Category: book chapter

October 10, 2024

Animal-Assisted Interventions for Military Families: A Synthesis of the Current Evidence (Chapter 27, Handbook on Animal-Assisted Therapy)

Leanne Nieforth

Military families, including service members and their immediate family members, face unique stressors. As a consequence, these families are often at a higher risk for a variety of psychosocial challenges.

May 18, 2024

Book Chapter: Linking Infidelity and Health: An Integrated Stress Perspective

Rosie Shrout

The second edition of Infidelity, A Practitioner's Guide to Working with Couples in Crisis, which is part of Family Systems Counseling: Innovations Then and Now Series was recently published.

January 12, 2024

A Research Agenda for Tourism and Wellbeing, Chapter 4 – Healthy hotels: contribution of employee wellness programs

Xinran Lehto

Society is moving from technology-driven orientation to a wellbeing orientation for consumers and employees.

July 21, 2023

Globalization, Diet and Child Health in Three Latin American Indigenous Populations

Amanda Veile

This chapter provides an introduction to the nutrition transition and its effects on diet, growth, and health of very rural Latin American indigenous infants and children. Case studies are drawn from fieldwork in communities of Tsimane forager-farmers in the Bolivian...

January 31, 2023

Incorporating Diaspora into the Developmental Science of Immigrant Communities

Children, youth, and families who are displaced from or voluntarily leave their homelands, such as refugees, migrant workers, third culture children and adults, international students and scholars, and transnational adoptees, are largely overlooked in developmental science.

November 6, 2022

Sourcebook of Family Theories and Methodologies: Relational (in) Justice in Context

Limited focus on binary notions of gender and nuclear family forms has restricted our understanding of how family members often revise and reconstruct relationships to challenge traditional reward and dependency structure in relationships.

November 27, 2021

Parental Deployment and Military Children: A Century of Research

In this chapter, we place current research about parental deployments and military children into historical context. Policies regarding military families have evolved from ignoring or excluding families to a more systematic and intentional configuration of formal supports. Our review of...