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Learn to choose interventions based on the client's developmental stage! Teenagers are often a strain on families, and they can pose difficulties even in a family therapy setting. Developmental-Systemic Family Therapy with Adolescents integrates research and theory about adolescent development...

Todays media constantly report on the sorrowful state of todays families. From rebellious and disrespectful children to absent and abusive parents, the modern family is in disarray. Rev. Dr. Donald R. Wesson presents a faith-based, spiritual guide for repairing the cracks in your familys foundation....

Ready-to-implement resources and approaches for effective professional care in school and clinical settings. The reverberations of autism spectrum disorders among parents and siblings can be complex. Parents may grapple with the impact of their child's initial diagnosis, wrestle with the tension...

The child protective system (CPS), shaped by federal law forty years ago and run on the state and county levels in the United States, offered in utopian fashion the hope of preventing all possible child abuse or neglect. In response, legislators enacted a spate of vague laws that poorly defined such...

Before early humans learned how to write, the stories of their history existed only in the memories of the elders. Sitting around a campfire, children listened raptly as their parents and grandparents, uncles and aunts told what it was like the day they killed the mammoth. Or how nearly everyone drowned...

Family by Gods Design is A safe haven where family members esteem and honor one another and where words and actions communicate value and respect to everyone, young and old; A reliable sanctuary where each person receives grace, unconditional acceptance, and extravagant generosity with...

Family Policy focuses on the main family activities that are of concern in social policy and social work. This book explores how families behave and questions the implications for policies and practice. Perceptions of and responses to family 'pathologies' - teenage pregnancies, family breakdown, family...

I love reading bonus scenes or watching bonus clips on television. If someone told me I could read about or watch Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet get married, I would be beyond excited. Imagination is great, but there are times when I don’t want to imagine or guess—I want to know! I even want to...

Sam's wife Heidi is the only woman at the South Pole this winter, so it isn't long before he starts worrying about the rough, muscled, studs who are there to keep things running. It seems his wife has always wanted a different kind of man, and now that there's nowhere else to go, she'll get her fill...

More than two million couples wed every year in the United States, bringing together a whole new family unit. The extended family may now include a hard to please mother-in-law who criticizes her daughter-in-law's childrearing; or a patriarchal father-in-law who expects all the kin round the dinner...

Children are not born with any particular knowledge or skills, therefore everything they need to know about how to survive in the real world they have to either learn at school or from you, their parents. Sadly, children dont learn vital financial lessons in school; therefore its up to you to teach...

Did you miss some issues in 2012? Here are the articles that were published on www.familytodayforum.com in 2012. Family Today Forum is a new e-magazine that launched in October 2011.Family Today Forum is an e-magazine directed toward today’s traditional family, the step family, the single...

Do you have a list of “someday” things – a list of what you’d like to do or see, famous people you’d like to meet, roles you’d like to fill? A bucket list of goals for your lifetime? What if you combined that “someday” list with today’s list of things “to do”? If you’re thinking...

Family therapy has become a well-established treatment modality across many mental health disciplines including clinical social work, psychology, psychiatry, nursing, and counseling. This book tells the story of how family therapy began based on the work of one of the pioneers of family theory and...