Cross-Cultural Family Research and Practice

Cross-Cultural Family Research and Practice broadens the theoretical and clinical perspectives on couple and family cross-cultural research with insights from a diverse set of disciplines, including psychology, sociology, communications, economics, and more. Examining topics such as family migration, acculturation and implications for clinical intervention, the book starts by providing an overarching conceptual framework, then moves into a comparison of countries and cultures, with an overview of cross-cultural studies of the family across nations from a range of specific disciplinary perspectives. Other sections focus on acculturation, migrating/migrated families and their descendants, and clinical practice with culturally diverse families.

• Studies cultural influences in couple and family relationships
• Features a broadly interdisciplinary perspective
• Looks at how cultural differences affect how families are structured and function
• Explores why certain immigrant groups adapt better to new countries than others
• Discusses why certain countries are better at integrating immigrants than others

Researchers across a range of social and behavioural sciences (psychology; sociology; family studies); mental health professionals working with culturally-diverse families

1. Introduction setting the stage

ESSENTIAL FORMS AND FUNCTIONS OF FAMILIES 
2. Evolution and the family
3. Demography of the family, marriage, divorce and parenting
4. The Second Demographic Transition: Cohabitation
5. Family law across cultures
6. The intra-family balance of power: Cross cultural evidence
7. Couple Communication from a Cross-Cultural Perspective
8. Family violence: an International perspective
9. GLBT people and family 

INFLUENCES ON FAMILY FUNCTIONING
10. Work-family balance in cultural context
11. Families and physical health
12. The interface between family wellbeing and government policy in Australia
13. Migration patterns and families
14. The Anti-Immigrant sentiment and Its impact on immigrant families
15. Family Interventions and Armed Conflict 

FAMILY INTERVENTIONS
16. Family therapy and culture
17. Culture, couple relationships and couple education
18. Parenting interventions and culture
19. The Triple P parentiing program across cultures
20. Culture and Family-Based Intervention for schizophrenia, bipolar, and other psychotic related spectrum disorders

CONCLUSION
21. Families and culture: Research and Practice