Reexamining Family Stress: New Theory and Research

by Shirley Klein and Wesley R. Burr

This challenging new inquiry liberates the study of family stress from the traditional positivist notions of the ABC-X model, favouring a new systemic paradigm which views stress as a multifaceted phenomenon with multiple causes and coping strategies.

Using a series of qualitative and quantitative studies of different families in stress, the authors outline the various patterns of family responses to stress, the elements of the family system...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803949308
• ISBN13: 9780803949300
• Release Date: November 1993
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 8.6"