Diverse Families, Competent Families: Innovations in Research and Preventive Intervention Practice

By Janet F. Gillespie and Judy Primavera

Diverse Families, Competent Families provides human service professionals with a portrait of the real lives and practical challenges of our nation's families as they face a new millennium. It examines family adaptation and competence in a variety of contexts and situations such as day-to-day issues of coping and survival, as well as major milestones such as sending children off to school and becoming a caregiver for a family member. This unique book also spans multiple levels of families' existence, examining home, school, and the larger community to provide you with an understanding of the societal dynamics that can have an influence on families.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0789007975
• ISBN13: 9780789007971
• Release Date: February 2001
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.8" x 8.1"