Beschreibung:
This book is the product of a multi-year initiative, sponsored by the Division of Family Psychology (43) of the American Psychological Association, the Family Institute at Northwestern University, Oxford University Press, and Northwestern University, to bring together the leading researchersin family psychology in five major areas of great social and health relevance -- good marriage, depression, divorce and remarriage, partner violence, and families and physical health. The book embodies a series of five systematically and developmentally informed mini-books or manuals, criticallyexamining the existing research in each area and illuminating new directions for future research. The chapters in each area cover a wide range of distinct issues and diverse populations. Through a pre-publication face-to-face two-day conference, the editors invited each of the authors in eachspecific domain to collaborate and coordinate their chapters, creating a synergy for the development of new knowledge. Additionally, the editors encouraged the authors to step outside of their own specific research program to reflect on the unique challenges and opportunities in their researchdomain. The resulting book provides the next generation of theorists, researchers, and therapists with an in-depth and fresh look at what has been done and what remains to be done in each area. If you are a social scientist working in these or related areas, the book will sharpen and stimulate yourresearch. If you are a young researcher or are contemplating entering the field of family psychology, the book lays out pathways and strategies for entering and unraveling the mysteries in each area. Lastly, if you aresomeone who wants to understand the state of art of research in these veryrelevant domains, this book takes you to the top of mountain with very best guides and provides a vista that compels and illuminates.
A scientific paradigm for fmaily psychology; PART I: MARRIAGE AND MARITAL INTERVENTION; 1. A critical view of marital satisfaction; 2. A science of couple therapy: for what should we seek empirical support?; 3. The mismeasure of therapy: treatment outcomes in marital therapy research; 4. Emotion and the repair of close relationships; 5. A sampling of theoretical, methodological and policy issues in marriage education: Implications for family psychology; PART II: PARTNER VIOLENCE: PARTICIPANT PERSPECTIVES AND TREATMENT; 6. A life span developmental systems perspective on aggression toward a partner; 7. Partner violence and men: a focus on the male perpetrator; 8. Women in intimate partner violence: major advances and new directions; 9. Partner violence and children; 10. Can partner aggression be stopped with psychosocial interventions?; PART III: FAMILIES IN DIVORCE AND REMARRIAGE: FAMILY MEMBER PERSPECTIVES; 11. Remarriage and stepfamilies; 12. Promoting better fathering among divorced nonresident fathers; 13. Fathers in African American families: the importance of social and cultural context; 14. Mothers in transition: model-based strategies for effective parenting; PART IV: FAMILIES AND DEPRESSION; 15. Disentangling causality in the associations between couple and family processes and depression; 16. A relational perspective on depressed children: family patterns and interventions; 17. Adolescent depression: family focused treatment strategies; 18. Marital discord in the context of a depressive episode: research on efficacy and effectiveness; 19. Toward culturally-centered and evidence-based treatments for depressed adolescents; PART V: FAMILIES AND HEALTH; 20. Families, health and illness: the search for pathways and mechanisms of effect; 21. Weaving gold out of straw: meaning-making in families who have children with chronic illnesses; 22. Using family models in health research: a framework for family intervention in chronic disease