Families and Health: Cross-Cultural Perspectives

This broad-ranging book highlights the enormous importance of the family in enhancing individuals' health and in safeguarding mental health. These empirical studies look at groups as diverse as elderly Samoans living in Hawaii, Nigerian families living in Africa, and children of all races and ethnic groups living in Florida foster care. Families and Health discusses the role healthy families play in various health and mental health issues, including preventing drug use, successful treatment for substance abuse, caregiving of the frail elderly, and helping families deal with schizophrenia.