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Family Functioning
Schwab, John J.; Gray-Ice, Helen; Prentice, Florence R.
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Description for Family Functioning
Hardback. The authors argue that the family is now at a turning point between vitality or debilitation. This text addresses the status and fate of the family, including issues of the suffering produced by divorce, pathologies due to inadequate parenting and the mental health functions of family life. Series: Critical Issues in Psychiatry. Num Pages: 303 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHBK; MMH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 26. Weight in Grams: 1340.
The family, that most fundamentalof human groups, is currently perceived to be changing in response to social, biological, cultural and technological developments in our postmodernsociety. While the observed changes in families have been considered by some sociologists to be evidence of adaptation and, therefore, normal, the authors of this volume, consider them maladaptive. Viewing society from the point of view of clinical psychiatry, they point to greatly increased numbers of children born to single mothers, soaring rates of divorce, a statistically confirmed increase in mental disorders, increase in reported incest, high rates of depression in younger people and escalation of ... Read more
The family, that most fundamentalof human groups, is currently perceived to be changing in response to social, biological, cultural and technological developments in our postmodernsociety. While the observed changes in families have been considered by some sociologists to be evidence of adaptation and, therefore, normal, the authors of this volume, consider them maladaptive. Viewing society from the point of view of clinical psychiatry, they point to greatly increased numbers of children born to single mothers, soaring rates of divorce, a statistically confirmed increase in mental disorders, increase in reported incest, high rates of depression in younger people and escalation of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Springer Science+Business Media United States
Number of pages
303
Condition
New
Series
Critical Issues in Psychiatry
Number of Pages
283
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780306463969
SKU
V9780306463969
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