital, and Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, Emeritus, at Harvard Medical School. Klappentext In this book we have used broad concepts of systems to find commonalities across the stresses facing parents! such as chronic illness! divorce! teenage pregnancy! and the impact of both parents' working. Zusammenfassung This book examines the effects of stress on children and parents and explores strategies for coping. The authors view the family as a dynamic system whose health is vitally related to internal relationships and interactions with other social networks. Stress in this context can be a positive or a negative influence on family health. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: The Family! Stressed yet Protected Michael Y. Yogman and T. Berry Brazelton I. Theoretical Overview: Stress and Coping in the Family System 1. Family Systems: Understanding the Family through Its Response to Chronic Illness David Reiss 2. Stress on and in the Family Jerome Kagan 3. A Developmental Perspective on Psychosocial Stress in Childhood Felton Earls II. Forces Within the Family: New Roles 4. Fathers: An Intrafamilial Perspective Ross D. Parke 5. Single Mothers and Joint Custody: Common Ground Richard N. Atkins III. Forces Outside the Family: Work and Family Life 6. Working It Out: Effects of Work on Parents and Children Ann C. Crouter and Maureen Perry-Jenkins 7. Family Life and Corporate Policies Ellen Galinsky 8. Utilitarianism in the Regulation of Corporate and Family Life Abraham Zaleznik 9. Supplemental Care for Young Children Gwen C. Morgan IV. Special Stresses 10. Family Adaptation to Divorce Kathleen A. Camara 11. The Family and Chronic Illness in Children John M. Leventhal and Barbara F. Sabbeth 12. Teenage Pregnancy Lorraine V. Klerman V. Policy Implications 13. Education of Families for Parenting Bettye M. Caldwell 14. The Social-Policy Context for Families Today Lisbeth B. Schorr! C. Arden Miller! and Amy Fine References Acknowledgments Index ...
