About this Book

Part I. Family health -- Psychopathology and couple and family functioning -- Mood and anxiety disorders -- The importance of family-based treatments for bipolar spectrum disorders and psychotic disorders -- A family systems framework for adolescent antisocial behavior: The state of the science and suggestions for the future -- Pediatric chronic health conditions: Adaptation within the family context -- The family, chronic illness, and disability: An integrated practice model -- Family support and caregiving in middle and late life -- The influence of chronic family stressors on adult health -- The hand that rocks the cradle: The family and parenting context of children's sleep -- Families affected by HIV -- Nutritional health -- Physical activity and active lifestyles -- Part II. Intersection of family psychology with other systems -- Families and the health care system -- Families and schools -- Families and organized after-school activities for youth -- Supporting families of young children for the 21st century: Charting a new evidence-based direction -- Families and the juvenile justice system -- Families and the legal system: Approaches to parental divorce and separation -- Culturally competent systems of care for military families -- Transcending barriers to build bridges between family psychology and religious organizations -- Families and food system programs -- Families and community-based programs: Characteristics, engagement, and dissemination -- Media and the family -- Families and workplaces -- Part III. Family psychology and societal grand challenges -- Intimate partner violence and the family -- Culture and family functioning -- The complexities of immigration and families: Theoretical perspectives and current issues -- Economic strain and job loss -- Child maltreatment and the family -- Family-level risk and protective factors associated with youth bullying and peer victimization -- Incarcerated parents -- The experience of family homelessness -- Traumatic stress within the family -- Natural disasters -- Terrorism exposure and the family: Where we are, and where we go next -- Substance use and substance problems in families: How families impact and are impacted by substance use -- Part IV. Broad impact of family psychology -- In search of a global family psychology: Challenges and perspectives -- Public health and family psychology -- Public policy and family psychology -- Family advocacy in children's mental health: Past, present, and strategies for a successful future -- International family psychology -- Family forensic psychology -- Index.