Stress and Coping in Later-Life Families

ISBN-13: 9780891169284 / Angielski / Twarda / 1990 / 328 str.

Mary A. Stephens;Janis H. Crowther;Stevan E. Hobfoll

Opis

In large part, this volume is a product of the 1989 Kent Psychology Forum, where the volume's contributors presented their ideas about various facets of later-life families, challenged the ideas of others, and had their own ideas challenged in return. In planning this book, the authors' goal was to invite outstanding scholars in three areas related to social gerontology - stress, social support, and caregiving. This work includes some of the best and most creative thinkers in each of the three content areas and focuses their collective attention on a problem of growing social concern - how older adults and their families cope with the vicissitudes of later life.

Spis treści

Part 1 Stress in later-life families: stress, support and well-being in later life - focusing on salient social roles. Part 2 Social resources for coping with stress in later-life  families: relational competence and adjustment in older adults - implications for the demands of aging. Part 3 The impact of providing care for later-life families - are they effective and why?

O autorze

Mary A Stephens, Janis H Crowther, Stevan E Hobfoll, Daniel L. Tennenbaum