Ebook: Handbook of Social Support and the Family

While insights sometimes are slow in coming, they often seem obvious when they finally arrive. This handbook is an outcome of the insight that the topics of social support and the family are very closely linked. Obvious as this might seem, the fact remains that the literatures dealing with social support and the family have been deceptively separate and distinct. For example, work on social support began in the 1970s with the accumulation of evidence that social ties and social integration play important roles in health and personal adjustment. Even though family members are often the key social supporters of individuals, relatively little re­ search of social support was targeted on family interactions as a path to specifying supporter processes. It is now recognized that one of the most important features of the family is its role in providing the individual with a source of support and acceptance. Fortunately, in recen t years, the distinctness and separateness of the fields of social support and the family have blurred. This handbook provides the first collation and integration of social support and family research. This integration calls for specifying processes (such as the cognitions associated with poor support availability and unrewarding faIllily constellations) and factors (such as cultural differences in family life and support provision) that are pertinent to integration.

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Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Conceptualizing and Assessing Social Support in the Context of the Family....Pages 3-23
Information Processing Approaches to the Study of Relationship and Social Support Schemata....Pages 25-42
Social Support in Marriage....Pages 43-65
Social Support in Its Cultural Context....Pages 67-79
Front Matter....Pages 81-81
The Neglected Links between Marital Support and Marital Satisfaction....Pages 83-103
The Socialization of Emotional Support Skills in Childhood....Pages 105-140
Attachment, Social Competency, and the Capacity to Use Social Support....Pages 141-172
Social Support as a Determinant of Marital Quality....Pages 173-194
Parental Characteristics as Influences on Adjustment in Adulthood....Pages 195-218
Compensatory Processes in the Social Networks of Older Adults....Pages 219-248
What Is Supportive about Social Support?....Pages 249-267
The Impact of Marital and Social Network Support on Quality of Parenting....Pages 269-287
The Mutual Influence of Family Support and Youth Adaptation....Pages 289-310
Front Matter....Pages 311-311
The Relation of Family Support to Adolescents’ Psychological Distress and Behavior Problems....Pages 313-343
Social Support in Postdivorce Families....Pages 345-373
Social Support and Pregnancy....Pages 375-412
Social Support and Social Coping in Couples....Pages 413-433
Social Support and Preventive and Therapeutic Interventions....Pages 435-465
Family Stress and Social Support among Caregivers to Persons with Alzheimer’s Disease....Pages 467-494
The Role of Attachment in Perceived Support and the Stress and Coping Process....Pages 495-520
Back Matter....Pages 551-573
The Role of Family and Peer Relationships in Adolescent Substance Use....Pages 521-549

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Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Conceptualizing and Assessing Social Support in the Context of the Family....Pages 3-23
Information Processing Approaches to the Study of Relationship and Social Support Schemata....Pages 25-42
Social Support in Marriage....Pages 43-65
Social Support in Its Cultural Context....Pages 67-79
Front Matter....Pages 81-81
The Neglected Links between Marital Support and Marital Satisfaction....Pages 83-103
The Socialization of Emotional Support Skills in Childhood....Pages 105-140
Attachment, Social Competency, and the Capacity to Use Social Support....Pages 141-172
Social Support as a Determinant of Marital Quality....Pages 173-194
Parental Characteristics as Influences on Adjustment in Adulthood....Pages 195-218
Compensatory Processes in the Social Networks of Older Adults....Pages 219-248
What Is Supportive about Social Support?....Pages 249-267
The Impact of Marital and Social Network Support on Quality of Parenting....Pages 269-287
The Mutual Influence of Family Support and Youth Adaptation....Pages 289-310
Front Matter....Pages 311-311
The Relation of Family Support to Adolescents’ Psychological Distress and Behavior Problems....Pages 313-343
Social Support in Postdivorce Families....Pages 345-373
Social Support and Pregnancy....Pages 375-412
Social Support and Social Coping in Couples....Pages 413-433
Social Support and Preventive and Therapeutic Interventions....Pages 435-465
Family Stress and Social Support among Caregivers to Persons with Alzheimer’s Disease....Pages 467-494
The Role of Attachment in Perceived Support and the Stress and Coping Process....Pages 495-520
Back Matter....Pages 551-573
The Role of Family and Peer Relationships in Adolescent Substance Use....Pages 521-549
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