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book coverFamilies in the Urban Environment:  Understanding resilience

Format and Length:      Paperback, 444 pages
ISBN: 978-1-5165-2515-7 ©2019

The book is divided into five parts: Theories of Resilience, Family in the United States, Marriage and Partnership, Family and Work Life, and Urban Factors. Specific topics explored throughout the text include social capital and health; resilience to discrimination stress across ethnic identity stages of development; familial dynamics in immigrant families; and resilience as it relates to the survivors of partner and martial violence. The books also explores familial budgets; the feminist reorganization of family; child well-being in middle-class environments; educating the homeless and other highly mobile students; protective factors for low-income youth; and more.

Available from Cognella Academic Publishing