The author provides a personal historical review of his seventy-seven years as a journalist and a critic of the press and includes his insights into events and personalities of the twentieth century.

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

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.

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

Product Description: Book by Field, David

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Discusses courtship, marriage, sibling rivalry, two-career families, affairs, and divorce, and looks at actual cases of family problems

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Speaking to the need for a nurturing family, the author demonstrates--using five families as examples--the unique healing potential that the family provides

Product Description: Book by Feldmeyer, Dean

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

Product Description: The processes by which family members adjust to the birth of a second child are explored in this volume. Interviews with both parents and with toddler first-born children focused on how the birth of the second child affected the relationships between other family members, their roles within the family and their feelings about themselves...read more

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.

Product Description: Fine green cloth-covered boards with title blind-stamped on cover, and stamped in black on spine; with photographically illustrated dust jacket. Photographs and text by Larry Sultan. Edited by Eric Himmel. Designed by Katy Homans, with Sayre Coombs.

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

Product Description: Book by Nichols, Michael P.

Book by Olson, David H.

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.

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.

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