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

SECTION 1 INTRODUCTION

1 Introduction setting the stage

SECTION 2 ESSENTIAL FORMS AND FUNCTIONS OF FAMILIES

2. Evolution and the family

3. Convergance and difference: marriage and family life form a crossultural perspective

4. The second demographic transtition: 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.Lesbian, Gay and Transgender families across the globe

SECTION 3 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

SECTION 4 FAMILY INTERVENTIONS

16. Couple and Family therapy Across the Globe: Cultural adaptations

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

SECTION 5: CONCLUSIONS

21. Families and culture: Research and Practice