Family Life Now
Pearson (Verlag)
978-0-205-52334-4 (ISBN)
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This text combines the personal touch and scholarly expertise of an outstanding teacher to explore the ways that family members and intimate partners interact, and how families adapt to stresses, changes and everyday challenges. We are all a product of our families of origin. How that influences who we are and who we become is a central theme woven throughout Family Life Now.
This book follows the Family Life Education framework to examine marriages, families, and intimate relationships. Throughout the text, theories from the fields of sociology, family studies, psychology, lifespan human development, and other social sciences are integrated so that they can be applied to real life situations. The text also presents enough biological science to explain some of the physical realities of who we are and why we behave as we do.
Kelly Shea Welch teaches in the School of Family Studies and Human Services at Kansas State University. A native of Kansas, she received her Ph.D. in Family Studies at Kansas State University after working for many years as a doula, a professional birth attendant who provides emotional, physical, and informational support to the childbearing woman and her partner. Still today her research interests marry women’s health issues with family studies. Over the past 10 years, she has taught the large, introductory human growth and development course which enrolls a little more than 1,000 students per semester. The author of the interactive learning CD Roms, Development: Journey of a Lifetime, and Development: Journey through Childhood and Adolescence, she recognizes and emphasizes the value of active and learner-centered pedagogy that allows students to organize, integrate, and generate knowledge. In addition to teaching the human growth and development course, she also teaches the Family Relationships class that enrolls approximately 300 students each semester. She is a recipient of numerous teaching awards, including the Presidential Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching, and nominations for the United States Professor of the Year and the United States Distance Educator of the Year. These teaching awards and nominations recognize her distinct, innovative, and energetic teaching style—students consistently indicate that this unique teaching style puts them “on the edge” of their seats and holds their attention.
Brief Table of Contents
1) Family Life Now: A Conversation
2) Family Contexts: The Many Areas of Family Life
3) Understanding the Family through Research and Theory
4) Family Communication: Meanings, Methods, and Messages
5) Gender in Contemporary Society
6) The Experiences of Relational Intimacy
7) Love and Loving
8) The Path to Commitment: Attraction, Dating, and Partnering
9) Coupling: From Singlehood to Marriage
10) Sex and Sexuality
11) The Choice and Challenge of Childbearing
12) Parenting: Choices, Challenges, and Changes
13) Family Change: Stress, Crisis, and Transition
14) Uncoupling: Conflict, Relationship Deterioration, and Divorce
15) Rebuilding: Family Life Following Divorce
16) Family Life and Aging
Full Table of Contents
CHAPTER 1: Family Life Now
STUDYING MARITAL AND FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS
UNDERSTANDING TODAY’S FAMILIES
UNDERSTANDING MARRIAGE
FAMILY INTERACTIONS AND YOU
FAMILY LIFE EDUCATION
SUMMARY
CHAPTER 2: Family Contexts: The Many Facets of Family Life
FAMILY CONTEXTS: AN INTRODUCTION
THE ECONOMIC CONTEXT
THE RELIGIOUS CONTEXT
THE GOVERNMENT CONTEXT: FAMILY POLICY AND FAMILY LIFE
FAMILY LIFE EDUCATION
SUMMARY
CHAPTER 3: Understanding Families through Research and Theory
UNDERSTANDING FAMILIES THROUGH RESEARCH
UNDERSTANDING FAMILIES THROUGH THEORY
FAMILY LIFE EDUCATION
SUMMARY
CHAPTER 4: Family Communication and Conflict
THE COMMUNICATION PROCESS
TYPES OF COMMUNICATION
CONFLICT IN RELATIONSHIPS
CORNERSTONES OF COMMUNICATION
FAMILY LIFE EDUCATION
SUMMARY
CHAPTER 5: Gender in Today’s Society
THE BIOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF GENDER
THE SOCIAL AND CULTURAL INFLUENCES OF GENDER
GENDER AND CONTEMPORARY ISSUES
FAMILY LIFE EDUCATION
SUMMARY
CHAPTER 6: Intimacy: Developing and Experiencing Affectionate Bonds
INTIMACY: DO WE HAVE A NEED TO RELATE TO OTHERS?
DEVELOPING INTIMACY
OBSTACLES TO INTIMACY
FAMILY LIFE EDUCATION
SUMMARY
CHAPTER 7: Love and Loving
LOVE IS A CULTURAL AND HISTORICAL EXPERIENCE
WHAT IS LOVE?
DEVELOPING LOVE
THEORIES OF LOVE AND LOVING
FAMILY LIFE EDUCATION
SUMMARY
Chapter 8: The Path to Commitment: Attraction, Dating, and Partnering
“FRISKY BUSINESS”: INTERPERSONAL ATTRACTION THEORIES THE PATH TO COMMITMENT
NONMARITAL COHABITATION
FAMILY LIFE EDUCATION
SUMMARY
Chapter 9: Coupling: From Singlehood to Marriage
BEING SINGLE
THE ACT OF MARRIAGE
THE TRANSITION TO MARRIAGE: WHY IT’S SO TOUGH
MARITAL SATISFACTION
FAMILY LIFE EDUCATION
SUMMARY
Chapter 10: You, Sex, and Sexuality
CULTURAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO SEXUALITY
BIOLOGICAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO SEXUALITY
UNDERSTANDING SEXUAL RESPONSES IN WOMEN AND MEN
SEX IN MARRIAGE
NONMARITAL SEX
OTHER KINDS OF SEX
FAMILY LIFE EDUCATION
SUMMARY
Chapter 11: The Choices and Challenges of Childbearing
CHILDBEARING IN AMERICA: BECOMING PARENTS
HOW WE REPRODUCE
THE CHANGES THROUGH PREGNANCY
LABOR AND BIRTH
UNEXPECTED OUTCOMES
PROTECTING YOUR REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH: UNDERSTANDING SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED INFECTIONS
FAMILY LIFE EDUCATION
SUMMARY
Chapter 12: Parenting: Choices, Challenges, and Changes
PARENTHOOD: A FAMILY IS BORN
THE CHOICES
THE CHALLENGES
THE CHANGES
FAMILY LIFE EDUCATION
SUMMARY
Chapter 13: Uncoupling: Relationship Deterioration and Divorce
UNCOUPLING
EMOTIONALLY ENDING THE MARRIAGE
LEGALLY ENDING THE MARRIAGE: THE FORMAL DIVORCE
FAMILY LIFE EDUCATION
SUMMARY
Chapter 14: Rebuilding: Family Life Following Divorce
THE AFTERMATH OF DIVORCE: TRANSITIONS
CHALLENGES FOR SINGLE PARENTS
TRANSITIONS TO REPARTNERING
FAMILY LIFE EDUCATION
SUMMARY
Chapter 15: Family Change: Stress, Crisis, and Transition
FAMILY CHANGE
FAMILY CRISIS
FAMILY VIOLENCE
FAMILY COPING AND RESILIENCE
FAMILY LIFE EDUCATION
SUMMARY
Chapter 16: Family Life and Aging
AGING AND THE AGED
FAMILY TIES THROUGH AGING
FAMILY CHANGES TOWARD THE END OF LIFE
DYING and DEATH EXPERIENCES
FAMILY LIFE EDUCATION
SUMMARY
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 12.3.2009 |
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| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 216 x 276 mm |
| Gewicht | 2191 g |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie |
| ISBN-10 | 0-205-52334-X / 020552334X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-205-52334-4 / 9780205523344 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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