Family category: 58238 books
Understanding Child and Family Welfare
Statutory Responses to Children at Risk
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2011
How do workers around the world balance risk and support to ensure that their practice meets the ever-changing needs of children and their families?
Renowned authors Marie Connolly and Kate Morris join forces to explore the frameworks and ideas which have shaped contemporary child and family...
Standing Tall
Challenged of Faith, Hope and Love
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2006
Standing Tall: Challenges of Faith, Hope, and Love This story and/or narrative depicts the life of a young African American couple with twelve children who supported its self by sharecropping and whatever means possible to survive. The contents of this offering is based on the lives of Theodore Hayden,...
by A.K. David, G.K. Goodenough, J.E. Scherger
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This follow-up and review book to Dr. Robert Taylor's highly successful FAMILY MEDICINE: PRINCIPALS AND PRACTICE, will become an indespensible study guide for family practice residents preparing for certification exams, practitioners preparing for recertification and medical students during their...
Child Custody
Legal Decisions and Family Outcomes
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
For too long, divorce and remarriage literature has focused only on the outcome in the personal lives of the divorcees during and after divorce. But now, in Child Custody: Legal Decisions and Family Outcomes, you’ll see that divorce is a chain reaction that begins in the courtrooms and branches...
by Chris U. I. Ogholoh
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
Have you reached that point in your relationship with your spouse, children, parents, maids and the aged where you felt if only you knew what to do to make them happy? Or are you looking for ways to enhance happiness in your family but do not really know how to do it? If this aptly describes you,...
by Kerry J. Daly
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2007
Qualitative Methods for Family Studies and Human Development serves as a step-by-step, interdisciplinary, qualitative methods text for those working in the areas of family studies, human development, family therapy, and family social work. Providing a systematic outline for carrying out qualitative...
by Ann Palmer
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2012
When a child is diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD), what the family really need, and often lack, is positive reassurance and understanding from those closest to them. This book is packed with advice on how extended family members and friends can provide the necessary support.
Explaining...
by Jo Bridgeman, Craig Lind
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Focusing on moral, social and legal responsibilities as opposed to rights or obligations, this volume explores the concept of responsibility in family life, law and practice. Divided into four parts, the study considers the nature of family responsibility; constructions of children's responsibilities;...
Happiness in San Francisco, Disaster in San Diego, and Other Sherwood Family Stories
The Times and Events in the Life of One Family over a 50-Year Period (1948-1998)
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2012
This book is divided in two parts. The first, by far the larger, is a recording of events in the history of the Sherwood family, whose origins lie in the marriage of Frank P. Sherwood and Frances Howell on February 14, 1948. As might be anticipated, the first story is about a very happy honeymoon...
Engaging Theories in Family Communication
Multiple Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
Engaging Theories in Family Communication, Second Edition delves deeply into the key theories in family communication, focusing on theories originating both within the communication discipline and in allied disciplines. Contributors write in their specific areas of expertise, resulting in an exceptional...
by Jerrold Mundis
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2015
A BOOK-OF-THE-MONTH CLUB SELECTION
Gerhardt's Children is an extraordinary family saga about a fiercely German Catholic clan growing up in midwestern America.
Epic in scope and emotional appeal, it is a story of angry sons and rebellious daughters, hapless mates and lovers, trapped in...
The Madonna of the Mountains
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
**“A riveting adventure for the soul . . . just the kind of evocative historical fiction I love.”—Sara Gruen, author of At the Water’s Edge and Water for Elephants
An epic, inspiring novel about one woman’s survival in the hardscrabble Italian countryside and her determination to...
The Lost Family
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
The Lost Family is an extraordinary read, the kind of book that makes you sob and smile, the kind that gives you hope…. It is compassionate, masterful and disturbingly contemporary."—Tatiana de Rosnay, bestselling author of Sarah’s Key
The New York Times bestselling author of Those...
Family Skeletons
A Spunky Missouri Genealogist Traces A Family's Roots...And Digs Up A Deadly Secret
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
In Rett MacPherson's Family Skeletons, as resident genealogist, historian, tour guide, and occasional amateur snoop, Victory "Torie" O'Shea can be found anywhere in the historic German town of New Kassel, Missouri--mixing fudge, giving tours, tracing family trees, and even investigating...