Family category: 58238 books
The Practice of Family Therapy
Key Elements Across Models
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
Now in its fifth edition, The Practice of Family Therapy comes at a time when traditional approaches to psychotherapy have given way to multidimensional strategies that best serve the needs of diverse groups who are grappling with the many challenges unique to family therapy practice. With expanded...
Lessons From the Garden
Holidazes!
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2018
Our lives get complicated and when we add holidays and family gatherings to them we may take the complicated up exponentially. I try to see the players (characters) and plots in a perspective that shines a light on their strengths. Sometimes it’s tough. We all have that one relative (and you know...
Family and Marital Psychotherapy (Psychology Revivals)
A Critical Approach
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
The family therapy movement had from its earliest days been marked by a surge of creativity and by the energy of the new ideas it generated. Originally published in 1979, the authors of the original essays collected together in this book felt that the time had come to take stock and to scrutinise...
American Gothic
The Story of America's Legendary Theatrical Family—Junius, Edwin, and John Wilkes Booth
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
A New York Times–bestselling author’s “lively” account of a family of famous actors—who became notorious after the assassination of President Lincoln (The New Yorker).
Junius Booth and his sons, Edwin and John Wilkes, were nineteenth-century America’s most famous theatrical family....
by Lee Gabel
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
An impossible choice. A race against time.
How far would you go to save the life of your child?
A photographer with an eye for life, Deanna has lived through her lens her entire professional career. Together with her workaholic husband Max and her baseball-loving teenage son Alex, they've...
by Akhil Sharma
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
**Winner of the 2016 International Dublin Literary Award
"Gorgeously tender at its core…beautiful, heartstopping…Family Life really blazes." —Sonali Deraniyagala, New York Times Book Review**
Hailed as a "supreme storyteller" (Philadelphia Inquirer) for his "cunning, dismaying...
The Family Fang
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2011
Now a major motion picture starring Nicole Kidman, Jason Bateman and Christopher Walken.
“The Family Fang is a comedy, a tragedy, and a tour-de-force examination of what it means to make art and survive your family….The best single word description would be brilliant.”
—Ann Patchett,...
An American Family
An American Family, #1
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Isaac Childs has the perfect life—until that life comes crashing down when his wife Ramie vanishes.
"Baer writes with guts and sensitivity -- the kind of suspense that turns a reader into a fan. I can't wait for his next thrilling read." ~ Gregg Olsen, New York Times #1 Bestselling...
Why Do I Love These People?
Understanding, Surviving, and Creating Your Own Family
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2009
We all have an imaginary definition of a great family. We imagine what it would be like to belong to such a family. No fights over the holidays. No getting on one another’s nerves. Respect for individual identity. Mutual support, without being intrusive. So many people believe they are disqualified...
Dinner: The Playbook
A 30-Day Plan for Mastering the Art of the Family Meal: A Cookbook
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Three signs you need this book:**
1) Chicken fingers qualify as adventurous. (Hey, they’re not nuggets.)
2) You live in fear of the white stuff touching the green stuff.
3) Family dinner? What’s family dinner?
When Jenny Rosenstrach’s kids were little,...
by Anthony Ekanem
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
When reflecting on family budgeting and inquiring why not more families are using it, it becomes self-evident that similar skepticism runs rampant and deep in reality and society, even globally so. Once you start probing family budgets, expending time and energy researching the subject in-depth,...
by Christine Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
You are invited to read my memoirs, With Vigilance, a woman of long term recovery. Someone told me my story is the key that can unlock someone else's prison. The slow, painful path back to becoming a functioning member of society, seeking employment, unlearning many messages, took much time, and many...
It Takes A Family
A Cooperative Approach to Lasting Sobriety
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
Counselor and interventionist Debra Jay shows alcoholics, other addicts, and their loved ones how to work collaboratively and as individuals to take on the roles and responsibilities that support long-term sobriety.
Most books on recovery from addiction focus either on the addict or the family....
by Liisa Vexler
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2015
As she was writing The Family Freedom Project: A Step-by-Step Guide to Living Abroad with Kids. From Dream to Plan to Reality, Liisa Vexler began to collect accounts from the expats she met in life and travel. How did they come to live the life they did?Each of their stories is unique and different,...