Family Stress Management: A Contextual Approach

Why do some families survive stressful situations while others fall apart? Can a family’s beliefs and values be used as a predictor of vulnerability to stress? And most importantly, can family stress be prevented?

Providing a framework for students and professionals to help to learn how to help families manage their stress, author Pauline Boss continues to explore both the larger context surrounding families and stress emphasising the need for a more general contextual model of family stress which may be applicable to a wider diversity of people and stresses.