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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Teens Talk About Adoption -- Chapter 2: Teens Talk About Divorce -- Chapter 3: Teens Talk About Illness in the Family -- Chapter 4: Teens Talk About Family Conflict -- Chapter 5: Teens Talk About Family Challenges -- The Teen Health & Wellness Personal Story Project -- Glossary -- For More Information -- For Further Reading -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover

Abstract  Research about families in stressful circumstances has a perspective that emphasizes health, positive functioning, and quality of life. The resiliency model of family stress, adjustment, and adaptation explains why some families have better life outcomes than others. In this model, the concepts problem solving, sense of coherence, coping, and adaptation play a prominent part. The main purpose of this literature review is to explore how these concepts are defined and applied in research on the family level rather than solely on the mothers' perceptions of family functioning. Another aim is to identify intervention methods based on problem solving, family sense of coherence (FSOC), positive coping, and positive adaptation in families. A review of research published between 1985 and 2004 concerning families of children in need of special support and family caregivers of relatives with chronic illness was implemented. Only 30 research articles met the inclusion criteria. The conclusion is that problem solving, FSOC, positive coping, and positive adaptation have their conceptual roots in different theories but have similar types of components in the constructs. They are often measured with instruments with single individuals as representatives for the family rather than at the family level. Important factors for an effective intervention seem to be individualization, supporting flexibility in coping strategies, and matching of strategies between partners within families.

Based on a variety of Chinese material about love and marriage this article focuses on women's role in family and business. It deals with the specific problems women encounter in finding a way to combine two tasks, being wife and mother as well as working member of society. In traditional Chinese thinking the female is associated with weakness, passiveness and acting in the interior. Because of this evaluation genuine Chinese gender and women studies start only in the second half of our century, being influenced by Western, especially American standards. Their most prominent advocate is Li Xiaojiang, a scientist fighting for the extension of women studies embracing history, economy, politics, philosophy and psychology. Today the achievements of communism, liberation from the restricted role that women had, are again endangered by the drift of the Chinese economy to free entreprise.

This thesis is a study of the family saga in British women's writing and explores how women writers between the two World Wars and within the context of modernity appropriated the genre. At the turn of the twentieth century social changes in British society led people to a reconsideration of what family and modernity meant. The re-imagining of family experience thus caused a flourishing of family sagas, particularly among women writers, and these sagas enjoyed a widespread readership and sales. Yet, the family saga has attracted little academic interest and criticism, and it has even been pejoratively labeled as 'middlebrow' writing, seen as conservative, domestic and feminine. Thanks to the initial male production of the family saga in the early twentieth century, a conservative tradition of the family saga was established: a family saga was a lengthy multi-generational family narrative, written in the realist mode, about the evolution of a family and its family dynamics. However, women writers have made shifts and appropriations of this literary form so as to make the personal world of the family political and open the genre to the discussion of a variety of topics. By tracing the differences in the family sagas written by Rose Macaulay, Vera Brittain and Virginia Woolf from the conventional family saga, this study argues that in the hands of women this feminine and middlebrow genre can be used for a serious consideration of feminism, the institution of the family and questions of history and modernity. I will also overturn the conventional assumption of the conservativeness of the family saga by arguing that the genre opens up space for progressive considerations of the family as well as space for modernist innovation. Thus, Rose Macaulay articulates her unique idea of the 'indefinite sameness' in history to dialogue with modern views of the past in Told By An Idiot; Vera Brittain expresses her feminism through her ideal of the 'companionate marriage' in Honourable Estate (1936); and Virginia Woolf captures the changes in British families through her modernist portrait of a modern family in The Years. ; published_or_final_version ; English ; Master ; Master of Philosophy