Marriage, Divorce, and Children's Adjustment / Edition 2

by Robert E. Emery

Overview

This completely updated second edition presents an integrated, multidisciplinary account of children's experiences of divorce from historical, cultural and demographic perspectives. The author highlights children's resilience, but is sensitive to children's pain throughout the divorce process and afterwards. In addition he reviews the psychological, social, economic and legal consequences of divorce, and examines how children's risk is predicted by parental conflict, relationships with both parents, financial strain, custody disputes, and other factors. The author uses his family systems model to integrate research findings into a theoretical whole and to evaluate psychological interventions with divorcing and divorced families.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761902522
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	02/10/1999
Series:	Developmental Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry , #14
Edition description:	Second Edition
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.41(d)

About the Author

Robert E. Emery, Ph.D., is professor of psychology and director of the Center for Children,
Families, and the Law at the University of Virginia. In addition to his research, teaching, and administrative responsibilities, Emery maintains a practice as a clinical psychologist and divorce mediator.

Table of Contents

Overview
Some Cultural, Historical and Demographic Perspectives
Methodological and Conceptual Issues
Children's Adjustment in Divorced and Married Families
Family Processes and Children's Divorce Adjustment
Therapeutic Intervention
Approaches and Research
Legal Intervention
Laws, Policies and New Directions

Editorial Reviews

New edition of a work that reviews the psychological, social, economic, and legal consequences of divorce, and examines how children's risk or resilience is predicted by interparental conflict, relationships with both parents, financial strain, legal/physical custody, and other factors. Emery (psychology, U. of Virginia) also discusses psychological interventions and divorce law and policy, including future trends in legal reform. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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