The Wiley-Blackwell handbook of couples and family relationships / edited by Patricia Noller and Gery C. Karantzas.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

From form to function / Ruth Weston, Lixia Qu, and Alan Hayes -- Social trends and their impact on couple and family relationships / David de Vaus -- Changing American families in the 21st century / Suzanne M. Bianchi, Sara B. Raley, and Lynne M. Casper -- The role of the family across the lifespan / Toni C. Antonucci, Kristin M. Wong, and Sarah Trinh -- Parents and adolescents / Ross B. Wilkinson -- Family caregiving / Gery C. Karantzas -- Late-life transitions and interventions / Kathleen Piercy -- Conflict avoidance in families / John P. Caughlin, Jennifer L. Hardesty, and Ashley V. Middleton -- Conflict in family relationships / Patricia Noller -- Demand-withdraw communication in couples / Kathleen A. Eldridge and Brian Baucom -- Adult attachment and sexuality / Phillip R. Shaver and Mario Mikulincer -- Sexual dysfunction in intimate heterosexual relationships / Denisa Goldhammer and Marita P. McCabe -- Regulating incentives and threats in close relationships / Shelly L. Gable -- Attachment and caregiving / Melanie Canterberry and Omri Gillath -- Attachment insecurities and relationship self-regulation / Zoë J. Hazelwood -- The costs and benefits of trying to change intimate partners / Nickola C. Overall -- Through the eyes of love / Garth J.O. Fletcher and Patrick S.G. Kerr -- Betrayal and forgiveness in couple relationships / Julie Fitness -- Taking it to the streets (and information super highways) / W. Kim Halford and Samira Hayes -- Relationship education / Judith A. Feeney and Jennifer Fitzgerald -- A common factors perspective of relationship counseling / Ruth Ingrid Sturmey, Patricia Noller, and Gery C. Karantzas -- The efficacy of evidence-based couple therapy / Peter Howell -- Surviving trauma / Susan M. Johnson and Kathryn D. Rheem -- Children's adjustment after parental separation / Susie Sweeper -- Depression and self-harming in adolescence / Kerryn Hurd and Patricia Noller -- Attachment and depression across the transition to parenthood / Jeffry A. Simpson, W. Steven Rholes, and Sandra Shallcross -- Recent advances in research on social support in couples / Carolyn E. Cutrona -- Chronic illness and relationships / Gery C. Karantzas, Marita P. McCabe, and Sian F. Cole -- Promoting positive pathways for youth and young adults to healthy relationships and marriages / Alan J. Hawkins -- Improving child and family outcomes through a collaborative service model / Michael White and Gail Winkworth -- Are governments and marriage strange bedfellows? / W. Kim Halford and Elizabeth van Acker -- Common themes in couple and family relationship research and practice / Gery C. Karantzas and Patricia Noller.