Family Interaction: A Multigenerational Developmental Perspective - Hardcover

Anderson, Stephen A.; Sabatelli, Ronald M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0205142109 ISBN 13: 9780205142101

Publisher: Allyn & Bacon, 1995

Synopsis

Using a family systems and a multigenerational, developmental framework, this text highlights the challenges faced by contemporary families as they move through time. It offers a comprehensive overview of the major conceptual models that are used to understand the patterns and dynamics that operate in families. It provides readers with an overview of the basic tasks that all families must execute regardless of their particular composition or living situation and, at the same time, offers readers an appreciation of the variety and uniqueness in how each family develops its patterns of interaction. All families must develop a shared sense of identity, create a nurturing emotional environment, manage resources, deal with stress, and negotiate successful boundaries between individual members and with the outside world. Yet it is the uniqueness of each family, its structural organization, and its particular cultural, ethnic, racial heritage, and gender orientation that will influence the strategies that evolve to meet these challenges. This book offers a unique vantage point on the family.Its emphasis is on integration-particularly an integration of family systems, family development, and intergenerational perspectives.

About this title

From the Back Cover

Most individuals intuitively "know" what it means to be a member of a family. After all, most of us were raised in one. But in each family there are dramatic differences. Each family creates its own culture within a culture. This intimate mini-society has its own unique rules and obligations -- dynamics and boundaries must shift and accomodate, stress levels and moods must be managed, and "the family," though full of diverse individuals of various ages, must somehow develop a shared sense of identity, and foster a nurturing emotional environment. Using a family systems and a multigenerational, developmental framework, this book highlights the challenges faced by contemporary societies as they move through time. This book offers a comprehensive overview of the major conceptual models that are used to understand the patterns and dynamics that operate in families. In its look at the structural organization, as well as the particular cultural, ethnic, racial heritage, and gender orientation of the family, this book offers strategies that families employ to meet challenges, while emphasizing the integration of family systems, family development, and intergenerational perspectives. Sociologists, family therapists, marriage counselors, psychologists, nurses, and families.

About the Author

Stephen Anderson is a Professor in the Department of Human Development & Family Studies at the University of Connecticut.  He is Director of the Marriage and Family Therapy Program and the Center for Applied Research in Human Development.  He received his Ph.D. in Marriage and Family Therapy from Kansas State University. His research interests include - Youth Development, Assessment of Family Functioning, Couple and Family Violence, Family Therapy Supervision and Training, and Program Evaluation.

 

Ronald Sabatelli is Professor & Department Head of the Department of Human Development & Family Studies at the University of Connecticut. He received his Ph.D. in Family Studies from the University of Connecticut.  His research interests include how family of origin experiences influence the structure and experience of parenthood and romantic relationships; youth development, and the assessment of relationship and family functioning. He is currently the editor of Family Relations, an interdisciplinary journal of applied family studies, published on behalf of the National Council on Family Relations.

Edition details

• Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0205142109
• ISBN 13: 9780205142101
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 354