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When a parent dies, most adults are seized by an unexpected crisis that can trigger a profound transformation. Using in-depth interviews and national surveys, Dr Umberson explains why the death of a parent has strong effects on adults and looks at protective factors that help some individuals experience better mental health following the death than they did when the parent was alive. This is the first book to rely on sound scientific method to document the significant adverse effects of parental death for adults in a national population. Exploring the social and psychological risk factors that make some people more vulnerable than others, readers will come to view the loss of a parent in a new way: as a turning point in adult development.

Title Death of a parent : transition to a new adult identity / Debra Umberson. [electronic resource]
Publisher Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
Creation Date 2003
Notes Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Content Cover
Half-title
Dedication
Title
COPYRIGHT
CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
1 ORDINARY LOSS, EXTRAORDINARY CHANGE
2 UNEXPECTED CRISIS
3 SYMBOLIC LOSS
4 TURNING POINT IN ADULTHOOD
5 INTIMATE RELATIONSHIPS
6 THE NEXT GENERATION
7 THE PARENT LEFT BEHIND
8 MY BROTHER'S KEEPER
9 RITE OF PASSAGE
APPENDIX DATA AND MEASURES
NOTES
INDEX
Extent 1 online resource (viii, 255 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Language English
National Library system number 997010709426805171
MARC RECORDS
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