Marriage, divorce, and children's adjustment / / Robert E. Emery

• Autore: Emery Robert E
• Pubblicazione: Thousand Oaks, Calif., : Sage Publications, c1999
• Edizione: 2nd ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (164 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 155.4
• Soggetto topico: Children of divorced parents - Mental health; Adjustment (Psychology) in children; Families - Psychological aspects
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 133-152) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Contents -- Series Editor's Introduction -- Preface -- Chapter 1 - Overview -- Gaining Perspective on Children and Divorce -- Some Family Transitions in Divorce -- An Overview of This Book -- Chapter 2 - Some Cultural, Historical, and Demographic Perspectives -- The Changing Family -- A Brief History of Marital Dissolution in the United States -- Demographics of Divorce in the United States Today -- Family Living Circumstances of Children in the United States Today -- Children's Postdivorce Living Arrangements -- Summary -- Chapter 3 - Methodological and Conceptual Issues -- Sampling -- Measurement -- Interpreting Correlations Between Marital and Child Problems -- Temporal Influences on Children's Divorce Adjustment -- Summary -- Chapter 4 - Children's Adjustment in Divorced and Married Families -- Global Adjustment: Stress, Risk, Resilience, and Pain -- Externalizing Problems -- Internalizing Problems -- Academic Competence -- Social Competence -- Intergenerational Issues in Intimacy, Marriage, and Divorce -- Emotional Health During Adult Life -- Summary -- Chapter 5 - Family Processes and Children's Divorce Adjustment -- Adjustment Over Time and Development -- Interparental Conflict -- Separation From an Attachment Figure -- Parent-Child Relationships: Prevalence of Problems -- Parent-Child Relationships: Residential Parents -- Parent-Child Relationships: Nonresidential Parents -- Joint Physical Custody -- Economic Factors -- Remarriage -- Parental Mental Health, Siblings, and Ethnicity -- Summary -- Chapter 6 - Therapeutic Intervention: Approaches and Research -- Renegotiating Family Relationships -- Individual Coping Tasks: Grief and Identity Conflict -- Boundaries in Parent-Child Relationships -- The Coparenting Relationship -- The Parent-Child-Parent Triad -- Treatment Outcome Research on Divorce -- Family Interventions. ; School-Based Groups for Children -- Summary -- Chapter 7 - Legal Intervention: Laws, Policies, and New Directions -- The Regulation of Divorce -- Divorce Settlements -- Finances: Property Division, Alimony, and Child Support -- Legal and Physical Custody -- The Settlement of Divorce Disputes -- Divorce Mediation -- Unarticulated Values -- Summary of Suggestions for Law and Policy -- References -- Index -- About the Author.
• Sommario/riassunto: In this completely rewritten second edition, the author uses his family systems model to integrate research findings into a theoretical whole and to evaluate psychological interventions with divorcing and divorced families.
• Titolo autorizzato: Marriage, divorce, and children's adjustment
• ISBN: 1-4522-3767-0; 0-7619-0251-1; 1-322-41325-8; 1-4522-2122-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910818044403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Developmental clinical psychology and psychiatry ; ; v. 14.