Incorporating Social Ecology

social ecology theory Deatrick and Knafl are to be commended for supporting refinement of the Family Management Style Framework through their own review of the lit-erature and putting forward the manuscripts in this special issue. Through this special issue, Deatrick and Knafl encourage application of the Family Management Style Framework to new populations and situations, identify-ing areas for future study. The research represented within these manuscripts in this succeeds in testing the Family Management Style Framework, under-scoring the Framework’s adaptability across the lifespan and generalizability to new chronic health conditions (involving physical and cognitive areas of function) and situations in the course of treatment. Knafl, Deatrick, and Havill (2012), in their review of 64 studies using the Family Management Style Framework, summarize findings that support the Framework while pointing to the emerging contextualization of th