Family category: 58238 books
by Stephen D. Ratcliffe, MD, MSPH
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2008
Whether you offer comprehensive pregnancy care in your primary care facility, or provide prenatal and postpartum care, this book delivers the guidance you need to optimize health for both mothers and their babies. It covers all aspects of birth care, from preconception counseling and prenatal care,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
The SAGE Encyclopedia of Marriage, Family and Couples Counseling is a new, all-encompassing, landmark work for researchers seeking to broaden their knowledge of this vast and diffuse field.
Marriage and family counseling programs are established at institutions worldwide, yet there is no current...
Back in the Day 2:
The College Years
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2012
Back in the Day 2: The College Years continues the journey of Mike, Kirk, Kyle and Philip as they enter college and embark on a new world outside of the home they left behind in Missouri. It shows how these teens learned on their own how to mature and grow into decent caring people. They had their...
A Family Daughter
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2006
From the award-winning author of Half in Love and Liars and Saints, a riveting story of love, sex, secrets, guilt, and forgiveness.
Maile Meloy's debut novel, Liars and Saints, captured the hearts of readers and critics alike. Now Meloy returns with a novel even more dazzling and unexpected...
The Spirit's Tether
Family, Work, and Religion among American Catholics
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Cultural conflicts about the family - including those surrounding women's social roles, abortion, same-sex marriage, and contraception - have intensified over the last few decades among Catholics, as well as among Americans generally. In fact, they are the source of much of the political polarization...
Families and Forgiveness
Healing Wounds in the Intergenerational Family
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Families and Forgiveness, Second Edition gives the therapist a working knowledge of the importance of love and trustworthiness, skills to adequately assess hurt and pain in a family, and different techniques and conceptualizations to help family members move to make progress in restoring function...
Systems Theory and Family Therapy
A Primer
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
This book provides an overview of the basic concepts of a systems theoretical perspective using families and family therapy as examples and illustrations of their application in professional practice. This meta-perspective focuses on viewing problems in context. The difference between first-order...
Love's Way
Living Peacefully with Your Family as Your Parents Age
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2019
This important book helps families address the necessary legal hurdles and emotional difficulties that arise with aging parents. Addressing the areas of relationships, emotions, and dignity with practical and scriptural insights, this book will help to ensure that the aging parent is protected along...
by Gabriela Elias
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
Michaela Martenz is a dreamer. As a young woman living in Eastern Europe in the 1980s, she wants adventure and passion in her life, and nothing will stop her from achieving that. She is courted by Eduard Verner, a charming man who promises her that and more, but in her naivet, she fails to recognize...
Your Definitive Guide To A Smooth And Trouble-Free Adoption
Very Important Tips On The Adoption Process and Adoption Services So You Can Adopt A Child Without Difficulty And Without Any Hitches
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
Adopting a child is quite commonly done nowadays. It is no longer a rare occurrence to find families that have at least one child in the family that is not biologically the parents’ own. Those who are in the know say that the good thing about adopting a child is that you can choose what kind of...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
Contemporary Families at the Nexus of Research and Practice integrates current research with clinical theory to establish the most up-to-date, evidence-supported treatment options for unique contemporary families. Each chapter begins with a case study and genogram. A research section that explains...
Homegrown Family Fun
Unplugged
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Homegrown Family Fun: Unplugged was written out of a concern for the well-being and success of today's youngsters. As a retired teacher and reading specialist, and as a mother and grandmother I've seen the play lives of children change dramatically. While technology itself is not the problem, the...
Tomorrow's Treasures
Preserving Your Family's Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2006
Capture the essence of you! Record your family's customs, stories, recipes, and genealogy. Pass on your hopes, dreams, and life's wisdom to those you love before it's gone forever. Tomorrow's Treasures is an interactive journal that preserves your family's traditions. It chronicles the personal journey...
La Giara (The Water Jug)
A Story About Longing
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2017
La Giara begins in Sicily in 1909, when adolescent Nunzio Minissale’s imperious cutting in line at the town water fountain leads to breaking his aunt’s giara —the water jug. This incident unleashes a lifetime curse that crosses the Atlantic from Sicily to the New World. La Giara becomes a symbol...