Images of Australian Families: Approaches and Perceptions edited by Kathleen Funder

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Interior and binding are still very good.

This collection of papers originated as a symposium at the 24th Annual Conference of the Australian Psychological Society in Hobart in September 1989.

In the last decade, much greater social acceptance has been given to different models of marriage and family and more diverse lifestyles. In his foreword to this book, Don Edgar suggests that 'the study of images of families is worthwhile in its own right, as a window on a changing world', but more importantly as a contribution to predictions of 'later outcomes for individual life choices and of social trends that will affect the nature of society itself'. (Australia Institute of Family Studies)

The book consists of the following ten papers

• Family: an overview, by Kathleen Funder
• Images of the typical Australian family, by Patricia Noller and Victor J Callan
• When is a family? by Ailsa Burns
• Adolescent visions of family: reflections of a family therapist, by Lawrie Moloney
• Graphic representation of family structure, by Johanna Watson and Graeme Russell
• Children's constructions of their post-divorce families: a family sculpture approach by Kathleen Funder
• Life in stepfamilies: conceptions and misconceptions, by Ruth Webber
• Migrant family structure, by Peter McDonald
• Family processes: towards a theoretical framework, by Rosemary Dunlop
• Methods for studying Australian families by Victor Callan