Janice Gauthier Weber

Individual and Family Stress and Crises

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The first comprehensive text on stress and crisis management specifically tailored to courses focusing on the family Organized by stress model, this book helps readers understand the relationships among models, research, crisis prevention, and crisis management with individuals and families. Providing a balance of theory, research, hands-on applications, and intervention strategies, this innovative text presents a comprehensive overview of the field. Intended AudienceIndividual and Family Stress and Crises is ideal as a core text for upper division undergraduate and graduate students in courses such as Family Crisis, Family Stress & Coping, and Dysfunctions in Marriage & Family.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sage Publications, Inc
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 191mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 514g
• ISBN-13: 9781412936910
• ISBN-10: 1412936918
• Artikelnr.: 31259770

Autorenporträt

Janice G. Weber, Ph.D., CFLE, CFCS is an Associate Professor in the Child and Family Studies Program, University of Louisiana at Lafayette. At the university, she developed and taught for over 20 years a course entitled Families in Crisis. She has published in the area of family life education including encyclopedia articles on stress and crisis in families titled Family Crises (ABC-Clio, 2003) and Stress Management Theories and Techniques in Families (Sage, in press), as well as pedagogical materials, Analyzing a Personal Crisis (National Council on Family Relations, 1993). In addition, Dr. Weber has done numerous presentations on issues related to stress and crisis for both professional and lay audiences such as War Hits Home: How to Talk to Children; Living with Grief: Coping with Public Tragedy; Effects of Events of September 11, 2001 on College Students; Comparative Analysis of Bereavement Outcomes in Young Widowed and Divorced Women; Violence against Teachers: High School Teachers' Fears of, Experiences with, and Perceptions of Prevention; Passages: Life, Loss, and Changes; Crisis Prevention and Management; Lens on Teaching Individual and Family Stress Theory and Crisis Intervention; Get Organized: Be CALM and RELAXED; Talking to Children about War and Disasters; Making Sense of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita: The Context of Disaster; De-stressing Your Family; and Ambiguous Loss in Staff, Children, and Ourselves: What is It and what Can We Do about It?

Inhaltsangabe

PART I: HISTORY AND DEFINITION OF STRESS THEORY
1. History of Stress Theory
2. Definitions
PART II: INDIVIDUAL AND FAMILY STRESS MODELS
3. The Profile of Trouble, the Truncated Roller Coaster Profile of
Adjustment, and the Family Ecosystemic Model of Stress
4. The ABCX Formula and the Double ABCX Model
5. The Natural History of Individual Reactions to Disaster, the Components
of an Emotional Crisis, the Four Phases of Crisis Development, and the
Crisis Paradigm
6. The Family Adjustment and Adaptation Response Model
7. The Typology Model of Family Adjustment and Adaptation
8. The Resiliency Model of Family Stress, Adjustment, and Adaptation
9. The Family Distress Model and the Contextual Model of Family Stress
PART III: FLUENCY OF STRESS THEORY APPLIED TO FORMAL CRISIS MANAGEMENT
10. The History of Formal Crisis Management
11. The Practice of Formal Crisis Management
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