The author combines personal reminiscences with advice on how to deal with poor family dynamics, examining his own dysfunctional upbringing, his relationships with his many siblings, and how he learned to make peace with the past.

Product Description: Help! My Family's Messed Up is a compassionate guide for those living in a troubled household or recovering from broken homes, abuse, or other traumas in their families. Drawing from true, contemporary stories of those who have survived a family torn in two, this book shows that with God there is hope for healing...read more

The daughter of a narcissistic and addictive mother shares the story of her life as it was influenced by her glamorous and charismatic mother's ill-fated teen elopement, compulsive lies, and dependence on cocaine, narcotics, and sex. Simultaneous.

Product Description: Her Last Death begins as the phone rings early one morning in the Montana house where Susanna Sonnenberg lives with her husband and two young sons. Her aunt is calling to tell Susanna her mother is in a coma after a car accident. She might not live...read more

Product Description: This text and professional resource offers an alternative approach to thinking about and working with “difficult” families. From a nonpathologizing stance, William C. Madsen demonstrates creative ways to help family members shift their relationship to longstanding problems; envision desired lives; and develop more proactive coping strategies...read more

Product Description: David Thompson candidly shares the story of his own familys battles with some of these issuesand their eventual healingas an example of Gods work in this area. Convinced that Christian discipleship leads to restoration, he offers solid, biblical principles that any family can use to find forgiveness, reconciliation, healing, and recovery...read more

Many child-care professionals work therapeutically with both parent and child and are increasingly focusing on the role of parents, yet there is very little information and guidance to help professionals in this work. Saralea E. Chazan's introduction to the simultaneous treatment of parent and child brings together theoretical background and suggestions for practice in an accessible and comprehensive format. Taking the reader through the theory of simultaneous treatment and the psychological processes underlying it she draws on three in-depth case studies of children she has worked with. She shows how effective treatment of parent and child by the same therapist either in combined or separate sessions can bring about significant therapeutic effects in a child's development and sense of self. This useful book will be a welcome resource for social workers, child psychiatrists, family therapists and other professionals working with children.

Describes how to break the frustrating bonds of familiar patterns, habits, behaviors, and beliefs which create an atmosphere of dysfunction in one's life to create a more fulfilling, successful, and happy life. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Research has shown that interventions providing psychoeducation and assistance to family members significantly reduce hospitalizations for people with serious mental illness, and help families cope. But research-based models have not been implemented in most mental health systems...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Resistant, difficult, dysfunctional--these and other labels are often applied to families who have not been well served by traditional mental health, social service, and medical systems. This volume sets forth an alternative approach to thinking about and working with multi-stressed families...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This volume is a comprehensive study of parentification in the family―children who fulfill the role of parents to their own parents or to their siblings, almost always at the expense of their own development. The book is divided into two sections: theory and research and contextual perspectives...read more

Product Description: We all know what a "good mother" looks like on television and in the popular imagination: typically she is white, heterosexual, and married, and devotes herself full-time to child care. But increasing numbers of women who mother today do not fit this narrow traditional image,and their different experiences of mothering are often maligned, misunderstood, or ignored...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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