Strong Families Around the World (eBook, PDF)

Strengths-Based Research and Perspectives
Redaktion: Defrain, John; Asay, Sylvia

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The strengths of families from culture to culture, when compared to each other, are remarkably similar and give us common ground around the world upon which to unite and develop mutual understanding. Strengths-Based Research and Perspectives: Strong Families Around the World, provides a conceptual framework for global family strengths, discussing the diverse strengths and challenges that families face regardless of location. This book presents 43 expert authors from 18 countries in all seven major areas in the world who explain what it means to be a family in the context of their country and the challenges their country faces in the world today.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 492
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317960218
• Artikelnr.: 41067344

Autorenporträt

John DeFrain, Sylvia Asay

Inhaltsangabe

* Comments (Suzanne K. Steinmetz)
* Preface (Gary W. Peterson)
* Strong Families Around the World: An Introduction to the Family
Strengths Perspective (John DeFrain and Sylvia M. Asay)
* AFRICA
* Family Strengths: South Africa (Busisiwe Nkosi and Priscilla Daniels)
* Family Strengths Perspectives from Botswana (Lois R. Mberengwa)
* Family Strengths and Challenges in Kenya (Jane Rose M. Njue, Dorothy
O. Rombo, and Lucy W. Ngige)
* Strengths in Somali Families (Hawa Ibrahim A. Koshen)
* THE MIDDLE EAST
* The Resilience of Families in Israel: Understanding Their Struggles
and Appreciating Their Strengths (Maha N. Younes)
* The Omani Family: Strengths and Challenges (Thuwayba A. Al-Barwani
and Tayfour S. Albeely)
* ASIA
* Chinese Family Strengths and Resiliency (Anqi Xu, Xiaolin Xie, Wenli
Liu, Yan Xia, and Dalin Liu)
* Strengths and Challenges in the Indian Family (Nilufer P. Medora)
* How Strong Families Encounter Social Challenges in the Republic of
Korea (Young Ju Yoo, Insoo Lee, and Gyesook Yoo)
* OCEANIA
* The Shaping of Strengths and Challenges of Australian Families:
Implications for Policy and Practice (Judi Geggie, Ruth Weston, Alan
Hayes, and Simone Silberberg)
* New Zealand Families (Richard Cook)
* NORTH AMERICA
* Canada and Family Life (Benjamin Schlesinger)
* Family Strengths and Challenges in the USA (John DeFrain and Sylvia
M. Asay)
* LATIN AMERICA
* Strengths and Challenges of Mexican Families in the 21st Century
(Rosario Esteinou)
* Culture-Related Strengths Among Latin American Families: A Case Study
of Brazil (Gustavo Carlo, Silvia Koller, Marcela Raffaelli, and Maria
R. T. de Guzman)
* EUROPE
* Russian Families: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on
Problems and Strengths (Vladimir Zubkov)
* The Family Strengths in Greece Then and Now (Theodora
Kaldi-Koulikidou)
* Family Strengths in Romania (Bogdan Nadolu, Ioana Delia Nadolu, and
Sylvia M. Asay)
* Epilogue: A Strengths-Based Conceptual Framework for Understanding
Families World-Wide (John DeFrain and Sylvia M. Asay)
* Index
* Reference Notes Included