ABSTRACT

This volume, the result of the second annual Summer Institute sponsored by the Family Research Consortium, focuses on family transitions--both normative and non-normative. The subject of family transitions has been a central concern of the consortium largely because studies of families in motion help to highlight mechanisms leading to adaptation and dysfunction. This text represents a collective effort to understand the techniques individuals and families employ to adapt to the pressing issues they encounter along their life course.

part 1|76 pages

Perspectives

chapter 1|28 pages

Individual and Family Life Transitions

A Proposal for a New Definition

part 2|168 pages

Normative and Nonnormative Transitions

chapter 4|31 pages

Becoming a Family

Marriage, Parenting, and Child Development

chapter 7|24 pages

Antisocial Parents

Unskilled and Vulnerable

chapter 8|26 pages

Effective Communication

Enabling Multiproblem Families to Change

part III|57 pages

Metaphors and Models

chapter 9|26 pages

Chaos and Regulated Change in Families

A Metaphor for the Study of Transitions