Presented as a therapist''s guide, Family Rec overy details a structured, research-based approach to worki ng with the families of substance abusers. '
Stress, Coping and Health in Families is a s tudy of individuals, families, and ethnic groups moving towa rds health, providing new insights as to why some families m anage life events with relative ease and recover from advers ity with renewed strength. '
Mental disorders cost the United States over $72 billion for treatment, related support and lost productivity each year - yet funding for prevention of such disorders has been inconsistent due, partly, to lack of confidence in the effectiveness of specific prevention programmes. This book highlights some of the most effective prevention programmes ......
Mental disorders cost the United States over $72 billion for treatment, related support and lost productivity each year - yet funding for prevention of such disorders has been inconsistent due, partly, to lack of confidence in the effectiveness of specific prevention programmes. This book highlights some of the most effective prevention programmes ......
Millions of Americans believe Social Security will be bankrupt by the time they retire; they resent contributing to a system that may never benefit them. This book presents a plan, according to which, retirees all 80,000,000 Baby Boomers could receive over $5,000 per month at age 65 instead of the $1,138 per month.
A Group Approach with Adolescents for the Prevention of Woman Abuse and the Promotion of Healthy Relationships
Designed to combat physical and sexual aggression against women and children, this prevention programme manual is based on the premise that the best opportunity for promoting healthy, non-violent relationships is to intervene during adolescence, when peer relationships and interpersonal style become firmly established. The proactive, ......
This book analyzes the phenomenon of family care for three populations of adult dependents with chronic disabilities: adults with developmental disabilities; adults with serious, persistent mental illness; and the frail elderly. Family care of relatives spanning the life course and across cultures is emphasized.
As divorce rates rise, family mediation represents an alternative way of making settlements without involving an already overburdened judicial system. This book presents a discussion of the current North American trends in the burgeoning field of family mediation by featuring both a review of the literature and a model for family mediation practice. The practice model presented here, Therapeutic Family Mediation, stresses an ecological perspective, and considers the feminist critique of the mediation process. The authors also address mediation's role in the important issues of joint custody, ethnicity, and child protection. Future directions in family mediation are examined in the final part.
Representations of Domestic Crime in England, 1550-1700
Looking back at images of violence in the popular culture of early modern England, we find that the specter of the murderer loomed most vividly not in the stranger, but in the familiar; and not in the master, husband, or father, but in the servant, wife, or mother. A gripping exploration of seventeenth-century accounts of domestic murder in fact ......
