About the Book
This Handbook presents up-to-date scholarship on the causes and predictors, processes, and consequences of divorce and relationship dissolution. Featuring contributions from multiple disciplines, this Handbook reviews relationship termination, including variations depending on legal status, race/ethnicity, and sexual orientation. The Handbook focuses on the often-neglected processes involved as the relationship unfolds, such as infidelity, hurt, and remarriage. It also covers the legal and policy aspects, the demographics, and the historical aspects of divorce. Intended for researchers, practitioners, counselors, clinicians, and advanced students in psychology, sociology, family studies, communication, and nursing, the book serves as a text in courses on divorce, marriage and the family, and close relationships.
Table of Contents:
Part 1 Introduction; Chapter 1 Divorce and Relationship Dissolution in the 21st Century, Mark A. Fine, John H. Harvey; Part 2 Demographic and Historical Aspects of Divorce and Relationship Dissolution; Chapter 2 Divorce and Relationship Dissolution Research: Then and Now, Gay C. Kitson; Chapter 3 Historical Trends in Divorce in the United States, Paul R. Amato, Shelley Irving; Chapter 4 The Demographic Future of Divorce and Dissolution, Jay Teachman, Lucky Tedrow, Matthew Hall; Part 3 Causes, Underlying Processes, and Antecedents of Divorce and Relationship Dissolution; Chapter 5 What Predicts Divorce and Relationship Dissolution?, Amy E. Rodrigues, Julie H. Hall, Frank D. Fincham; Chapter 6 Perspectives on Premarital Postdissolution Relationships: Account-Making of Friendships Between Former Romantic Partners, Masahiro Masuda; Chapter 7 Hurtful Interactions and the Dissolution of Intimacy, Anita L. Vangelisti; Chapter 8 Relationship Dissolution Following Infidelity, Julie H. Hall, Frank D. Fincham; Chapter 9 What Goes Up May Come Down: Sex and Gendered Patterns in Relational Dissolution, Steve Duck, Julia T. Wood; Chapter 10 Social Construction of Accounts in the Process of Relationship Termination, John H. Harvey, Mark A. Fine; Chapter 11 are reprinted from When Loves Dies: The Process of Marital Disaffection (, pp. 32–88) © Copyright. Reprinted by permission of Guilford Press., Karen Kayser, Satya S. Rao; Chapter 12 Divorce and Dissolution of Romantic Relationships: Stage Models and Their Limitations, Stephanie S. Rollie, Steve Duck; Chapter 13 Coparenting Following Divorce and Relationship Dissolution, Kari Adamsons, Kay Pasley; Chapter 14 Mechanisms of Distress and Dissolution in Physically Aggressive Romantic Relationships, Erika Lawrence, Eunyoe Ro, Robin Barry, Mali Bunde; Part 4 Consequences of Divorce and Relationship Dissolution; Chapter 15 The Kids Are Alright (at Least, Most of Them): Links Between Divorce and Dissolution and Child Well-Being, Bonnie L. Barber, David H. Demo; Chapter 16 Consequences of Divorce for Parents, Sanford L. Braver, Jenessa R. Shapiro, Matthew R. Goodman; Chapter 17 Influence of Parental Divorce on Romantic Relationships in Young Adulthood: A Cognitive-Developmental Perspective, Denise S. Bartell; Chapter 18 Stress-Related Growth Following Divorce and Relationship Dissolution, Ty Tashiro, Patricia Frazier, Margit Berman; Chapter 19 Economic Aspects of Divorce and Relationship Dissolution, Liana C. Sayer; Part 5 Coping With Divorce and Relationship Dissolution; Chapter 20 Divorce as Prelude to Stepfamily Living and the Consequences of Redivorce, Lawrence Ganong, Marilyn Coleman, Jason Hans; Chapter 21 Communication Processes That Promote Risk and Resiliency in Postdivorce Families, Tamara D. Afifi, Kellie Hamrick; Chapter 22 No Breakup Occurs on an Island: Social Networks and Relationship Dissolution, Susan Sprecher, Maria Schmeeckle, Diane Felmlee, Xiaoling Shu; Part 6 Variations in Divorce and Relationship Dissolution Patterns and Processes; Chapter 23 Divorce in the Context of Being African American, Terri L. Orbuch, Edna Brown; Chapter 24 Same-Sex Relationships and Their Dissolution, Ramona Faith Oswald, Eric Clausell; Chapter 25 Divorce and Relationship Dissolution Among Latino Populations in the United States, Adriana J. Umaña-Taylor, Edna C. Alfaro; Part 7 Policy Issues Pertaining to Divorce and Relationship Dissolution; Chapter 26 The Law of Divorce and Relationship Dissolution, Margaret M. Mahoney; Chapter 27 In the Presence of Grief: The Role of Cognitive-Emotional Adaptation in Contemporary Divorce Mediation, David A. Sbarra, Robert E. Emery; Chapter 28 Educational Interventions for Separating and Divorcing Parents and Their Children, Karen R. Blaisure, Margie J. Geasler; Part 8 Commentaries; Chapter 29 Trying to Understand Close Relationships, Robert S. Weiss; Chapter 30 The Changing Reasons for Marriage and Divorce, Ellen Berscheid; Chapter 31 Proposals for Research on the Consequences of Divorce for Children, Alan Booth;
About the Author :
Mark A. Fine
