Table of Contents:
  • Life transitions and crises : A conceptual overview / R.H. Moos & J.A. Schaefer
  • Children of divorce : The psychological tasks of the child / J.S. Wallerstein
  • Children's bereavement reactions following death of the father / E. Elizur & M. Kaffman
  • Growing up a little faster : The experience of growing up in a single-parent household / R.S. Weiss
  • Adolescents' grief reactions and self-concept perceptions following sibling death / D. Balk
  • Coping in a group of expectant adolescent fathers / S. Panzarine & A.B. Elster
  • Dual-career family stress and coping / D.A. Skinner
  • Three phases of father involvement in pregnancy / K.A. May
  • Normal stresses during the transition to parenthood / B.C. Miller & D.L. Sollie
  • Patterns of coping in divorce / K. Kressel
  • Psychological recovery in low-income single parents / J.B. Miller
  • A stepfamily in formation / J.W. Ransom, et al.
  • Men at middle age : Developmental transitions / L.M. Tamir
  • (cont.) Taking care of aged parents : A family cycle transition / B. Robinson & M. Thurnher
  • Can you survive your retirement? / L.P. Bradford
  • Slow death : One survivor's experience / D. Paulay
  • The search for meaning and its potential for affecting growth in bereaved parents / M.S. Miles & E.K. Brown Crandall
  • The Amish way of death : A study of family support systems / K.B. Bryer
  • The "home treatment" : The first steps in trying to cope with an alcoholic husband / J.P. Wiseman
  • Migration and family conflict / C.E. Sluzki
  • A typology for the classification of disasters / M.R. Berren, et al.
  • The human meaning of total disaster : The Buffalo Creek experience / R.J. Lifton & E. Olson
  • Disaster : The helper's perspective / B. Raphael, et al.
  • Psychic trauma in children : Observations following the Chowchilla school-bus kidnapping / L.C. Terr
  • (cont.) Adaptive strategies and recovery from rape / A.W. Burgess & L.L. Holmstrom
  • The victim of terrorism / F. Ochberg
  • The mental foxhole : The Vietnam veteran's search for meaning / C.C. Williams
  • What repatriated prisoners of war wrote about themselves / D.R. Jones
  • Survivors of the Nazi Holocaust / P. Chodoff.