Handbook of Stressful Transitions Across the Lifespan

The modern life cycle is characterized by stressful transitions, when unexpected events and even many expected ones challenge people s functioning, health, and sense of self-worth. The international, multidisciplinary perspectives provided in the Handbook of Stressful Transitions Across the Lifespan cover these periods as they occur through youth, adulthood, and aging, bringing together theoretical and clinical findings, case studies, and literature reviews in one authoritative volume.