An internationally acclaimed social scientist and family therapist offers timely and welcome news for the millions of separated and divorced parents: in more than 50 percent of divorces today, couples succeed in preserving their families for their children. This book provides practical guidelines for raising healthy, well-adjusted children during ...
Siince its publication more than a decade ago, this highly influential book has won international acclaim and pioneered a revolution in our understanding of female development psychology. Now, witth more than half a million copies of the first edition inprint, CArol Gillgan reflects on the impact and implictions of her findings in a new preface to ...
George Vaillant discusses these and other questions in terms of a clearly defined scheme of "adaptive mechanisms" that are rated mature, neurotic, immature, or psychotic, and illustrates, with case histories, each method of coping.
This major new book describes the parent-child interactions of the language acquisition years, revealing differences in the experiences of one- and two-year-olds from families across a spectrum of socioeconomic status. The authors show how the amount of time parents spend talking to their children in the early years of life directly influences ...
Based on extensive fieldwork, in-depth interviews, and surveys of 800 gay, lesbian, bisexual, and heterosexual residents of San Francisco. The authors offer data about the nature of bisexual attraction, what leads people to become bisexual, and how sexual preference can change over time.
A landmark work that reveals enormous shifts in some of this country's most fundamental values--the values by which the worth of human relationships, of love, of the family itself is measured.
What happens to a couple's relationship when baby makes three? Why do some relationships improve and other falter? Based on a 10 year study of 100 pairs of first-time parents, this book charts the tumultuous changes that greet the arrival of a first child, one of the most common but least understood of life's passages. Drawing on the candid and ...
Erik H. Erikson's concept of the life cycle delineates eight stages of psychological development through which each person progresses. The last stage, old age, challenges the individual to rework the tensions and rebalance the resulting strengths of all the earlier stages in an attempt to establish an integrity of the self that, while drawing ...
After 35 years as a psychotherapist in New York, Robert Akeret took his van on a long journey in an attempt to answer a single question: Did therapy make a real difference in his patients' lives? Did Charles, who fell madly in love with a circus polar bear, resist his fatal psychosexual attraction? Did Sasha, a prize-winning French novelist, ...
Based on Ahrons's "Binuclear Family Study" and cumulative findings in the field, this book illuminates the complex dilemmas couples face as they uncouple as spouses while remaining connected as parents. Additionally, it dispels the myth that divorce inevitably leaves emotionally troubled children in its wake.
This text, first published in 1983, examines the questions of whether alcoholism is a symptom or a disease, whether it is progressive, whether alcoholics differ from others before the onset of their alcoholism, and whether alcoholics can safely drink. Based on an evaluation of more than 600 individuals followed for over 40 years, Vaillant's ...
In "Closer to the Light", Dr Morse explored the near-death experiences of child survivors. Now he presents testimony from adults which he believes may serve to alter people's views on death and dying. The book sets out to prove that those who return from the brink of death are profoundly changed for the better, both spiritually and physically, for ...
When adolescent girls once assured and resilient, silence or censor themselves to maintain relationships, they often become depressed and develop psychological problems. But when adolescent girls remain outspoken, they are often excluded. If this is true in an affluent suburban setting, where much of the research took place, what of girls from ...
This provocative bestseller by the authors of Closer to the Light details the powerful effect of near-death experiences on people's lives. Based on the results of the largest such study ever done, Morse and Perry have found that people return from the brink of death profoundly changed for the better--spiritually and physically.
One of the myths about families in inner-city neighbourhoods is that they are characterized by poor parenting. The sociologist Frank Furstenberg and his colleagues explode this and other misconceptions about success, parenting, and socioeconomic advantage in this text. The book launches a series which focuses on how and why youth are able to ...
A new class of longitudinal data has emerged with the use of technological devices for scientific data collection. This class of data is called intensive longitudinal data (ILD). This volume features state-of-the-art applied statistical modelling strategies developed by leading statisticians and methodologists working in conjunction with ...
Breaking from traditional studies of women that focus on how women differ from men or use psychotherapy clients as research subjects, this book examines how "normal" women forge their individual identities. Presenting the stories of ordinary women who were interviewed first as college students and then 12 years later, living with the choices they ...
In 1972, Josselson was a young pscyhologist fascinated by the riddle of how a woman creates an identity and chooses one path over another in life--particularly in the face of the nascent femininst movement. Selecting at random 30 women in their last year of college, Josselson undertook a groundbreaking story that would follow these women over the ...
This explanation of crime and deviance over the life course is based on the re-analysis of a classic set of data: Sheldon and Eleanor Glueck's mid-century study of 500 delinquents and 500 non-delinquents from childhood to adulthood. More than five years ago, Robert Sampson and John Laub dusted off 60 cartons of the Gluecks' data that had been ...
Talented Teenagers is a fascinating and absorbing examination of what makes adolescents tick: what roles personality traits, family interactions, education, and the social environment play in a young person's motivation to develop his or her talent. Vivid descriptions in the students' own words bring the material to life. Parents, teachers, ...
A young black woman, her mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother tell about their childhoods and their lives, and how they all became teenage mothers.
Providing a new perspective on ADHD in adults, this compelling book analyzes findings from two major studies directed by leading authority Russell A. Barkley. Groundbreaking information is presented on the significant impairments produced by the disorder across major functional domains and life activities, including educational outcomes, work, ...
In an awe-inspiring photographic essay, art therapist Lisa Murray and photographer Billy Howard portray 25 childhood cancer patients as they express through art and words their feelings about the cancers that threatened them. The authors recently revisited the survivors, some of whom are now young adults embarking on careers and starting families. ...
Questions about how children fare in divided families have become as perplexing and urgent as they are common. In this work on custody arrangements, the developmental psychologist Eleanor Maccoby and the legal scholar Robert Mnookin consider these questions and their ramifications for society. This book examines the social and legal realities of ...
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