Product Description: Irrespective of theoretical orientation, families matter. Families are the entity in which children are introduced to words, objects, shapes, and colors. Families are the people related in a myriad of conventional and unconventional ways that clothe, bathe, and feed its biological and acquired offspring...read more

Product Description: Discover the effective group treatment strategies that help your school-aged clients! A child immersed in a conflicted family life may be forced to cope with a multitude of trauma, including violence, abuse, and insecurity. In A Safe Place to Grow: A Group Treatment Manual for Children in Conflicted, Violent, and Separating Homes, highly respected experts give mental health professionals the tools to provide effective group treatment for children scarred by family environments of conflict and abuse...read more

Product Description: Now with a twenty-page study guide. Many people have been helped by this valuable book, first published five years ago, which addresses those of us who desperately want to change but can’t stop behaving in ways that hurt us and those we love...read more

Offers advice to adult children of dysfunctional families on how to identify, realize, evaluate, and accept healthy boundaries

Discusses the affects that dysfunctional families have on their children and what can be done in terms of therapy to try to bring the family back together.

Product Description: Offering an approach that focuses on the origins of mental health rather than the beginnings of mental illness, this book outlines how men and women can recognize the resilient traits they possess and foster the strength to overcome tragedy...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Explains how alcoholism in a parent can distort a childhood and shows how adults can recreate the nurturing they missed as children