Family category: 58238 books
Reclaim Your Family From Addiction
How Couples and Families Recover Love and Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2010
With histories, personal stories, and the latest research, this book helps readers chart their way out of addiction and back to the fullness of family by using principles that restore the "we" of lasting, loving relationships.
What happens to the "we" of a family when one member opts for the...
Social Work and Family Violence
Theories, Assessment, and Intervention
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2010
To competently serve families, social work students must understand the theories and issues surrounding family violence. This innovative textbook comprehensively discusses three types of family violence: child abuse and maltreatment, intimate partner violence, and elder abuse.
Discussions on...
by Peter Titelman
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
One look inside Clinical Applications of Bowen Family Systems Theory, and you’ll see that your most current clinical dilemmas are not as difficult to solve as you think. You’ll find plenty of information to assist you in treating a vast audience of populations--the elderly, college students, troubled...
Careless Caregivers
True Eldercare Stories of Rotten Bananas, Stolen Morphine & Shrinky Dinks™
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
Careless Caregivers is not a planner or guide to eldercare nor is it a diary or journal relating an eldercare odyssey. Rather, it is a short collection of true stories about one family’s eldercare experience with hired in-home caregivers. Told in a blunt and humorous fashion, the book has a simple...
Advanced Methods in Family Therapy Research
A Focus on Validity and Change
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
Research is vital in moving the field of family therapy forward, but the myriad of possibilities inherent in working with systems and individuals can overwhelm even the most seasoned researcher. Advanced Methods in Family Therapy Research is the best resource to address the day-to-day questions that...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
Use this newly developed family-oriented approach to be a better youth worker!
In A Child and Youth Care Approach to Working with Families, practitioners and trainers in a new child methodology show you how to expand your youth program to involve family work using the Child and Youth Care Approach....
Preserving Family Ties
An Authoritative Guide to Understanding Divorce and Child Custody, for Parents and Family Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
Preserving Family Ties was not written to give you a formula for action. Rather, this is a guidebook for understanding. It was written to give a clearer understanding of the complexity in child custody when parents separate.
This book provides you the historical context for the changes you...
Kingdom Family Devotional
52 Weeks of Growing Together
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
This new devotional from Dr. Tony Evans and his son Jonathan Evans will provide both single and married parents with a resource tool to maximize those family devotional times, such as the dinner hour or bedtime. The family virtues–based devotional provides 52 separate topics, one for each week of...
Family Ambiguity and Domestic Violence in Asia
Concept, Law and Process
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Domestic violence in Asia is explored in this analysis through questions of family ambiguity and the relationship between concept, law, and strategy. Comparative experiences in the Asian context enable an examination of the effectiveness of family regulations and laws in diverse national, cultural,...
by Lori Cain
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
My husband and I live with and care for both of his elderly parents and my mother. Our experiences as family caregivers inspired this series of e-booklets. In this first booklet: How our family prepared a home to care for our elderly parents I share the steps we took to create a warm, comfortable...
by Shannon Honeybloom, Skip Hunt
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Making a Family Home is a book of real beauty, one both personal and universal. In describing her home and family life, Shannon Honeybloom shows how she made-and how we can make-a house into a real home as she shares her own efforts, hopes, and lessons in making a safe and healthy home that provides...
Random Family
Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
Random Family tells the American outlaw saga lurking behind the headlines of gangsta glamour, gold-drenched drug dealers, and street-corner society. With an immediacy made possible only after ten years of reporting, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc immerses the reader in the mind-boggling intricacies of the...
by Will Cunningham
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2011
It’s Time to Fight Right
If you’re involved with one or more people in a continuing relationship, you can bank on one thing for sure: there will be conflict. Are you married? You will disagree. Are you single and living with parents or roommates? You will have different opinions. Do you...
Destructive Myths in Family Therapy
How to Overcome Barriers to Communication by Seeing and Saying -- A Humanistic Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
Exposes destructive patterns of communication within family cultures and provides strategies for promoting more open dialogue among family members.
Equips family therapists to help clients see the barriers they place in the way of healthy communication, and adopt more constructive alternatives
Provides...