Abstract
Working with families who are experiencing major life stressors can be particularly challenging – to the therapist! How many times have you developed a fabulous treatment plan after an intake session, only to never see the family again? How many times have you stayed late at the office to see an emergency client who did not show up to his or her session? How many times have you worked tirelessly with a family who did not seem committed themselves? All therapists have wanted to throw up their hands at one point and call it a day.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
References
Abidin, R. R., & Konold, T. R. (1999). Parenting alliance measure. Lutz, FL: Psychological Assessment Resources, Inc.
American Medical Association. (1992). Diagnostic and treatment guidelines on domestic violence. Archives of Family Medicine, 1, 39–47.
American Psychological Association (2001). Intimate partner abuse and relationship violence. Retrieved January 6, 2006, from http://www.apa.org/pi/parv.pdf
Appel, A. E., & Holden, G. W. (1998). The co-occurrence of spouse and physical child abuse: A review and appraisal. Journal of Family Psychology, 12(4), 578–599.
Buss, A.H., & Perry, M. (1992). The aggression questionnaire. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 63, 452–459.
Buss, A. H., & Warren, W. L. (1992). The aggression questionnaire. Lutz, FL: Western Psychological Services.
Carlson, B. (1984). Children’s observations of interparental violence. In A. Roberts (Ed.), Battered women and their families. New York: Springer, 147–167.
Center for Disease Control. National Center for Health Statistics. (2007). Marriage and divorce. Retrieved March 26, 2008, from http://www.cdc.gov.nchs.fastats/divorce.htm
Eyberg, S. M., McDiarmid Nelson, M., Duke, M., & Boggs, S. R. (2004). Manual for the dyadic parent-child interaction therapy coding system, Third Edition. Unpublished manuscript, University of Florida.
Fergusson, D. M., & Horwood, L. J. (1998). Exposure to interparental violence in childhood and psychological adjustment in young adulthood. Child Abuse & Neglect, 22(5), 339–357.
Hollingshead, A. (1975). Four factor index of social status. Unpublished manuscript. New Haven, CT: Yale University.
Horn, J., Wanberg, K. W., & Foster, M. (2003). Alcohol use inventory. Minneapolis, MN: Pearson Inc.
Lazowski, L. E., Miller, F. G., Boye, M. W., & Miller, G. A. (1998). Efficacy of the substance abuse subtle screening inventory-3 (SASSI-3) in identifying substance dependence disorders in clinical settings. Journal of Personality Assessment, 71(1), 114–128.
McNeil, C. B., & Herschell, A. D. (1998). Treating multi-problem, high stress families: Suggested strategies for practitioners. Family Relations, 47(3), 259–262.
Miller, F. G., Roberts, J., Brooks, M. K., & Lazowski, L. E. (1997). SASSI-3: Substance abuse subtle screening inventory. Lutz, FL: Psychological Assessment Resources, Inc.
National Institute on Drug Abuse. (2008). Drugs of abuse information. Retrieved April 2, 2008, from http://www.nida.nih.gov/drugpages.html
Porter, B., & O’Leary, R. E. (1980). Marital discord and childhood behavioral problems. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 8, 287–295.
Snyder, D. K. (1997). Marital satisfaction inventory, Revised. Lutz, FL: Western Psychological Services.
Straus, M. (1992). Children as witnesses to marital violence: A risk factor for lifelong problem among a nationally representative sample of American men and women. In D. Schwartz (Ed.), Children and violence: Report on the 23rd Ross Roundtable on critical approaches to common pediatric problems (pp. 98–104). Columbus, OH: Ross Laboratories.
Straus, M. A., Hamby, S. L., Boney-McCoy, S., Sugarman, D. B., Finkelhor, D., Moore, D. W., & Runyan, D. K. (1996). Revised conflict tactics scales. Lutz, FL: Western Psychological Services.
Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration. (2007). Results from the 2006 national survey on drug use and health: National findings. Retrieved April 2, 2008, from http://www.oas.samhsa.gov/nsduh/2k6nsduh/2k6Results.pdf
Tjaden, P., & Tiioennes, N. (2002). Full report of the prevalence, incidence, and consequences of violence against women: Findings from the national violence against women survey. Washington, DC: Department of Justice.
United States Census Bureau. (2007). Housing and household economic statistics division. Retrieved March 26, 2008, from http://www.census.gov.hhes/www/poverty/poverty06/pov06hi.html
United States Department of Health and Human Services. (2008). The 2008 HHS poverty guidelines. Federal Register, 73(15), 3971–3972.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2010 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
McNeil, C.B., Hembree-Kigin, T.L. (2010). Parents with Major Life Stressors. In: Parent-Child Interaction Therapy. Issues in Clinical Child Psychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-88639-8_18
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-88639-8_18
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Boston, MA
Print ISBN: 978-0-387-88638-1
Online ISBN: 978-0-387-88639-8
eBook Packages: Behavioral ScienceBehavioral Science and Psychology (R0)