Family Stress and Communication: The Divorce Process
This item is included in the following series/curriculum: Family Communications
- Grade Level: Adult
- Subjects: Relationships / Family / Parenting, Sociology
- Produced By: Governors State University
- Year: 1997
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Running Time: 29m 19s
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This episode focuses on how family communication is affected by stresses that cannot be foreseen from either a developmental or a life course perspective. The Baines' model for determining how severe a stressor will be on a family is introduced and explained. Stressors resulting from divorce are discussed, with particular attention given to the changes in roles and responsibility in a post-divorce family. Featured interview: Professor Marcia Dixson (Indiana-Purdue University).