Families and Change: Coping with Stressful Events and Transitions - Softcover

`Provides useful, comparative background as well as directly useful and relevant information for other contexts' - Journal of the Institute of Health Education

This Second Edition presents a synthesis and analysis of the vast literature that has emerged in recent years detailing families' responses to various transitions and other stressful life events.

This book will be useful to professionals, novices and those with considerable experience, especially in social work, education and public health, who are increasingly being required to work with family problems.

Patrick C. McKenry, deceased, was Professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies at the Ohio State University. His research focused on families and stress, with particular interest in family conflict and violence, postdivorce adjustment, variations in coping by gender and race, and the role of conflict and violence in the coparenting process after divorce. He published extensively in the marriage and family literature and coauthored or coedited with Sharon Price Divorce, Families Across Time: A Life Course Perspective, and all three editions of Families and Change: Coping with Stressful Events and Transitions. He was a member of the American Sociological Association and the National Council on Family Relations, where he has held several leadership positions. He was also the recipient of three Ohio State University awards for excellence in teaching and research. He received his Ph.D. at the University of Tennessee and was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Georgia.