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By Karl Pillemer. 2021
Real solutions to a hidden epidemic: family estrangement.Estrangement from a family member is one of the most painful life experiences.…
It is devastating not only to the individuals directly involved--collateral damage can extend upward, downward, and across generations, More than 65 million Americans suffer such rifts, yet little guidance exists on how to cope with and overcome them. In this book, Karl Pillemer combines the advice of people who have successfully reconciled with powerful insights from social science research. The result is a unique guide to mending fractured families.Fault Lines shares for the first time findings from Dr. Pillemer's ten-year groundbreaking Cornell Reconciliation Project, based on the first national survey on estrangement; rich, in-depth interviews with hundreds of people who have experienced it; and insights from leading family researchers and therapists. He assures people who are estranged, and those who care about them, that they are not alone and that fissures can be bridged.Through the wisdom of people who have "been there," Fault Lines shows how healing is possible through clear steps that people can use right away in their own families. It addresses such questions as: How do rifts begin? What makes estrangement so painful? Why is it so often triggered by a single event? Are you ready to reconcile? How can you overcome past hurts to build a new future with a relative?Tackling a subject that is achingly familiar to almost everyone, especially in an era when powerful outside forces such as technology and mobility are lessening family cohesion, Dr. Pillemer combines dramatic stories, science-based guidance, and practical repair tools to help people find the path to reconciliation.Get Outta My Face!, written for Christian parents, teachers, and youth workers, is about reaching angry, unmotivated, disinterested teens with…
biblical counsel. Such teens confused and insecure - are selfish; they want what they want, right now. They are corrupted by sin and this corruption is the cause of their problem. Despite all their sin problems, they are still made in the image of God, and this is the key to helping them. This book will help with addressing the teen's sin and bringing them to their God-given desires and godly actions. Far from dismissing or sugarcoating sin, this approach opens wide the door to evangelizing the unsaved teen and to helping the Christian teen grow in holiness and wisdom.By David B. Strahan, Mark L'Esperance, John Van Hoose, National Middle School Association Staff. 2009
By Salvador Minuchin. 1974
No other book in the field today so fully combines vivid clinical examples, specific details of technique, and mature perspectives…
on both effectively functioning families and those seeking therapy. The views and strategies of a master clinician are presented here in such clear and precise form that readers can proceed directly from the book with comparisons and modifications to suit their own styles and working situations. Dr. Minuchin presents six chapter-length transcripts of actual family sessions-two devoted to ordinary families who are meeting their problems with relative success; four concerned with families seeking help. Accompanying each transcript is the author's running interpretation of what is taking place, laying particular stress on the therapist's tactics and maneuvers. These lively sessions are interpreted in a brilliant theoretical analysis of why families develop problems and what it takes to set them right. The author constructs a model of an effectively functioning family and defines the boundaries around its different subsystems, whether parental, spouse, or sibling. He discusses ways in which families adapt to stress from within and without, as they seek to survive and grow. Dr. Minuchin describes methods of diagnosing or "mapping" problems of the troubled family and determining appropriate therapeutic goals and strategies. Different situations, such as the extended family, the family with a parental child, and the family in transition through death or divorce, are examined. Finally, the author explores the dynamics of change, examining the variety of restructuring operations that can be employed to challenge a family and to change its basic patterns.By Helen Garner. 1997
Helen Garner delves into the causes and effects of police charges pressed against the Master of Ormond College by two…
female students who claimed he fondled them at a school function. Two overriding questions trouble Ms. Garner throughout her investigations: why did these students choose to go to the police instead of having the matter settled through the school's private arbitration process, and why, when the Master was found innocent of these charges, was he terminated from his position? The First Stone is a call for hard-line feminists to grow up and get conscious. It asks for a new kind of feminism based on the cultivation of an individual's power of self-expression, responsibility, and, indeed, exactly the kind of self-discovery her insightful narrative represents.By Amy C. Wilkins. 2008
