Stress, Coping, and Health in Families: Sense of Coherence and Resiliency

by Hamilton Ii McCubbin, Elizabeth A. Thompson, Anne I. Thompson, Julie E. Fromer

Overview

Rather than investigating the pathology of families under stress, this book takes the unusual step of studying individuals, families and ethnic groups moving towards health. This approach provides new insights as to why some families manage life events with relative ease and recover from adversity with renewed strength, harmony and purpose. The contributors develop the concept of a family and culturally induced sense of coherence as the key to promoting health and well-being.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761913962
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	06/08/1998
Series:	Resiliency in Families Series , #1
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.00(d)

Editorial Reviews

This inaugural publication of the Center for Excellence in Family Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, is based on Aaron Antonovsky's theory of salutogenesis (per his 1984 "The sense of coherence as a determinant of health" in Matarazzo, et al., eds. ) encompassing the concepts of resiliency and sense of coherence. These 35 adherents highlight the power of families more than their deficits in empirical studies on coherence related to families, aging, and most intriguingly, possible impact on immunology<--> featuring families of diverse ethnicities and dis/abilities. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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