PART 1: WHAT IS NEW IN FAMILY STRESS THEORY & RESEARCH? 1. Family Sense of Coherence and Family Adaptation - Antonovsky, A. & Sournai, T. (1988) 2. Evolving the Biobehavioral Family Model: The Fit of Attachment - Wood, B.L., Klebba, K.B., & Miller, B.D. (2000) 3. Stress, Competence, and Development: Continuties in the Study of Schizophrenic Adults, Children Vulnerabe to Psychopathology, and the Search for Stress-Resistant Children - Garmezy, N. (1987) 4. Toward a Definition of Family Resilience: Integrating Life-span and Family Perspectives - Hawley, D.R. & DeHaan, L. (1996) 5. Stress Levels, Family Help Patterns, and Religiosity in Middle- and Working-Class African American Single Mothers - McAdoo, H.P. (1995) 6. Spiritual Thoughts, Coping, and "Sense of Coherence" in Brain Tumour Patients and Their Spouses - Strang, S. & Strang, P. (2001) 7. Suffering and Spirituality: The Soul of Clinical Work With Families - Wright, L.M. (1997) 8. Levels of Meaning in Family Stress Theory - Patterson, J.M. & Garwick, A.W. (1994) PART 2: MODELS AND THEORIES 9. The Double ABCX Model of Family Stress and Adaptation: An Empirical Test by Analysis of Structural Equations With Latent Variables - LaVee, Y., McCubbin, H.I. & Patterson, J. (1985) 10. Family Stress: Integrating Theory & Measurement - Hobfoll, S.E. & Spielberger, C.D. (1992) 11. Primacy of Perception in Family Stress Theory and Measurement - Boss, P. (1992) 12. Stress, Change, and Families: Theoretical and Methodological Considerations - Kazak, A.E. (1992) 13. Process of Family Stress: A Response to Boss (1992) and Kazak (1992) - Hobfoll, S.E. & Spielberger, C.D. (1992) PART 3: DEFINITIONS: A GUIDE TO FAMILY STRESS THEORY 14. Generic Features of Families Under Stress - Hill, R. (1958) PART 4: BOUNDARY AMBIGUITY: A RISK FACTOR IN FAMILY STRESS MANAGEMENT 15. Normative Family Stress: Family Boundary Changes Across the Life-Span - Boss, P. (1980) 16. Family Boundary Ambiguity Predicts Alzheimer's Outcomes - Caron, W.; Boss, P. & Mortimer, J. (1999) PART 5: THE LINK BETWEEN AMBIGUITY & AMBIVALENCE IN FAMILY STRESS THEORY 17. Intergenerational Ambivalence: A New Approach to the Study of Parent-Child Relations in Later Life - Luescher, K. & Pillemer, K. (1998) 18. Adult Children of Fathers Missing in Action (MIA): An Examination of Emotional Distress, Grief, and Family Hardiness - Campbell, C.L. & Demi, A.S. (2000) PART 6: FAMILY VALUES AND BELIEF SYSTEMS: INFLUENCES ON FAMILY STRESS MANAGEMENT 19. Psychological Distress Among the Cree of James Bay - Kirmaayer, L., Boothroyd, L., Tanner, A., Adelson, N., Robinson, E. (2000) PART 7: THE FAMILY'S EXTERNAL CONTEXT 20. The Cultural Genogram: Key to Training Culturally Competent Family Therapists - Hardy, K.V. & Laszloffy, T.A. (1995) 21. Racial Discrimination as a Moderator of the Links Among Stress, Maternal Psychological Functioning, and Family Relationships - Murry, V.M., Brown, P.A., Brody, G.H., Cutrona, C.E. & Simons, R.L. (2001) 22. Couple Resilience to Economic Pressure - Conger, R.D., Rueter, M.A. & Elder, G.H., Jr. (1999) PART 8: SUMMARY AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS 23. The Family's Conception of Accountability and Competence: A New Approach to the Conceptualization and Assessment of Family Stress - Reiss, D., & Oliveri, M.E. (1991)