Sociology: family and relationships

Effective clinical practice requires a thorough understanding of how turning points surface in the play therapy process.

The scale of the Rotherham child protection scandal has led professionals responsible for safeguarding children in other regions to recognise the extent of child abuse in their area and consider how to respond efficiently.

In The Good Book of Mental Hygiene, expect insight, humor, healing, and a human perspective on all thought-based disorders.

Around the globe, families are often faced with a variety of health issues, often as a result of social, political, religious, and economic forces.

Helping vulnerable children and young people to build protective behaviours is the key to keeping them safe.

This volume will focus on innovative research that examines how the nature of paid work intersects with family and personal life today.

Combining contemporary research with practice findings, this book shows how we can improve the mental health of children in care.

Around the globe, families are often faced with a variety of health issues, often as a result of social, political, religious, and economic forces.

As social scientists, we are called to investigate society.

Demonstrating how the law and statutory guidance applies in practice, this book is a critical account of current family justice policy and practice.

Written by experienced clinicians, this book provides an exploration of how educators can easily use Dyadic Developmental Practice (DDP) to help vulnerable pupils to thrive.

Europe and Love in Cinema explores the relationship between love and Europeanness in a wide range of films from the 1920s to the present.

While the family remains a core social institution in every society, it is, nonetheless, an institution which continues to evolve.

Full of research backed advice, examples, and reflection questions throughout, this book is for fathers seeking to build their parenting identity while effectively supporting their child from conception to adulthood.

Now in its eleventh edition, Family Communication: Cohesion and Change continues to provide students with a foundational, accessible, and inclusive overview of the family communication field.

Now in its eleventh edition, Family Communication: Cohesion and Change continues to provide students with a foundational, accessible, and inclusive overview of the family communication field.

The first book offering support for parents and carers of children and young people with Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD), this guidebook explains the condition as well as the impact that it may have in education settings, family life and socialisation.

After an unconventional childhood that ended in the tragic death of her mother and the murder of her Alaskan mobster father, Kim Rich was left on her own at the young age of fifteen to fend for herself.

Susan Campbell's advice is as provocative as it is simple: stay present and get real in your relationships.

This book examines the representation of infertility, assisted reproduction, miscarriage, adoption and surrogacy in a wide range of media, including blogs, vlogs, social media posts and factual programming.

This perceptive volume presents conceptual, theoretical, and empirical approaches to social policy analysis comparing China and Nordic countries in their treatment of the elderly.

The brief provides an overview of Dr.

This book is centred upon the concept of 'ethnonationality,' investigating how its meanings and functions have changed across political regimes, time, and generations.

This book addresses the universal and topical question of solidarity across generations from a comparative perspective, with a particular focus on the legal issues concerning retirement pensions, the poverty in the elderly, long-term care, as well as state interventions and family support for those at risk.

This book examines the proliferation of surrogacy storylines on TV, exploring themes of infertility, motherhood, parenting and family.

Drawing upon a diverse range of archival evidence, medical treatises, religious texts, public discourses, and legal documents, this book examines the rich historical context in which controversies surrounding the medical neglect of children erupted onto the American scene.

This book discusses the emergence of care for orphaned, abandoned and poor children in Lithuania from the early twentieth century to the beginning of the Second World War.

This insightful volume explores the experiences of ethnic migrants returning to Hong Kong, Singapore, and Israel.

Largely as a result of social policies and cultural factors, the Nordic countries continually score high in lifestyle measures, quality of life and children's outcomes.

This book explores a central methodological issue at the heart of studies of the histories of children and childhood.

This book revolves around neoliberal notions governing children and youth - a trend that permeates and dominates contemporary perceptions of "e;the young.

This book provides cutting-edge, evidence-based strategies and interventions that target students' engagement at school and with learning.

This book is about friendships in public settings today.

This collection of essays offers innovative methodological and disciplinary approaches to the intersection of Anglophone literary cultures with children and childhoods across the twentieth century.

This book explores the links between recent reports of increasing levels of unhappiness and mental health problems amongst children and young people, and changes within childhood which restrict and reduce opportunities for children to develop and maintain resilience.

European countries have faced profound changes in family structures and family forms over the last few decades.

This book is about the impact of austerity in and on everyday life, based on a two-year ethnography with families and communities in 'Argleton', Greater Manchester, UK.

This handbook provides a global perspective on contemporary demographic theories and studies of marriage and the family.

Winner of the Leisure Studies Association's Outstanding Book Prize This book examines the tensions and ambivalences which men encounter as they negotiate contemporary expectations of fatherhood and fulfill their own expectations of what it means to be a 'good' father.

This textbook offers a comprehensive overview of research on LGBTQ-parent families.

This book explores and analyses the evolution of social insurance in Cyprus from 1878, beginning with the arrival of the British after 300 years of Ottoman occupation.

This book explores the distinctive theoretical and methodological features associated with conducting ethical and respectful research with young families, along with its unique considerations and challenges.

This book explores the experience of childhood and adolescence in later medieval English rural society from 1250 to 1450.

This book provides an updated and fresh introduction to recent theoretical developments in youth studies.

This book offers a strengths-based, family-focused approach to improving the educational performance and  school experience of struggling Black and Latino students.

This book uses the youth life stage as a window through which to view all domains of life in present-day Saudi Arabia: family life, education, the impact of new media, the labour market, religion and politics.

This book provides understandings of how intercultural, -racial, -ethnic, -national, and -faith couples and parents in Australia bring up their children and manage their relationships.

This comprehensive reference explores the current and future state of biobehavioral markers in family resilience research, with special focus on linking biological and physiological measures to behavioral and health outcomes.

This book analyzes men's experiences and perceptions regarding their participation in infidelity and offers a glimpse into the inner workings of their most intimate relationships, as well as the ways men negotiate marriages that fall short of their expectations.

This book explores contemporary debates surrounding Poland's 'war children', that is the young victims, participants and survivors of the Second World War.