Contents
Introduction
* The Family Stress Process: The Double ABCX Model of Adjustment and
Adaptation
* Critical Transitions Over the Family Life Span: Theory and Research
* Family Stress as Community Frame
* Family Problem Solving and Family Stress
* Individual Coping Efforts and Family Studies: Conceptual and
Methodological Issues
* Social Support and Family Stress
* Contribution of Personality Research to an Understanding of Stress
and Aging
* Family Divorce and Separation: Theory and Research
* Mundane Extreme Environmental Stress in Family Stress Theories: The
Case of Black Families in White America
* Analytic Essay: Family Stress and Bereavement
* Researching Family Stress
* Reference Notes Included
