Personal Relationships: Implications For Clinical And Community Psychology

Personal Relationships: Implications for Clinical and Community Psychology

What role do relationships play in the individual's health and thefunctioning of families and communities? Recent research indicatesthat relationships are important not only to individuals'well-being, but also to families, whilst their importance in thefunctioning of communities is only beginning to be recognized andinvestigated in a systematic way. Each chapter is focused on a cutting-edge application of thepersonal relationships perspective relevant to clinical andcommunity psychology. The book addresses such issues as the effectof close personal relationships on health outcomes, the impact ofgenetic testing, family relationships and major mental disorders,and social support dynamics in adjustment to disasters. Theoreticalviewpoints and research findings, as well as interventionstrategies, are presented on a variety of levels from individual tofamily to community. Personal Relationships: Implications for Clinical and CommunityPsychology is essential reading for researchers and scholars withinthe relationships field, students of clinical and communitypsychology, social work and psychological nursing.