Family psychology

The ready availability of donated sperm and eggs has made possible an entirely new form of family.

Developmental Play Assessment for Practitioners (DPA-P) Guidebook and Training Website: Project Play offers a comprehensive assessment of naturally occurring play activities for evaluating young children's developmental progress accurately, so that useful interventions can take place as early as possible.

Originally published in 1986, there was a divorce between the immense amount of research taking place in child psychology and the real world of professional carers or teachers working with children at the time.

This book provides a feminist lens to the approach of mental health and medical care; it challenges the traditional notion of gender to expand beyond biology.

Parents these days are under a great deal of pressure to be "e;perfect.

The association between parents' behaviour and children's cognitive development is at the meeting place of several prominent theories of psychological development and a range of complex methodological and conceptual issues.

The most important emphasis is the focus on children''s lives, which combines child and parent depressive contexts.

The world is continually changing.

African American Relationships, Marriages, and Families, Second Edition is a historically and culturally centered research-based text designed for use in undergraduate, graduate, and community-based courses on African American relationships, marriages, and families.

This multidisciplinary volume offers an essential, comprehensive study of perspectives on the scope and application of the best interests of the child and focuses mainly on its application in relation to child custody.

Any parent who has raised more than one child is likely to be keenly aware of subtle or even striking differences among their offspring.

Written for researchers, practitioners, and students in advanced courses, this book furthers our understanding of the complexity of contemporary families.

In this richly textured study of personal growth and creativity hemmed in by childhood disaster, Shengold compares the differing gifts and differing solutions of extraordinary talents as they seek to negotiate a universal longing to refind the mother without sliding back into neglect, abuse, and despair.

A benchmark of the current state of scholarship, synthesizing the extant theoretical and empirical literature on personal relationships.

Motherhood and Mental Illness offers an in-depth, comprehensive relational psychotherapeutic framework to provide effective treatment for those experiencing maternal mental illness.

This book offers a broader, more positive picture of African American fathers.

This timely volume explores the impact of dramatic social change that has disrupted established patterns of family life and human development in the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council.

Same-Sex Marriage and Children is the first book to bring together historical, social science, and legal considerations to comprehensively respond to the objections to same-sex marriage that are based on the need to promote so-called "e;responsible procreation"e; and child welfare.

Tools for Effective Therapy with Children and Families provides mental health professionals with step-by-step tools and strategies for effective therapeutic outcomes with children and their families.

This handbook brings together the latest thinking on the scientific study of closeness and intimacy from some of the most active and widely recognized relationship scholars in social and clinical psychology, communication studies, and related disciplines.

This book identifies and addresses potential clinical issues for clients who have family members struggling with addiction, and offers concrete strategies for treatment.

Although sexuality is an integral part of close romantic relationships, research linking these two constructs has been less systematic than other areas pertaining to close relationships.

This book explores how considerations of justice apply to procreative decision-making.

This book addresses key questions facing the child therapist--how and when to bring parents into the treatment process and give them tools to support their childs healthy development.

The Baby and the Couple provides an insider's view on how infant communication develops in the context of the family and how parents either work together as a team or struggle in the process.

Now in its second edition, this text introduces readers to the rich history and practice of Marriage and Family Therapy, with 32 professionals from across the US presenting their knowledge in their areas of expertise.

This book describes a blend of insight-oriented, behavioral, and strategic family therapy, which the author has developed over thirty-four years of dealing with suicidal adolescents.

This book illuminates the successful implementations of one of the few evidence-based parenting intervention programs.

This multi-disciplinary resource provides an overview of perinatal mental and physical health issues within the military population.

In recent years, the literature on the topic of ethnic and racial issues in Alzheimer's disease and other dementias has increased dramatically.

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Introduction to Family Processes: Diverse Families, Common Ties serves to provide an explanation of the complex workings of inner family life.

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Winner of the 2023 SSTAR Consumer Book Award!

Parental involvement in children's education is a subject of growing interest and recent legislation in both the UK and USA has given formal recognition of parents' rights.

A new type of childhood is experienced these days by many children in industrial societies that provide child care services.

When a child is diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD), what the family really need, and often lack, is positive reassurance and understanding from those closest to them.

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Surviving Family Care Giving: Co-ordinating effective care through collaborative communication is a practical book for family and other home carers in a variety of situations.

Working With Families in Medical Settings provides mental-health professionals with the tools they need to figure out what patients and families want and how, within the constraints imposed by 21st-century healthcare setting, to best give them the care they need.

Over a relatively brief period of time pediatric psychology as an organized field has evolved and expanded as a science and in clinical practice.

The concept of self-esteem is a fixture in the psychological and moral landscape of American society.

`The authors have done their homework in reading and consulting with the prominent literature, especially regarding children.

Understanding Your Gifted Child From the Inside Out provides an engaging and encouraging look at raising gifted children today.

Concern with stress and coping has a long history in biomedical, psychological and sociological research.

Learn how you can cut down on rapport-building time, make your services accessible to more people, and put your consumers at ease during treatment by offering in-home and natural community-based behavioral health services.

In the burgeoning research literature on adolescents, the relative paucity of work examining ethnic variations in developmental processes is a glaring gap, particularly because approximately one third of American young people now come from an ethnic minority background.

Presenting interventions that are practical, effective, and easy to implement in educational and clinical settings, this book addresses the most frequently encountered emotional and behavioral problems in 3- to 6-year-olds.

Counseling Addicted Families, Second Edition, is an up-to-date treatment manual that fosters lasting change for families dealing with addiction and addictive disorders.

Bringing together clinical expertise with the latest findings from social, affective, and cognitive neuroscience, this accessible guide outlines how basic concepts of neuroscience and family therapy can be highly relevant to all mental health treatment.