Families and change - Patrick C McKenry

`Provides useful, comparative background as well as directly useful and relevant information for other contexts' - Journal of the Institute of Health Education

This Second Edition presents a synthesis and analysis of the vast literature that has emerged in recent years detailing families' responses to various transitions and other stressful life events.

This book will be useful to professionals, novices and those with considerable experience, especially in social work, education and public health, who are increasingly being required to work with family problems.