Couples & Family Therapy Arena

From Welfare to Childcare

What Happens to Young Children When Mothers Exchange Welfare for Work?

• Edited by Natasha Cabrera, Robert Hutchens, H. Elizabeth Peters

Although federal and state support for childcare has increased dramatically in response to welfare work requirements, low-income families are still facing difficulties balancing work and...

Published May 24th 2006 by Psychology Press.

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Acculturation and Parent-Child Relationships

Measurement and Development

• Edited by Marc H. Bornstein, Linda R. Cote

Although many researchers agree on a general definition of acculturation, the conceptualization and measurement of acculturation remain controversial. To address the issues, the National Institute...

Published February 7th 2006 by Routledge.

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Black Fathers

An Invisible Presence in America

• Edited by Michael E. Connor, Joseph White

In the parlance of social psychology, social work, and urban social scientists, African American fathers have often been described as "absent," "missing," "non-residential," "non-custodial," "unavailable,"...

Published January 4th 2006 by Routledge.

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Child Parent Relationship Therapy (CPRT)

A 10-Session Filial Therapy Model

• By Ed. D., Garry L. Landreth, Ph.D., Sue C. Bratton

This book offers a survey of the historical and theoretical development of the filial therapy approach and presents an overview of filial therapy training and...

Published November 18th 2005 by Routledge.

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Falling in Love

Why We Choose the Lovers We Choose

• By Ayala Malach Pines

Falling in Love is the first book to unlock the mysteries of how and why we fall in love. Renowned psychologist Ayala Pines shows us...

Published June 24th 2005 by Routledge.

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Conceptualizing and Measuring Father Involvement

• Edited by Randal D. Day, Michael E. Lamb

After decades of focusing on the mother's role in parenting, family studies researchers have turned their attention to the role of the father in parenting...

Published September 1st 2003 by Routledge.

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Falling in Love

Why We Choose the Lovers We Choose

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How mystical is love really? Sought after, capable of sending us to emotional extremes from abysmal misery to irrepressible joy, love is often perceived as...

Published August 17th 1999 by Routledge.

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Post-Natal Depression

Psychology, Science and the Transition to Motherhood

• By Paula Nicolson

Post-Natal Depression challenges the expectation that it is normal to be a 'happy mother'. It provides a radical critique of the traditional medical and social...

Published June 18th 1998 by Routledge.

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Re-thinking Abortion

Psychology, Gender and the Law

• By Mary Boyle

Women have been able to have abortions legally for over 30 years. Yet few books have considered it as anything other...

Published November 6th 1997 by Routledge.

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