Stress and coping in families - Katheryn Maguire

During difficult times, families can be our greatest resource, or our
heaviest burden. This book brings together research from a wide variety
of disciplines to examine family interaction in the context of stressful
situations. Instead of claiming that one type of interaction is better
than other, seemingly unproductive forms of communication, the approach
taken by the author recognizes that messages can have varying, sometimes
unexpected consequences when a family is distressed. In addition to
introducing students, scholars, and practitioners to the stress and
coping literatures from both the individual and family perspectives, the
book offers an in-depth examination of how relational communication
scholars have contributed to this important and rich body of research.
The book also explores family stress and coping within three specific
contexts (military family separation, breast cancer, the transition to
parenthood) and provides readers with the opportunity to apply their
knowledge through case studies and examples from families who have lived
through these difficult situations.