Families and Change: Coping With Stressful Events and Transitions

This book will publish in a new edition on 10/27/2009. We are no longer supplying instructors with complimentary review copies of this edition.* Please click here to request a review copy of the new edition.

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• Enhanced for classroom use.  Chapters open with brief introductions, include intervention suggestions, and close with web resources and references.
• Increased emphasis on resiliency.
• Added content. Three new chapters on external disasters, everyday hassles, and interventions conclude the book.
• Revised and updated throughout.  All chapters have been thoroughly revised and updated, and a new chapter on relationship stress modifies chapter two from the previous edition emphasizing a more applied focus looking at intimate relationships both within and outside of marriage.  

Families and Change, Third Edition is an essential text for upper-division undergraduate and master′s students in departments of Human Development & Family Studies, Marriage & Family Therapy, and Sociology & Social Work. McKenry′s text is also a valuable tool for professionals and practitioners who work with families across the disciplinary boundaries of family therapy, family psychology, social work, family life education, and nursing.  

Patrick C. McKenry, deceased, was Professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies at the Ohio State University. His research focused on families and stress, with particular interest in family conflict and violence, postdivorce adjustment, variations in coping by gender and race, and the role of conflict and violence in the coparenting process after divorce. He published extensively in the marriage and family literature and coauthored or coedited with Sharon Price Divorce, Families Across Time: A Life Course Perspective, and all three editions of Families and Change: Coping with Stressful Events and Transitions. He was a member of the American Sociological Association and the National Council on Family Relations, where he has held several leadership positions. He was also the recipient of three Ohio State University awards for excellence in teaching and research. He received his Ph.D. at the University of Tennessee and was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Georgia.

Sharon J. Price is Professor Emerita and former Head of the Department of Child and Family Development at the University of Georgia. She has published extensively in professional journals and coauthored or coedited several books. She won several teaching awards including the Osborne Award, presented by the National Council on Family Relations, and the highest honor for teaching at the University of Georgia, the Josiah Meigs Award. She was active in several professional organizations, serving in many capacities, including President of the National Council on Family Relations, and is a Fellow in NCFR. She earned her PhD from Iowa State University.