Synthesizes literature from a wide variety of disciplines to examine family interaction in the context of stressful situations. Designed as a textbook within Polity's Key Themes in Family Communication series. Looks at the topic of stress and coping across the individual, relational and family levels.

Detailed Table of Contents
List of Figures and Tables
Preface
Acknowledgements
PART I FAMILY STRESS THEORY AND RESEARCH
Chapter 1 Stress in the Mind and Body
Chapter 2 Stress and the Family
Chapter 3 Coping with Family Stress
Chapter 4 Communication within the Stress and Coping Processes
PART II FAMILY STRESS AND COPING IN CONTEXT
Chapter 5 Stress and Coping during a Wartime Deployment
Chapter 6 Stress and Coping during Catastrophic Illness
Chapter 7 Stress and Coping during the Transition to Parenthood
References
Index

Katheryn C. Maguire is Assistant Professor of Communication at Wayne State University.