Family Life Education: Principles and Practices for Effective Outreach is an excellent book for helping students and field professionals develop the knowledge and skills needed to take family science principles to citizens via family life education programs. Authors Stephen F. Duncan and H. Wallace Goddard incorporate leading outreach scholarship with years of professional experience to provide a scholarly, yet practical, guide for current and future family life outreach professionals.  

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Product Description: Proteostasis is central to the development of various human diseases caused due to excessive protein misfolding and the disregulation of the protein quality control system. In this book, respected researchers from many leading institutions contribute their insights on proteostasis maintenance...read more

This text blends theory and research with a focus on applications. Students are encouraged to make informed choices about marriage, family, and relationships based on research studies presented. Includes a new chapter on managing stress and family crisis. More emphasis is placed on cultural, structural, and interpersonal explanations for choices. Racial and ethnic coverage is expanded, and coverage of older populations is increased.

Choices in Relationships

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Product Description: The fourth edition of this trusted text preserves the personal appeal of the subject matter and vigorous standards of scholarship that made the earlier editions so successful. It presents the key findings on intimate relationships, the major theoretical perspectives, and some of the current controversies in the field...read more

Product Description: Because the right choice is an informed choice, CHOICES IN RELATIONSHIPS: AN INTRODUCTION TO MARRIAGE AND FAMILY, TENTH EDITION arms you with the knowledge and confidence you need to make wise decisions for a lifetime of positive relationships...read more

Product Description: Learn how to develop and teach effective courses on the vital issues of family lifeThe Craft of Teaching About Families presents a variety of course designs, evaluation methods, and teaching techniques and strategies that can be used to address the complexities of family life...read more

Product Description: TEACHING CHILDREN ABOUT HUMAN SEXUALITY: A SKILLS BASED APPROACH is designed to provide students with the necessary skills to teach Sexual Education to children of all grade levels. The text's "life skills applied to content" approach incorporates the seven new national standards established by the profession as desired outcomes of Health Education curricula, with an emphasis on communication, problem solving, decision-making, stress management, and goal setting as they apply to human sexuality content...read more

Product Description: This "choices" theme based marriage and family textbook supports the goals of most professors by applying research and theory to students' lives, and by encouraging lively classroom discussion. How? Through its interactive pedagogy (e...read more

Product Description: This 7 session study will explore how contemporary young adult Christians who are either living alone or in a family group may create or contribute to a supportive and nurturing "family" life. Session titles include: Defining Family--What is a family? The Value of Family--Why should I care about family when I can make it on my own? Tensions between individuality and community, dependence or independence...read more

Product Description: 401 Ways to Get Your Kids to Work at Home is an essential book for busy parents who would like to get their kids to share the housework and who would like a systematic program to ensure that their kids know all the basic living skills by the time they leave home at age eighteen...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This text supports the goals of most professors: applies research and theory to the students' lives, encourages lively classroom discussion, and offers alternatives and choices. This is the best book to accomplish these goals. How? Interactive pedagogy (e...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A practical guide for planning and preparing for life as a single adult, as a married couple, and as part of a family or other group arrangements.

Relationships, home management, money, grooming, housing, interior design, clothing, food, career selection and applying for a job form the main topics of this home economics textbook.

Family has always been an important aspect of a healthy life. New Families is a new handbook on how to create more meaningful bonds within families. With over twenty-two years of experience in private practice, author C. Margaret Hall shows readers how to make family bonds come to life in creative and flexible ways rather than becoming tight and restrictive.New Families presents not only real-life family experiences but also suggests ways families can become stronger through more meaningful interaction with other family members. For readers searching for ideas on how to help clients improve their family ties, they'll find it in this book:compile a family history and locate “lost” relatives learn creative strategies for knowing family history and using that to move forward cope with family crises and learn to grow from them participate in and benefit from special celebrations and life transitions like births, marriages, and even funerals take the drudgery out of family obligationsThis new book guides readers to use their emotional resources and imagination to improve our family relationships and cooperation--to develop families that work.