Key Features
- Studies cultural influences in couple and family relationships
- Features a broadly interdisciplinary perspective
- Looks at how cultural differences affect how families are structured and function
- Explores why certain immigrant groups adapt better to new countries than others
- Discusses why certain countries are better at integrating immigrants than others
SECTION 1 INTRODUCTION
1 Introduction setting the stage
SECTION 2 ESSENTIAL FORMS AND FUNCTIONS OF FAMILIES
2. Evolution and the family
3. Convergance and difference: marriage and family life form a crossultural perspective
4. The second demographic transtition: cohabitation
5. Family Law across cultures
6. The intra-family balance of power: Cross cultural evidence
7. Couple Communication from a Cross-Cultural Perspective
8. Family violence: an International perspective
9.Lesbian, Gay and Transgender families across the globe
SECTION 3 INFLUENCES ON FAMILY FUNCTIONING
10.Work-family balance in cultural context
11. Families and Physical Health
12.The interface between family wellbeing and government policy in Australia
13. Migration patterns and families
14. The Anti-Immigrant sentiment and Its impact on immigrant families
15. Family Interventions and Armed Conflict
SECTION 4 FAMILY INTERVENTIONS
16. Couple and Family therapy Across the Globe: Cultural adaptations
17. Culture, couple relationships and couple education
18. Parenting interventions and culture
19. The Triple P parentiing program across cultures.
20. Culture and Family-Based Intervention for schizophrenia, bipolar, and other psychotic related spectrum disorders
SECTION 5: CONCLUSIONS
21. Families and culture: Research and Practice
9781285075426; 9781593850203; 9780415710909; 9780205968060
Researchers across a range of social and behavioural sciences (psychology; sociology; family studies); mental health professionals working with culturally-diverse families
