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.

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.

This introduction to marriages and families accentuates the positive aspects of relationships and focuses on enriching students’ knowledge and experience in building strong, successful couple and family relationships. The authors, both seasoned family scholars and therapists, integrate research, theory, and practical application with an interdisciplinary perspective on marriage and family.

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.

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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)

Book by Olson, David H.

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Using the stories of families both rich and poor, angry and despairing, the author of Reviving Ophelia looks at the problems facing America's families today and how we can change the ways we are living to stop these problems. Reprint. Tour.

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)

Tells how to understand the behavior of family members, and discusses patterns of rigidity, dependence, argumentativeness, withdrawal, and indulgence

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

Product Description: University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Analysis based on a telephone survey conducted under the auspices of the AARP, for gerontologists and sociologists. Explores the attitudes and behaviors between different age groups in our society. Sociological orientation.

Product Description: Book by Nichols, Michael P.

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