Marriages and Families in the 21st Century: A Bioecological Approach

Marriages and Families in the 21st Century provides an in–depth exploration of a traditional field of study using a new and engaging approach. The text covers all the important issues – including parenting, divorce, aging families, balancing work and family, family violence, and gender issues – using a bioecological framework that takes into account our status as both biological and social beings.
An accessible writing style coupled with numerous student–friendly pedagogical features help readers come to a multilayered understanding of “what makes families tick,” while also challenging them to reevaluate their own assumptions and experiences.
Key features:
• Uses a bioecological model that takes into account our status as both biological and social beings
• Employs a strengths–based approach that focuses on family processes rather than structure in evaluating families’ optimal health and happiness
• Incorporates discussion of neuroscience, medicine, and biopsychological research throughout
• Explores a wide diversity of family relationships, integrating issues of ethnicity, culture, sexual orientation, and gender
• Focus on my Family boxes profile real families who wrote essays in their own words about their diverse experiences
• How Would You Measure That? sections encourage students to think critically about and analyze research design and conclusions
• Helps students analyze their own families’ strengths and attempt to build on those through psychometrically sound self–assessments and Building Your Strengths exercises
• Engaging and accessible writing style incorporates contemporary, real–world examples with important theory and research
& bull; Instructor’s manual, test bank, PowerPoint lecture slides, and useful web links, as well as student self–test questions, available at www.wiley.com/go/howe

Spis treści:
Preface xv
Acknowledgments xvii
Walk Through Tour xviii
1 The Changing American Family 1
2 How We Study the Family: Theories and Research Methods 31
3 Sex and Gender 67
4 Sexualities 103
5 Dating and Mate Selection 141
6 Love 171
7 Marriages and Committed Partnerships 201
8 Living Single 243
9 Reproduction and Parenting 275
10 The Economy of Working Families: Balancing Mental, Physical, and Financial Health in the Twenty–First Century 323
11 Families in Crisis: Violence, Abuse, and Neglect 357
12 Divorce and Remarriage 403
13 Growing Older in Families 439
14 The Evolution of Families in the Twenty–First Century 471
Glossary of Key Terms G–1
References R–1
Index I–1

Nota biograficzna:
Tasha R. Howe is a Fulbright Scholar and Professor of Psychology at Humboldt State University, where she specializes in family violence, developmental psychopathology, and violence prevention. She is also a nationally certified trainer for the American Psychological Association’s violence prevention parenting curriculum Parents Raising Safe Kids. She has published numerous scholarly articles in the fields of child maltreatment, program evaluation, and the scholarship of teaching. In 2009, she was recognized for effectively infusing diversity into her teaching by the Society for the Teaching of Psychology, Division 2 of the American Psychological Association.

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Marriages and Families in the 21st Century provides an in–depth exploration of a traditional field of study using a new and engaging approach. The text covers all the important issues – including parentin g, divorce, aging families, balancing work and family, family violence, and gender issues – using a bioecological framework that takes into account our status as both biological and social beings.
An accessible writing style coupled with numerous student–friendly pedagogical features help readers come to a multilayered understanding of “what makes families tick,” while also challenging them to reevaluate their own assumptions and experiences.
Key features:
• Uses a bioecological model that takes into account our status as both biological and social beings
• Employs a strengths–based approach that focuses on family processes rather than structure in evaluating families’ optimal health and happiness
• Incorporates discussion of neuroscience, medicine, and biopsychological research throughout
• Explores a wide diversity of family relationships, integrating issues of ethnicity, culture, sexual orientation, and gender
• Focus on my Family boxes profile real families who wrote essays in their own words about their diverse experiences
• How Would You Measure That? sections encourage students to think critically about and analyze research design and conclusions
• Helps students analyze their own families’ strengths and attempt to build on those through psychometrically sound self–assessments and Building Your Strengths exercises
• Engaging and accessible writing style incorporates contemporary, real–world examples with important theory and research
• Instructor’s manual, test bank, PowerPoint lecture slides, and useful web links, as well as student self–test questions, available at www.wiley.com/go/howe