Book Description:
This new book reviews the latest research from around the world on the roles, bonds and impact of family life. The authors of this book discuss the role of family in the diagnosis, prevention and intervention in mental disorders; cohabitating males in inner-city households; the social and economic problems of multiple partner fertility (MPF); the complex nature of the work-family model; the ethnographic observation of everyday life in Italy; the effects of childhood rearing on substance and behavior addiction among Japanese university students and the connection between adolescent students' families and their schooling experiences.

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Table of Contents:
Preface

Social Anxiety Disorder and the Family: From Risk Factor Research towards a Family-Based Approach in Prevention and Intervention?
(Susanne Knappe, Julia Martini, Institute of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Technische, Universitaet Dresden, Dresden, Germany)pp.1-32

The Invisible Partners: Cohabiting Males as ‘Caring Daddies’ in Inner-City ‘Mother-Only’ Households
(Eloise Dunlap, Andrew Golub, Ellen Benoit, National Development and Research Institutes, Inc., New York, New York)pp.33-54

Do All of Your Children Have the Same Father? Multiple-Partner Fertility and the Inner-City Poor
(Andrew Golub, Eloise Dunlap, National Development and Research Institutes, Inc., New York, New York)pp.55-74

Where has all the Parsimony Gone? Revisiting the Original Work-Family Conflict Model via Meta-Analytic Structural Equation Modeling
(Ena Sawhney, Jesse S. Michel, Jacqueline K. Mitchelson, Florida International University, Department of Psychology, Miami, Florida, and others)pp.75-98

The Ethnographic Observation of Everyday Life in Italy: Collaborative Interactions among Working Couples
(Francesco Arcidiacono, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland)pp.99-118

The Effects of Perceived Childhood Rearing on Substance and Behaviour Addiction among Japanese University Students: Mediation through Personality Traits
(Junko Watanabe, Xi Lu, Qingbo Liu, Masayo Uji, Masahiro Shono, Zi Chen, Toshinori Kitamura, Department of Clinical Behavioural Sciences, Psychological Medicine, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan, and others)pp.119-138

Does Religion Count? Religiousness and Family Life among Hungarian High School Students
(Eszter Kovács, Bettina F. Piko, University of Szeged, Hungary, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary)pp.139-156

Using the Coping Concept to Investigate Adolescent Consumers’ Reactions to Parents’ Refusal
(Sarah Benmoyal-Bouzaglo, Denis Guiot, Université de Paris-Dauphine, Paris, France, and others)pp.157-

Short Communication:
The Time after the Death of a Husband with Alzheimer’s Disease
(Sabine Bährer-Kohler, Doctorate in Social Science, Diploma in Education, Diploma in Social Work and Social Education, Basel, Switzerland)pp.171-174

Short Communication:
Several Meanings of Family Affection
(Mitsuru Wakunami, Family Clinic Kitanakagusuku, Agape Medical Corporation, Nakagamigun, Okinawa, Japan)pp.175-178

Index pp.179-188