Elizabeth Stone interviewed more than 100 people of all ages and ethnic backgrounds and asked them to recount stories from their own family histories. She found that these stories not only impart a sense of belonging and of shared history, but also help us to define ourselves.

Analyzes the structure of families, examines the unexpressed rules used to raise children, and discusses family violence, child abuse, and dysfunctional families

Analyzes the structure of families, examines the unexpresssed rules used to raise children, and discusses family violence, child abuse, and dysfunctional families (view table of contents)

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Argues that family problems develop because fathers, mothers, and children experience events differently and are oblivious to the others' feelings

Product Description: Are you prepared to deliver effective services to a wide range of families and family situations?Diverse Families, Competent Families provides human service professionals with a portrait of the real lives and practical challenges of our nation's families as they face a new millennium...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Authoritative handbook provides a valuable guide for engineers, designers, and equipment specifiers, as well as operators who want to optimize the efficiency and reliability of their electric motor systems. DLC: Electric motors.

A closer look at your patient’s family situation can help you develop a more effective treatment planFamily Behavioral Issues in Health and Illness is a basic but thorough introduction to the impact family dynamics can have on a person’s health. Ideal as a supplemental training text for healthcare professionals, this unique book examines the connections between family and health, presenting a concise summary of family systems theory, basic family assessment, and the family life cycle. The book provides an understanding of how the patterns and systems found in a diverse range of family styles can create special health issues, and how the ability to assess and anticipate those issues can ensure the most comprehensive patient care and cost-effective management of time and resources.As long as families continue to be the primary environment where patients learn and develop their beliefs and overall attitudes about life, it remains essential that any primary healthcare model includes a strong background in family dynamics and the critical, pivotal points of family life. Family Behavioral Issues in Health and Illness addresses the most important aspects of family to consider when providing care, presenting practical, real-life case studies that examine the resilience, strengths, and possibilities of families, as well as the problems and dysfunctions. The book looks at how significant events, such as marriage, divorce, birth, and death affect families, and how a knowledge of special family issues, including parenting, abuse, disability, and chronic illness prepares the healthcare professional to provide effective care for traditional, single-parent, multiracial, blended, adoptive, and same-gender families.Family Behavioral Issues in Health and Illness examines: boundaries, roles, and rules triangulation subsystems scapegoating parentification healthy families the family genogram spiritual crises of family members infertility families without children intergenerational families the family in later life coping with alcoholism, dementia, bereavement, and/or mental illness and much moreFamily Behavioral Issues in Health and Illness is an essential reference for healthcare professionals, educators, parents, and family members. The book provides a practical understanding of family relationships that helps healthcare providers guide patients toward a more complete well-being.

Rudi Dallos discusses the understandings, beliefs, explanations and the constructs that people use in order to manage their relationships in families. "Family" here is a shorthand form for a group of people who are intimately involved over an extended period - and includes one-parent families, step-families, couples without children, homosexual relationships and communal structures. Dallos considers how families construct shared systems of beliefs which serve to guide their percieved options. His argument is illustrated by material drawn from both clinical practice and research into families and employs theories originally formulated in terms of individuals - especially personal construct theory. His aim is to explore intimate relationships in families from the standpoint of people inside them, and to link this exploration to the substantial body of literature which examines families from the outside. In short, this book aims to bridge the gap between system theory (as applied to families) and Kelly's personal construct theory and, in so doing, aims to encourage new ways of seeing and doing therapy. It reveals how a family's problems are related to its shared beliefs and how we can use therapy to challenge those beliefs and help with those problems.

Tells how to deal with difficult relatives, aging parents, and stepchildren, and includes advice on family arguments, contested wills, drug abuse, AIDS, divorce, and religious differences

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Product Description: Rather than emphasizing the problems themselves, this volume examines the prevention of family problems that are caused by stress. It helps readers understand the process of recognizing and managing events and situations that cause high stress in families and why some families go under and some survive in a context of change and tension...read more

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Based on extensive research about what makes families happy, a groundbreaking plan uses six simple steps for transforming an unhappy home into one of joy and peace, focusing on how each individual family member sets the household mood. Original. 15,000 first printing.