Subcultures help young people, especially women, navigate connecting territories by offering them different sexual strategies: wannabes cross racial lines, goths…
break taboos by becoming involved with multiple partners, and Christians forego romance to develop their bond with God.By Jennifer E. Lansford, Anis Ben Brik, Abdallah M. Badahdah. 2021
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. It addresses several major deficits in knowledge regarding family issues in the Gulf countries, bringing a critical perspective to the emerging challenges facing families in this region. Lansford, Ben Brik, and Badahdah examine the role of urbanization, educational progress, emigration, globalization, and changes in the status of women on social change, as well as tackling issues related to marriage, fertility and parenthood, and family well-being. This book explores how family relationships and social policies can promote physical health, psychological well-being, social relationships, safety, cognitive development, and economic security in the Gulf countries, placing a unique emphasis on contemporary families in this region. Families and Social Change in the Gulf Region is essential reading for scholars from psychology, sociology, education, law, and public policy. It will also be of interest to graduate students in these disciplines.By Paul Howe. 2020
Teen Spirit offers a novel and provocative perspective on how we came to be living in an age of political…
immaturity and social turmoil. Award-winning author Paul Howe argues it's because a teenage mentality has slowly gripped the adult world.Howe contends that many features of how we live today—some regrettable, others beneficial—can be traced to the emergence of a more defined adolescent stage of life in the early twentieth century, when young people started spending their formative, developmental years with peers, particularly in formal school settings. He shows how adolescent qualities have slowly seeped upward, where they have gradually reshaped the norms and habits of adulthood. The effects over the long haul, Howe contends, have been profound, in both the private realm and in the public arena of political, economic, and social interaction. Our teenage traits remain part of us as we move into adulthood, so much so that some now need instruction manuals for adulting.Teen Spirit challenges our assumptions about the boundaries between adolescence and adulthood. Yet despite a cultural system that seems to be built on the ethos of Generation Me, it's not all bad. In fact, there has been an equally impressive rise in creativity, diversity, and tolerance within society: all traits stemming from core components of the adolescent character. Howe's bold and suggestive approach to analyzing the teen in all of us helps make sense of the impulsivity driving society and encourages us to think anew about civic reengagement.By Hayley Gene Penner. 2020
“A journey down the rabbit hole of LA's most subtly toxic industry ... funny, brilliant, coy, playful, and wise.” —…
LENA DUNHAM, author of Not That Kind of Girl Musician Hayley Gene Penner tells all in this harrowingly honest memoir. Singer-songwriter Hayley Gene Penner's memoir takes a brutally honest yet humorous look at the dark, intimate truths we spend our lives running from. Like a map of beautiful mistakes, Hayley’s stories of questionable sexual encounters, artistic aspirations, and emotional abuse trace her coming of age in the music industry. Hayley explores all her relationships — from her childhood as the daughter of a celebrity, to the destructive and coercive relationship with her boss, to her encounter with the actor we all know but who mustn’t be named — and brings them together in a series of sharp, touching vignettes. People You Follow straddles the delicate boundary between ethical and unethical behaviour, self-protection and self-destruction, power and weakness, giddiness and despair.By Damian Rogers. 2020
A gripping memoir from acclaimed poet Damian Rogers about being raised by a loving but erratic single mother who is…
today diagnosed with a rare form of frontal-lobe dementia. In the vein of Plum Johnson's They Left Us Everything, Leanne Shapton's Swimming Studies, Jeannette Walls' The Glass Castle and Susannah Cahalan's Brain on Fire."Evocative, beautifully written, heartbreaking . . . of special interest to all whose loved ones suffer from dementia." --Margaret Atwood (on Twitter)"An Alphabet for Joanna is a braid of tiny stories that weaves us into a nest of belonging despite circumstance and injury . . . A memoir of stunning thoughtfulness, Rogers presents us with a loving treatise on what it means to be human." - Leanne Betasamosake SimpsonThroughout her childhood in Detroit, Damian Rogers was never given a satisfactory account of the circumstances that led to her own birth. The "truth" behind the stories she was told by her mother--the free-spirited, beautiful and troubled Joanna--constantly shifted, and Damian was left only with fragments: her mom's trip to California in 1969 after finishing high school, a mysterious trauma