Description: About the Editors vii About the Authors viii Introduction xv Barabara R. Sarason and Steve Duck 1. Weaving Social Support and Relationships Together 1 Hoda Badr, Linda Acitelli, Steve Duck and Walter J. Carl 2. Close Personal Relationships and Health Outcomes: A Key to the Role of Social Support 15 Barbara R. Sarason, Irwin G. Sarason and Regan A. R. Gurung 3. Genetic Testing and Family Relationships: Mutual Impact and Future Implications 43 Andrea Farkas Patenaude 4. Family Relationships and Major Mental Disorder: Risk Factors and Preventive Strategies 61 Jill M. Hooley and Jordan B. Hiller 5. Interpersonal Processes, Attachment, and Development of Social Competencies in Individual and Group Psychotherapy 89 Brent. Mallinckrodt 6. Distinguishing the Theoretical Functions of Social Ties: Implications for Support Interventions 119 Kenneth Heller and Karen S. Rook 7. The Role of Personal Relationships in Transitions: Contributions of an Ecological Perspective 141 Edison J. Trickett and Rebecca M. Buchanan 8. The Role of Relationships in Developmental Trajectories of Homeless and Runaway Youth 159 Matthew Paradise, Ana Mari Cauce, Joshua Ginzler, Sarah Wert. Kevin Wruck and Matthew Brooker 9. Yours, Mine, Ours: The Relational Context of Communal Coping 181 Kristin D. Mickelson, Renee F, Lyons, Michael J. L. Sullivan and James C. Coyne 10. Social Support Dynamics in Adjustment to Disasters 201 Krzysztof Kaniasty and Fran H. Norris References 225 Author Index 289 Subject Index 299

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