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
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Handbook of Stressful Transitions Across the Lifespan
Edited by
Thomas W. Miller University of Kentucky College of Medicine Lexington, KY USA
Editor Thomas W. Miller University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington, KY USA [email protected]
ISBN 978-1-4419-0747-9 e-ISBN 978-1-4419-0748-6 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-0748-6 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London Library of Congress Control Number: 2009931332 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2010 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Life provides numerous transitions with some more stressful than others. Understanding such transitions and finding the knowledge necessary to navigate such transitions is the secret of a successful life. It is to our grandchildren Colin, Francis, Hillarie, Derek and Heidie and to their generation that this volume is dedicated.
Foreword
This volume provides a unique and valuable contribution to our understanding of the impact of stressful life events and mass trauma on the person, the culture and society in the course of the life span. It provides a comprehensive look at our psychological state of affairs at the beginning of the twenty-first century. There are several volumes that address some or most of these areas individually but this volume is unique in that it has brought together theoreticians, researchers and clinicians who address critical challenges in our lives. But we are now several months into the global financial crisis requiring a transition, not only for the western world but for the third world. How on earth do families in trauma zones – from Sri Lanka to Afghanistan, New Orleans to Gaza – cope with similar declining older relatives, with added traumas and zero medical resources attempt to survive? In news reports, politicians and financiers denying the inevitable and struggling for solutions that cannot be relevant to the new reality that they have yet to discover. This must be a time for consolidation, and valuing the past. What of our old world values, principles, dreams, beliefs? Will they still be valid and functional in the new age? But even more important – what past values, principles, assumptions that we took for granted in the last 50 years have been rendered obsolete by the finance crash, and the wider collapse
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