and psychotic break, then a return to Detroit, pregnant. Now, as 40-something Damian struggles to cope with Joanna's early-onset dementia, she realizes she may never know the full story.A riveting portrait of a time and place (the leafy suburbs of Detroit, Michigan and working class neighborhoods of Long Beach, California in the 1970s and 80s), An Alphabet for Joanna is also an unconventional mother-daughter saga, and a creative exploration of how memory shifts and shapes our most intimate relationships. Acclaimed poet Damian Rogers crafts a unique work that is both a moving memoir and a powerful philosophical reflection on how we build lives out of fragments of stories. And by tracing her mother's story into the present day she poignantly shows that even when memory fails, we can remain connected through a web of art, empathy, imagination and love.By Jana Kramer, Michael Caussin. 2020
Hosts of the award-winning Whine Down podcast, Jana Kramer and Michael Caussin explore the raw and real moments of their…
marriage—what it means to love, to fight, and to sincerely forgive—with spiritual guidance and practical advice for anyone seeking stronger, more fulfilling love. From the beginning, Mike and Jana had the kind of everyday arguments that drive even the happiest couples apart. Money, careers, insecurity, jealousy...And then kids, infidelity, addiction, and growing walls around their individual hearts. Many people would have separated. But Jana and Mike discovered something invaluable: While fighting under the worst possible circumstances, they learned how to fight for each other with respect, kindness, humor, and faith. The Good Fight reveals how one couple decided to honor their forever love by battling it out and staying together, told from both sides. With honesty, warmth, and hilarity, Jana and Mike walk us through the details of the most complicated fights of their past. They show readers how they've communicated, prayed, forgiven, and radically embraced each other to live their happiest, most fulfilling lives possible, and offer lessons anyone—married, dating, single—can use to give and receive lasting love.By Jacques Steinberg, Eric J. Furda. 2020
From an Ivy League dean and a college admissions expert, a guide to help parents support their children as they…
navigate their way to collegeThe College Conversation is a comprehensive resource for mapping the path through the college application process that provides practical advice and reassurance to keep both anxious parents and confused children sane and grounded. Rather than adding to the existing canon of "How to Get In" college guides or rankings, Eric Furda and Jacques Steinberg provide a step-by-step approach to having the tough conversations on this topic with less stress and more success.The book is organized around key discussions and themes that trace the chronological arc of admissions and financial aid--beginning before the assembly of a list of potential colleges and continuing through the receipt of decisions--with a final section that includes advice on the first year of college. The topics include preliminary conversations about the search, and specifically how parents can think about their children's interests and what kind of college would best suit them; choosing a college (based on its curriculum, culture, and community); writing the most effective essays; assessing acceptances, including considerations of finances and aid; and making the transition from high school to college life. The College Conversation will provide parents, students, and counselors with the credible, level-headed information often missing in this process, as well as a much-needed dash of perspective borne of experience.By Rachel Hollis. 2020
Fear. Grief. Loss. Betrayal. Rachel Hollis has felt all those things, and she knows you have too. Now, she takes…
you to the other side. With her signature humor, heartfelt honesty, and intimate true-life stories, #1 New York Times bestselling author Rachel Hollis shows readers how to seize difficult moments for the learning experiences they are and the value and growth they provide.Rachel Hollis sees you. As the millions who read her #1 New York Times bestsellers Girl, Wash Your Face and Girl, Stop Apologizing, attend her RISE conferences and follow her on social media know, she also wants to see you transform. When it comes to the “hard seasons” of life—the death of a loved one, divorce, loss of a job—transformation seems impossible when grief and uncertainty dominate your days. Especially when, as Didn’t See that Coming reveals, no one asks to have their future completely rearranged for them. But, as Rachel writes, it is up to you how you come through your pain—you can come through changed for the better, having learned and grown, or stuck in place where your identity becomes rooted in what hurt you. To Rachel, a life well-lived is one of purpose, focused only on the essentials. This is a small book about big feelings: inspirational, aspirational, and an anchor that shows that darkness can co-exist with the beautiful.By Pamela Christine. 2020
