The first comprehensive text on stress and crisis management specifically tailored to courses focusing on the family. Organized by stress model, this book helps readers understand the relationships among models, research, crisis prevention, and crisis management with individuals and families. Providing a balance of theory, research, hands-on applications, and intervention strategies, this innovative text presents a comprehensive overview of the field. An ideal core text for upper division undergraduate and graduate students in courses such as Family Crisis, Family Stress and Coping, and Dysfunctions in Marriage and Family.
The Pew Internet & American Life Project is one of seven projects that make up the Pew Research Center, a nonpartisan, nonprofit "fact tank" that provides information on the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. The Project produces reports exploring the impact of the internet on families, communities, work and home, daily life, education, health care, and civic and political life. The Project aims to be an authoritative source on the evolution of the internet through surveys that examine how Americans use the internet and how their activities affect their lives.
Mapping Latina/o Sexualities Research in the United States
Dr. Marysol Ascencio, Associate Professor, University of Connecticut, Human Development and Family Studies and Puerto Rican and Latino Studies A review of the complexities, challenges, and gaps in current research and scholarship. The Latina/o population is the largest minority group in the United States, but understanding is limited and often colored by simplistic or stereotypical images.
The Impact of Family Acceptance and Rejection on Risk and Well- Being for LGBT Youth
Caitlin Ryan, Ph.D., ACSW, Director of Adolescent Health Initiatives, Cesar E. Chavez Institute, San Francisco State University Little has been known about the role of families and caregivers in contributing to risk or well-being for LGBT adolescents and adults. Dr. Ryan will discuss new research from the Family Assistance Project on acceptance and rejection and a resulting family-related model of prevention and care.
Rosemary Blieszner received her Ph.D. from The Pennsylvania State University in Human Development–Family Studies with a major concentration in adult development and aging and a minor in sociology/social psychology. Her research has been supported by NIH and several foundations. She has published four books, with two more under contract, as well as nearly 100 book chapters and research articles in gerontology, family studies, psychology, sociology, and personal relationships journals. In 1997-98 she received the university’s Alumni Award for Teaching Excellence, in 2000 she received the Alumni Recognition Award from the College of Health and Human Development at The Pennsylvania State University, and in 2002 she was named Alumni Distinguished Professor, a position held by 10 faculty members at the university. She currently serves as editor of Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences.
