Family Studies Arena

Parenting

An Ecological Perspective

Published June 2005

Parenting: An Ecological Perspective was originally created in 1993 to answer questions such as: Why do parents differ markedly in the ways in which they care for their children? What factors contribute to individual differences in parenting behavior? The framework used for addressing these…
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Recess

Its Role in Education and Development

• By Anthony D. Pellegrini.

Published June 2005

Writing a book about recess could be a very questionable endeavor for a serious academic psychologist. At first blush it seems to be a pretty trivial topic. It's the time during the school day where there's a break from what's typically considered the most serious work of the day--reading, writing,…
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Work, Family, Health, and Well-Being

• Edited by Suzanne M. Bianchi, Lynne M. Casper and Rosalind Berkow King.

Published June 2005

Work, Family, Health, and Well-Being grew out of a conference held in Washington, D.C. in June 2003 on "Workforce/Workplace Mismatch: Work, Family, Health, and Well-Being" sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The text considers multiple dimensions of health and well-being for…
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The New Population Problem

Why Families in Developed Countries Are Shrinking and What It Means

• Edited by Alan Booth, and Ann C. Crouter.

Published April 2005

This book is based on the presentations and discussions from a national symposium on "Creating the Next Generation: Social, Economic, and Psychological Processes Underlying Fertility in Developed Countries," held at the Pennsylvania State University in 2003. The papers address some of the…
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The Family Context of Parenting in Children's Adaptation to Elementary School

• Edited by Philip A. Cowan, Carolyn Pape Cowan, Jennifer C. Ablow, Vanessa Kahn Johnson and Jeffrey R. Measelle.

Published March 2005

The Family Context of Parenting in Children's Adaptation to Elementary School is a result of a longitudinal prevention study of 100 families begun the year before their first children entered kindergarten. Each family went through an assessment and then a subset was randomly chosen for group…
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The Handbook of Sexuality in Close Relationships

• Edited by John H. Harvey, Amy Wenzel and Susan Sprecher.

Published March 2005

Although sexuality is an integral part of close romantic relationships, research linking these two constructs has been less systematic than other areas pertaining to close relationships. To date, researchers in communication, sociology, family studies, psychology, and psychiatry, have made…
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Organized Activities As Contexts of Development

Extracurricular Activities, After School and Community Programs

• Edited by Joseph L. Mahoney, Reed W. Larson and Jacquelynne S. Eccles.

Published January 2005

School-aged children in the U.S. and other Western nations spend almost half of their waking hours in leisure activities. For some, out-of-school time is perceived as inconsequential or even counterproductive to the health and well-being of young persons. Recently, however, there has been a…
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From Work-Family Balance to Work-Family Interaction

Changing the Metaphor

• Edited by Diane F. Halpern, and Susan Elaine Murphy.

Published December 2004

There are many lessons to be learned about work-family interaction. It is clear that some people have learned how to combine work and family in ways that are mutually supporting--at least much of the time--and some employers have created work environments and policies that make positive…
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A Handbook of Divorce and Custody

Forensic, Developmental, and Clinical Perspectives

• Edited by Linda Gunsberg, and Paul Hymowitz.

Published December 2004

The Handbook of Divorce and Custody brings together mental health professionals and forensic specialists dedicated to working in the legal arena with families in crisis. Section I provides the individual perspectives of experienced clinicians, all of whom share a psychodynamic and…
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Why Love Matters

How Affection Shapes a Baby's Brain

• By Sue Gerhardt.

Published June 2004

Why Love Matters explains why love is essential to brain development in the early years of life, particularly to the development of our social and emotional brain systems, and presents the startling discoveries that provide the answers to how our emotional lives work. Sue Gerhardt considers how…
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