Our major purpose in developing this volume evolved as we at tempted to integrate and
adapt various approaches to the systematic study of families faced with normative and non�…

Abstract [The authors] reexamine the theoretical literature in search of a better way of
understanding stress and its management in families. They liberate their inquiry by setting�…

Two STREAMS OF research concerned about social stresses and the family have been
running parallel for some time. This conference should stimulate their early convergence. I�…

Hill's ABCX family crisis framework has continued to serve as the foundation for the research
and theory building efforts of the past decade of family stress investigations. Research�…

Family stress theories, as McCubbin, Dahl, Lester, Benson, and Robertson (1976) have
pointed out, have traditionally concentrated on variations in family vulnerability and family�…

How do families and couples cope with chronic illness, life-threatening health problems, or
the death of a child? How do families handle unemployment and prolonged financial�…

First Published in 1983. All families experience stress: the adjustment period when an infant
is born; the many problems engendered by adolescents; role, dual-career, and work�…

Some of the discrepancies between observations made of family behavior under stress and
the family stress theory literature to date result from the tendency to emphasize adaptation to�…

A number of prior publications using data from the National Survey of Black Americans
(1979–1980) raised the possibility that family members who provide social support during�…

First published in 1983. This is Volume 1 of two in a collection of on stress and the family.
The books view the family as both producing and reacting to stress and attempt to identify�…