Families, Risk, and Competence

by Michael Lewis

The problems of studying families arise from the difficulty in studying systems where there are multiple elements interacting with each other and with the child. How should this system be described? Still other problems relate to indirect effects; namely the influence of a particular dyad's interaction on the child when the child is not a member of the dyad. While all agree that the mother-father relationship has important bearing on the child's development,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080582345X
• ISBN13: 9780805823455
• Release Date: July 1998
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"