A Reader's Guide to Family Stress Literature

This guide introduces the reader to family stress literature, including a variety of topics that are related to family stress: (a) health and family stress, as well as resilience research; (b) physical health issues and family stress; (c) biosocial models and family stress; (d) neighborhood and other community contexts and family stress; and (e) international perspectives on family stress. Next, the guide describes some research trends in response to specific stressors: (a) work and family; (b) family violence; (c) economic crisis, including the Great Depression and the Rural Stress Crisis; (d) natural and human-made disasters, with a special examination of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder; (e) war; (f) military families' stressors; and (g) terrorism. Recommendations of materials for teaching about family stress in a variety of settings are included. The guide ends with other relevant information that may be of interest to the reader.