Beyond the Average Divorce provides marriage and family scholars and students a rich depiction of how children and adults of all ages respond to diverse divorce experiences. Rather than emphasizing means and averages in looking at ‘typical’ family reactions to divorce, authors David H. Demo and Mark A. Fine emphasize variability and change over time in the pre-divorce, divorce, and post-divorce process. The book′s three parts explore theoretical and methodological tools for studying divorce, the divorce process and its multiple pathways, and future directions in research.
Key Features
- Includes cutting-edge research on how children are affected by multiple transitions in family structure and parenting arrangements during the divorce process
- Covers the most common causes of divorce and how the family environment deteriorates during the years leading up to divorce
- Provides easy-to-understand descriptions and examples of how specific research methods can be used to study divorce
- Offers a dynamic theoretical model of divorce and how it is experienced by family members in a wide variety of family situations
- Discusses policy implications as well as directions for future theoretical, research, and clinical work in this vital area
Beyond the Average Divorce is intended as a core textbook for use in upper-level undergraduate or graduate courses in Family Stress and Divorce, Dysfunctional Families, Sociology of the Family, and Couples, Marriage, and Family Counseling.
Daftar Isi
Ch 1. Introduction: Variations in and Fluidity of Divorce Experiences and Outcomes
PART I: THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL TOOLS FOR STUDYING THE DIVORCE PROCESS
Ch 2. Conceptualizing Divorce Variation and Fluidity
Ch 3. Research Methods for Stuyding Variation and Fluidity in Divorce
Ch 4. Divorce and Family Transitions in Societal Context
PART II: THE DIVORCE PROCESS AND ITS MULTIPLE PATHWAYS
Ch 5. Variations in Predivorce Family Environments and Trajectories
Ch 6. Variations in Separation and Uncoupling
Ch 7. Variation and Fluidity in Adult Adjustment to Divorce
Ch 8. Variation and Fluidity in Children′s Adjustment to Divorce
Ch 9. Adult and Child Experiences of Multiple Family Structure Transitions
PART III: FUTURE DIRECTIONS
Ch 10. Implications and Conclusions
References
Tentang Penulis
Mark Fine is a Professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies at the University of Missouri – Columbia. He was Editor of Family Relations from 1993-1996 and was Editor of the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships from 1999-2004. His research interests lie in the areas of family transitions, such as divorce and remarriage; early intervention program evaluation; social cognition, and relationship stability. He was co-editor, along with David Demo and Katherine Allen, of the Handbook of family diversity, published in 2000 by Oxford University Press. He co-authored, along with John Harvey, Children of divorce: Stories of hope and loss in 2004 by Erlbaum; co-edited, with John Harvey, The handbook of divorce and relationship dissolution in 2005 by Erlbaum; and co-edited, with Jean Ispa and Kathy Thornburg, Keepin′ on: The everyday struggles of young families in poverty, published in 2006 by Brookes Publishing Company. He has published almost 200 peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, and books. In 2000, he was selected as a Fellow of the National Council on Family Relations. Dr. Fine is a licensed psychologist and maintains a small clinical practice.
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