This Second Edition presents a synthesis and analysis of the vast literature that has emerged in recent years detailing families’ responses to various transitions and other stressful life events. This book is intended to serve as a basic or supplementary text for undergraduate and introductory graduate courses on family or social problems. Families & Change Second Edition will also be useful to professionals novices and those with considerable experience especially in social work education and public health which are increasingly being required to work with family problems.