Concerns the economic crisis which has led to farm foreclosures, closings of rural businesses, and decreased livelihood of some rural communities. Presents an empowerment strategy as a possible approach to rural revitalization. Examines programs that have used an empowerment process and suggests additional efforts based on empowerment principles.…

This description of the steps in the treatment process begins with cognitive mastery of the normal spectrum of reaction and continues through the stages of expressing and resolving grief to the restructuring of the individual life situation. (Author)

Integrates family stress theory with empirical farm family research. Using the integration of theory and empirical findings, produces the Farm Family Assessment Instrument, a practical assessment instrument for use by farm crisis counselors who work with families who have lost or are losing their farms. (Author/NB)

Reviews current resource materials available to help educators, counselors, and others who work with rural families in an effort to support them in crisis, to facilitate their decision making and long-range planning, and to foster their problem-solving efforts. (Author)

Presented at the Second Annual National Conference of the Alliance of Family Therapy and Family Research, Florida State University, April, 1981. Examines job changes in terms of crisis theory and aspects of counseling dual-career families during the job-change crisis. (RC)