Una profesora, Lizzie está tratando de encontrar su felicidad. Tiene un nuevo comienzo, una nueva escuelar y sobretodo sin Paul.Lizzie…
comenzó a disfrutar de la vida nuevamente, saliendo y conociendo gente nueva. Entonces conoció a Sam. Él era bueno; era justo lo quenecesitaba.Él le presentó nuevas experiencias y la llevó a lugares donde nunca había estado. ¿Pero estaba ocultando un secreto?.Necesitaba saberlo.No podía pasar por lo que había pasado con Paul.Quería confiar en Sam.Estaba feliz ahora.Ahora,¿No era ella?If you are considering adoption, or are already headed down that path, this book of stories, scriptures, and prayers will…
inspire and encourage you along the way.Author Hillary Froning opens her heart and shares the story of how she and her husband, Rich Froning, adopted three precious children. Like talking to a close friend, Blessed by Adoption features short essays, Bible verses, and prayers that will move you and comfort you on your path to adoption. The book also features reflections to help you process your thoughts and feelings, as well as writing space for journaling about your adoption journey.Blessed by Adoption includes: • 30 essays by Hillary Froning about her adoption process, including finding a birth mom, completing home studies, hospital stays, telling friends and family, and all the blessings and challenges along the way • Bible verses and prayers to comfort you at every stage of adoption • Writing prompts and lined journaling pages to help you reflect on your adoption journeyBy Jennifer Basye Sander. 2020
A moving tribute to the true meaning of Christmas, this charming holiday collection features over fifty true stories that will…
make you laugh, cry and remind you that the greatest gifts in life can’t be wrapped.There’s something truly magical about Christmas. Combining two charming story collections—A Miracle Under the Christmas Tree and A Kiss Under the Mistletoe—into one beautiful package, these heartwarming stories of the kindness of strangers, reunions with loved ones and the blessings of answered prayers capture the spirit of the season.From a snowy impromptu game of Frisbee in the center of a holiday light display to a woman’s trepidation as she arrives home on Christmas Eve with crates of rescued shelter dogs, these stories will brighten the spirit of you and your family this season and for many future seasons to come. Some stories are funny, some are sweet and some are heartbreaking, but all of them show that if our hearts are open to giving and receiving love during this special season, incredible things can happen.By Owen Jones. 2020
Adolescentes E Suas Manias Torço para que as informações deste lhe seja útil, proveitosa e rentável. As informações nesse ebook…
sobre adolescentes e o que lhes afeta estão organizados em 17 capítulos com aproximadamente de 500 à 600 palavras cada. Eu espero que os que tenham interesse sobre essa fase da vida, se interessem pelo livro. Como um bônus, eu concedo a você permissão para usar o conteúdo em seu próprio website ou em seu próprio blog ou boletim informativo, embora seja melhor que você o reescreva com suas próprias palavras. Você também pode dividir o livro e revender os artigos. Na verdade, o único direito que você não tem é o de revender ou doar o livro da forma em que lhe foi entregue.By Bernard Levine. 2020
‘Eu só tenho a agradecer pelo seu amor e aqui está um lembrete do porquê eu te amo.’ Surpreenda sua…
pessoa amada hoje com uma incrível mensagem romântica. Neste livro único, você irá encontrar uma coleção de palavras românticas para expressar seus sen-timentos e afeição pela pessoa amada.By Bernard Levine. 2020
Que vous souhaitiez rencontrer cette personne spéciale qui vous aime vraiment, ou que vous souhaitiez être contacté au sujet d'une…
formidable nouvelle offre d'emploi, ou encore que votre souhait le plus cher ardent de recevoir par courrier la photo dédicacée de votre pop star préférée... Vous allez avoir droit à un véritable cadeau. Ce livre vous conduira dans une aventure passionnante remplie de trouvailles extraordinaires, de merveilleuses surprises et de joyaux vraiment rares. C'est un livre indispensable si vous voulez apporter une touche de classe et de passion à votre vie. Une chose est certaine : dans ce livre, vous apprendrez beaucoup, vous découvrirez de nouvelles activités et vous ne vous ennuierez jamais. Préparez-vous à vous gâter et à vous dorloter.By Bella DePaulo. 2020
Cet ouvrage de la célèbre spécialiste du célibat, Bella DePaulo, regroupe plusieurs écrits, parmi lesquels des articles précédemment publiés dans…
les magazines Time et Quartz, une rubrique extraite d’un ouvrage scientifique, ainsi que de nouveaux écrits de l’auteure. Il représente le second tome d’une paire d’ouvrages sur les familles non traditionnelles. Alors que beaucoup pourraient être tentés de considérer les célibataires sans enfants comme n’ayant aucune famille, le Professeur Bella DePaulo, loin de tolérer ce genre de marginalisation, fournit des arguments puissants pour démontrer le rôle significatif des célibataires dans la cohésion des familles, la création de nouveaux types de familles et la recherche de modes de vie innovants.