The modern life cycle is characterized by stressful transitions, when unexpected events-and even many expected ones-challenge people's functioning, health, and sense of self-worth. The international, multidisciplinary perspectives provided in the Handbook of Stressful Transitions Across the Lifespan cover these periods as they occur through youth, adulthood, and aging, bringing together theoretical and clinical findings, case studies, and literature reviews in one authoritative volume.

Covers the entire lifespan

Processing Transitions in the Life Span.-Life Stress and Transitions in the Life Span.-Eriksonian Theory Applied to Transitions in the Span.-The Effects of Treatment Interventions on the Adult Brain due to Stressful Transitions in the Life Span.-Identity Transitions in the Life Span.-Stress, Mindful Parenting and the Transition to Adulthood.-Transitioning Recent Mass Trauma.-Education and Career Transitions.-The Career Transitions Faced by Adolescents and Young Adults.-The Impact of Trauma History on College Engagement.-Career Transitions Faced by Adolescents and Young Adults.-Life Cycle Transitions.-Ethical and Legal Issues in transitioning the Life Span.-Financial transitions across the life Span.-Assessing, Moderating, and Modifying Implicit Cognitive Processes in Alcohol and Drug Misuse in transitioning adulthood.-Coping with the Workplace and Job-related Transitions.-Trauma Growth After a Traumatic Event.-Family Transitions.-Life Course Transitions: Marriage, Birth and Divorce.-War and Trauma: Transitioning Back into Civilian Life.-Becoming an Adoptive Parent: The Transition to Adoptive Parenthood as a Stressful Life Event.-Transitioning into Retirement as a Stressful Life Event.-Transitions in Health.-The Influence of Contemporary Medicine and Medical Genetics on Stressful Life Transitions.-The Role of Animals and Animal Assisted Therapy in Stressful Life Transitions.-Transition in Health: Coping with Congenital Disease.-Transitioning the diagnosis of Cancer.-Functional Fitness, Life Stress and Transitions in he Life Span.-Transitioning a Traumatic Event: Its Effect on the Adaptation to Family and Self.-Women's Sexuality Across the Adult Lifespan.-Humor as a Way of Transitioning Stressful Life Events.-Stressful Markers of Health: Transitions in Aging.-The Influence of Food on Adapting to Stressful Life Events in the Life-cycle.-Cultural and Spritual Influences in Life's Transitions.-Lifespan Development Revisited: African-Centered Spirituality Throughout the Life Cycle.-Encountering stressful events as well as normative transitions as a test of religious beliefs/coping systems.-Self Regulation across some Life Transitions.-Age-related Patterns in Social Networks Among European Americans and African Americans: Implications for Socio-emotional Selectivity Across the Lifespan.-Some Predicators of Primary Control of Development in Three Transitional.-Periods of the Life Cycle.-Concluding Comments and Future Considerations for Stressful Life Events and Transitions in the Life Span