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Subjects covered by this Arena include: Parenting and Families, Childcare, and Child Abuse.
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Serving Military Families in the 21st Century
This book introduces readers to military families, their resilience, and the challenges of military life.
Designed as a textbook for advanced undergraduate or graduate courses on military families, or as a supplement for courses on the family, marriage and family, stress and coping or family systems taught in family studies, human development, clinical or counseling psychology, sociology, social work or nursing, this book also appeals to helping professionals who work with military families.
A volume in the Textbooks in Family Studies series.
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Father-Daughter Relationships: Contemporary Research and Issues
The first research-based text that focuses on the impact of the father–daughter relationship, this provocative book examines the factors that can strengthen or weaken these relationships and the impact that these relationships have on society.
The research is brought to life with compelling personal stories from fathers and daughters, including well-known celebrities and politicians.
Intended as a supplemental text for upper-level undergraduate or graduate courses on father-daughter relationships and/or parenting taught in human development, family studies, psychology, sociology, counseling, social work, and women’s studies, this practical book also appeals to mental health practitioners, social workers, legal professionals, and school counselors interested in these relationships.
Families with Futures: Family Studies Into the 21st Century, 2nd Edition
Noted for its interdisciplinary approach to family studies, Families with Futures provides an engaging, contemporary look at the discipline's theories, methods, essential topics, and career opportunities.
Featuring strong coverage of theories and methods, readers explore family concepts and processes through a positive prism. Throughout, families are viewed as challenged but resilient.
This is an ideal text for upper-level undergraduate and lower-level graduate courses in family studies, family ecology, and family science offered in departments of family and consumer sciences, human development, psychology, and sociology.
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Latest Brochure: Family Studies & Social & Emotional Development 2011
The Routledge/Psychology Press "Family Studies and Social & Emotional Development 2011" catalog is available.
This brochure includes new and recent books in Family Studies and Social & Emotional Development from Routledge and Psychology Press.
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