Personal Relationships
Implications for Clinical and Community Psychology
Wiley Series on Social and Personal Relationships
November 2000
324 Seiten, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
What role do relationships play in the individual's health and the
functioning of families and communities? Recent research indicates
that relationships are important not only to individuals'
well-being, but also to families, whilst their importance in the
functioning of communities is only beginning to be recognized and
investigated in a systematic way.
Each chapter is focused on a cutting-edge application of the
personal relationships perspective relevant to clinical and
community psychology. The book addresses such issues as the effect
of close personal relationships on health outcomes, the impact of
genetic testing, family relationships and major mental disorders,
and social support dynamics in adjustment to disasters. Theoretical
viewpoints and research findings, as well as intervention
strategies, are presented on a variety of levels from individual to
family to community.
Personal Relationships: Implications for Clinical and Community
Psychology is essential reading for researchers and scholars within
the relationships field, students of clinical and community
psychology, social work and psychological nursing.
About the Authors viii
Introduction xv
Barabara R. Sarason and Steve Duck
1. Weaving Social Support and Relationships Together 1
Hoda Badr, Linda Acitelli, Steve Duck and Walter J. Carl
2. Close Personal Relationships and Health Outcomes: A Key to the Role of Social Support 15
Barbara R. Sarason, Irwin G. Sarason and Regan A. R. Gurung
3. Genetic Testing and Family Relationships: Mutual Impact and Future Implications 43
Andrea Farkas Patenaude
4. Family Relationships and Major Mental Disorder: Risk Factors and Preventive Strategies 61
Jill M. Hooley and Jordan B. Hiller
5. Interpersonal Processes, Attachment, and Development of Social Competencies in Individual and Group Psychotherapy 89
Brent. Mallinckrodt
6. Distinguishing the Theoretical Functions of Social Ties: Implications for Support Interventions 119
Kenneth Heller and Karen S. Rook
7. The Role of Personal Relationships in Transitions: Contributions of an Ecological Perspective 141
Edison J. Trickett and Rebecca M. Buchanan
8. The Role of Relationships in Developmental Trajectories of Homeless and Runaway Youth 159
Matthew Paradise, Ana Mari Cauce, Joshua Ginzler, Sarah Wert. Kevin Wruck and Matthew Brooker
9. Yours, Mine, Ours: The Relational Context of Communal Coping 181
Kristin D. Mickelson, Renee F, Lyons, Michael J. L. Sullivan and James C. Coyne
10. Social Support Dynamics in Adjustment to Disasters 201
Krzysztof Kaniasty and Fran H. Norris
References 225
Author Index 289
Subject Index 299
Professor at the University of Iowa and has been a keen promoter of
the field of personal relationships research since it was formed.
He co-founded the first International Conference on Personal
Relationships in 1982, and was founder and first editor of the
Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, first President of
the International Network on Personal Relationships, the
professional organisation for the research field, and editor of the
first edition of the Handbook of Personal Relationships. The Steve
Duck New Scholar award was endowed and named in his honour by a
group of independent scholars to recognize his promotion of the
work of younger professionals and his dedication to developing the
field.
BARBARA R. SARASON, Research Professor Emeritus of Psychology at
the University of Washington, has worked extensively in the
research areas of stress,coping, social support, and the role
personal relationships play in health and well-being. She has
published more than 100 articles and book chapters in these areas
as well as work on psychological strategies to promote prosocial
behaviour and the influence of cultural factors on family and
social relationships, especially among immigrants and minority
groups. She is co-editor of several books, inclduing four on social
support and one on cognitive interference and anxiety in social
situations and is currently an associate editor of the Journal of
Social and Personal Relationships.
