Family category: 58238 books
Building Better Families
A Practical Guide to Raising Amazing Children
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
For more than a decade, Matthew Kelly has been traveling the world inspiring people to become the-best-version-of-themselves. During this time he has been amazed at how regularly he is asked: How do I encourage my children to embrace this message? How does your message apply to a family? Now, for...
by Jenn Leigh, Gary Mead
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014
If you want to be in better, happier control of your family, this book has simple, workable solutions! ...
Healing From Family Rifts : Ten Steps to Finding Peace After Being Cut Off From a Family Member
Ten Steps to Finding Peace After Being Cut Off From a Family Member
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2004
Ten steps to surviving a family rift, finding peace, and moving on
A family rift is one of the most traumatic experiences a person can face. It can have a profound effect on virtually every aspect of life, causing depression, relationship problems, and even physical illness. Healing From Family...
Work and Family
An International Research Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2005
The entrance of women into managerial positions in significant numbers brings work and family issues to center stage, shifting the spotlight from issues of entry and equality of access to the consideration of the work-family conflicts and the difficulties posed on female managers. Looking at new approaches...
by Anonymous
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
In many ways the family is the foundation of society. However, most of us don't live in picture-perfect families, and we didn't come from perfect families either. We all have something about our family life that could be changed for the better. It's true that we do have control over our own destinies,...
Family First
Your Step-by-Step Plan for Creating a Phenomenal Family
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
Do you feel that your family is not what it used to be, or what it has the potential to be? Do you worry that the parenting decisions you're making today may be scarring your child for life? Do you sometimes feel you are in a tug-of-war with the world over who will shape your child's values and beliefs?
With...
Family Problems and Family Violence
Reliable Assessment and the ICD-11
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
“This remarkable volume...is both conceptually robust and highly practical…The book promises to heighten awareness among clinicians around the world about the diagnostic and therapeutic importance of family relationships in human health and disease. It also will serve as a roadmap for the critically...
by Charles Schaefer, Lois J. Carey
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1994
Play therapy and family therapy both are well established therapeutic paradigms. Often, however, play therapists have minimal contact with the nuclear family of which their child patient is a member. Similarly, family therapists frequently view young children as disruptive and exclude them from family...
Dig Up Your Family Tree
Trace Your Ancestry And Find Your Family By Means Of Genealogy Research So You Can Learn Your Family History And Get To Know Your Family Background
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
In this modern time where independent living isolates many people from family, it is getting to a point where family members are growing apart from one another.
Parents, brothers and sisters and other closely-related kin have allowed themselves to go their own separate ways, without much...
Genealogy Basics In 30 Minutes
The quick guide to creating a family tree, building connections with relatives, and discovering the stories of your ancestors
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2016
Genealogists are like detectives. Working out puzzles is the name of their game! If you have ever wanted to research and document your family history the right way, then Genealogy Basics In 30 Minutes is for you! Authored by professional genealogist Shannon Combs-Bennett, this award-winning genealogy...
The Pathological Family
Postwar America and the Rise of Family Therapy
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
While iconic popular images celebrated family life during the 1950s and 1960s, American families were simultaneously regarded as potentially menacing sources of social disruption. The history of family therapy makes the complicated power of the family at midcentury vividly apparent. Clinicians developed...
Marriage and Family Therapy
A Practice-Oriented Approach
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2011
There are many different models of marriage and family therapy; the challenge for students and beginning practitioners is deciding which one best suits their individual purposes. This highly practical volume elucidates the defining characteristics of 14 contemporary models, including their history,...
Queer Families, Common Agendas
Gay People, Lesbians, and Family Values
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Vital information on family services, custody, and access rights for gay parents!
Queer Families, Common Agendas: Gay People, Lesbians, and Family Values examines the real life experience of those affected by current laws and policies regarding homosexual families. The book will help policy...
Toward More Family-Centered Family Sciences
Love, Sacrifice, and Transcendence
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2009
Much academic writing on families reflects the ideal of non-involvement and distanced subject matter. Toward More Family-Centered Family Sciences suggests that the family sciences, in their effort to be scientific, have perpetuated this distance between researcher and subject, to the detriment of...