Provides an overview of the causes and treatment approaches for counseling families under stress, and focuses on several examples of extreme tension.

The first comprehensive text on stress and crisis management specifically tailored to courses focusing on the family Organized by stress model, this book helps readers understand the relationships among models, research, crisis prevention, and crisis management with individuals and families. Providing a balance of theory, research, hands-on applications, and intervention strategies, this innovative text presents a comprehensive overview of the field. Intended Audience Individual and Family Stress and Crises is ideal as a core text for upper division undergraduate and graduate students in courses such as Family Crisis, Family Stress & Coping, and Dysfunctions in Marriage & Family.

Families Under Financial Stress is a practical and timely guide that sheds light on the hidden impact of financial stress on families. Told through her personal story, Angela Sasseville shows how any stable family can become overwhelmed by life's events, which can impair them financially, but more importantly, emotionally. Bringing her knowledge as a therapist into this secretive problem, she has created a step-by-step guide to tackle stressors in new and healthier ways that will help families become emotionally, physically, and financially more balanced in sustainable ways.

The family is perhaps the most important single institution in everyone’s life. What happens in such an intense group? How does it develop over time? What happens when stress is placed upon it, whether generated from inside or outside the family? Originally published in 1975, when the late Tony Manocchio was one of the leading practitioners of family therapy in Britain and Scandinavia, this title, written with his colleague William Petitt, is a lively study of communication within families, revealing the universal problems common to all. The authors demonstrate and illuminate the application of communication principles by analysing healthy and ‘unhealthy’ family systems in six major plays – The Winslow Boy, Riders to the Sea, Hamlet, A Long Day’s Journey into Night, Death of a Salesman and A Delicate Balance. As part of this analysis they examine the difficulties family members have in allowing for differences, in sharing secrets and the ease with which a whole family can scapegoat a single member. They give a number of short case histories and examples from other plays which further illustrate the importance of communicating clearly. The book will still be of value to all those interested in the uses of family therapy, and also to students of literature for the human insight it offers into the texts discussed.

The number and intensity of childhood stresses have dramatically increased in the past decade, forcing children to grow up faster. This book reasserts the value of childhood, and provides the information needed to help children deal with life's problems.